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Shamil Abdurakhimov

UFC 5-6Pro 20-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Shamil Abdurakhimov’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

UFC recordUFC 5-6 first fight 2015-04-04 · last fight 2023-01-21
Pro record20-8
Current streak4 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age45
Height6' 3"
StanceOrthodox

6' 3" orthodox decision fighter campaigning at Heavyweight. 5 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 3 decision.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

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 social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameAbrek
NationalityRussia
Hometown (per Sherdog)Makhachkala, Dagestan
CampPeresvet Fight Team
Height6' 3"
Reach76"
StanceOrthodox
Age45
Date of birthSep 02, 1981
Weight235 lbs.
Pro record20-8
UFC recordUFC 5-6 first fight 2015-04-04 · last fight 2023-01-21
Finish split5 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 3 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Shamil Abdurakhimov has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Shamil Abdurakhimov in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Heavyweight233 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 16 November 2016#11–15 · from the table of 29 January 2018#11–15 · from the table of 5 March 2018No table on record · Apr 2018 – May 2018#11–15 · from the table of 16 May 2018No table on record · Aug 2018 – Aug 2018#11–15 · from the table of 29 August 2018No table on record · Oct 2018 – Oct 2018#11–15 · from the table of 31 October 2018#6–10 · from the table of 22 April 2019No table on record · Nov 2019 – Dec 2019#6–10 · from the table of 10 December 2019No table on record · Dec 2019 – Jan 2020#6–10 · from the table of 20 January 2020No table on record · Mar 2020 – May 2020#11–15 · from the table of 11 May 2020#6–10 · from the table of 31 August 2020No table on record · Dec 2020 – Jan 2021#6–10 · from the table of 18 January 2021No table on record · Dec 2021 – Jan 2022#6–10 · from the table of 17 January 2022#11–15 · from the table of 21 March 2022No table on record · Dec 2022 – Jan 2023#11–15 · from the table of 17 January 2023First rankedPeak #7Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#7Heavyweight · Mar 2021
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Jan 2023

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 6 October 2026

A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.

Career rates facts

Career averages over Shamil Abdurakhimov’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min2.41
Striking accuracy44%
Strikes absorbed / min3.02
Striking defence55%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.01
Takedown accuracy23%
Takedown defence45%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.10

FightIQ Metrics

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.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Heavyweight.
Striking44
Defence68
Grappling / TD17
Cardio15
Chin21
Fight IQ33

Our calls on Shamil Abdurakhimov’s fights

We have not called one of Shamil Abdurakhimov’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 1 of Shamil Abdurakhimov’s fights, 1 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Shamil Abdurakhimov

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD59.4%ACC 37%BODY18.7%ACC 65%LEGS21.9%ACC 73%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 59% head / 19% body / 22% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
59.4% acc 37%−7.6 vs field
BODY
18.7% acc 65%+0.2 vs field
LEGS
21.9% acc 73%+7.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 67%CLINCH 24%GROUND 9%

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.

11 UFC fights · 251 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Shamil Abdurakhimov

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

1.01takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.01 landed per 15 minutes — −1.38 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS33
1.01 / 15m−1.38 vs field
ATTEMPTS56
4.39 / 15m−0.67 vs field
ACCURACY10
23%−28pp vs field
SUB ATT7
0.10 / 15m−1.61 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.29 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

Ranked in Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 20-8. In the UFC: 5-6. Shamil Abdurakhimov’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.

Full UFC career — 11 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2023-01-21LJailton AlmeidaKO/TKOR2UFC 283: Teixeira vs. Hill
2022-03-19LSergei PavlovichKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Aspinall
2021-09-25LChris DaukausKO/TKOR2UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega
2019-09-07LCurtis BlaydesKO/TKOR2UFC 242: Khabib vs. Poirier
2019-04-20WMarcin TyburaKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Oleinik
2018-09-15WAndrei ArlovskiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Oleinik
2017-11-25WChase ShermanKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Gastelum
2016-12-09LDerrick LewisKO/TKOR4UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Abdurakhimov
2016-10-01WWalt HarrisDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson
2016-02-21WAnthony HamiltonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs Cowboy
2015-04-04LTimothy JohnsonKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Mendes vs Lamas

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.

On the map

The 11 cities Shamil Abdurakhimov 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.

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 1 bout, 2019Albany, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2016Fairfax, Virginia, USA — 1 bout, 2015Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2021London, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2022Moscow, Moscow, Russia — 1 bout, 2018Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA — 1 bout, 2016Portland, Oregon, USA — 1 bout, 2016Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 1 bout, 2023Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia — 1 bout, 2019Shanghai, Hebei, China — 1 bout, 2017Hometown: Makhachkala, Dagestan

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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