Built from Oleg Taktarov’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler
6' 0" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Heavyweight. 6 UFC wins — 5 submission, 1 decision.
The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.
| Nickname | The Russian Bear |
| Nationality | Russia |
| Hometown (per Sherdog) | Nizhny Novgorod |
| Camp | Freelance |
| Height | 6' 0" |
| Reach | pending |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 59 |
| Date of birth | Aug 26, 1967 |
| Weight | 210 lbs. |
| Pro record | 17-5-2 |
| UFC record | UFC 6-2 (1 draw/NC) first fight 1995-04-07 · last fight 1995-12-16 |
| Finish split | 6 UFC wins — 5 submission, 1 decision |
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Heavyweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on them. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
No takedown data
UFCStats records no takedown or submission activity for this fighter in either direction — usually a fighter with no UFC bout on the tape. A row of zeroes would read as a measured weakness; this is an absence, and we show it as one.
Pro record: 17-5-2. In the UFC: 6-2-1. Oleg Taktarov’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.
Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995-12-16 | L | Dan Severn | Decision (unanimous) | R2 | UFC - Ultimate Ultimate '95 |
| 1995-12-16 | W | Marco Ruas | Decision (unanimous) | R1 | UFC - Ultimate Ultimate '95 |
| 1995-12-16 | W | Dave Beneteau | Submission | R1 | UFC - Ultimate Ultimate '95 |
| 1995-09-08 | D | Ken Shamrock | Other | R2 | UFC 7: The Brawl in Buffalo |
| 1995-07-14 | W | Anthony Macias | Submission | R1 | UFC 6: Clash of the Titans |
| 1995-07-14 | W | Dave Beneteau | Submission | R1 | UFC 6: Clash of the Titans |
| 1995-07-14 | W | David Abbott | Submission | R1 | UFC 6: Clash of the Titans |
| 1995-04-07 | L | Dan Severn | TKO (doctor) | R1 | UFC 5: The Return of the Beast |
| 1995-04-07 | W | Ernie Verdicia | Submission | R1 | UFC 5: The Return of the Beast |
Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.
The 4 cities Oleg Taktarov has fought a UFC bout in and the hometown on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.