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Saparbeg Safarov

UFC 1-3Pro 9-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Saparbeg Safarov’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder

UFC recordUFC 1-3 first fight 2016-12-09 · last fight 2020-03-07
Pro record9-3
Current streak1 loss
Last 4 (UFC)L W L L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age40
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 1 UFC win — 1 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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. 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.

Nicknamepending
Nationalitypending
Hometownpending
Camppending
Height6' 1"
Reach78"
StanceOrthodox
Age40
Date of birthOct 14, 1986
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record9-3
UFC recordUFC 1-3 first fight 2016-12-09 · last fight 2020-03-07
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Saparbeg Safarov’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 / min4.03
Striking accuracy48%
Strikes absorbed / min2.96
Striking defence47%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.52
Takedown accuracy41%
Takedown defence33%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking68
Defence53
Grappling / TD62
Cardio limited sample72
Chin47
Fight IQ60

Strike zones

Strike zones

Saparbeg Safarov

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

HEAD81.7%ACC 44%BODY8.3%FIELD 19%LEGS10.0%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Ground striker 42% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
81.7% acc 44%+17.5 vs field
BODY
8.3%−10.8 vs field
LEGS
10.0%−6.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 50%CLINCH 8%GROUND 42%

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.

4 UFC fights · 120 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Saparbeg Safarov

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

2.52takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.52 landed per 15 minutes — +0.20 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS70
2.52 / 15m+0.20 vs field
ATTEMPTS66
6.15 / 15m+0.64 vs field
ACCURACY53
41%−3pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.60 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.25 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 Light Heavyweight

Deep stats facts

Career and last-five-fight figures from round-by-round UFC records, with where each ranks among every UFC fighter who has fought enough to be ranked. Tap a stat name for the full leaderboard.

 CareerLast 5 fights
Striking
Strikes landedSignificant strikes landed per minute of fight time.
4.03/minsmall sample (4 fights)
4.03/min#490 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
2.96/minsmall sample (4 fights)
2.96/min#579 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
48.2%small sample (4 fights)
48.2%#656 of 1,752 ranked in the UFC
Durability
Knockdowns per 100 head strikesKnockdowns suffered for every 100 head strikes absorbed. Lower means more punishment taken without going down.
1.54small sample (4 fights)
1.54small sample (4 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
25%small sample (4 fights)
25%#1,120 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
33.3%small sample (4 fights)
33.3%small sample (4 fights)
Get-up speedSeconds the opponent stays in control after each takedown landed on this fighter. Lower means back on their feet faster.
69 secsmall sample (4 fights)
69 secsmall sample (4 fights)
Cardio and late rounds
Round-3 pace kept†Round-3 striking pace as a share of round-1 pace. 100% means no fade.
106%small sample (1 fight)
106%small sample (1 fight)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.00 per 15 minsmall sample (4 fights)
0.00 per 15 min#1,547 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
0%small sample (4 fights)
0%#1,532 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%small sample (4 fights)
0%#1,476 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC

† Needs round-by-round data, which is missing for some UFC bouts. Those fights are left out, not estimated.

Every figure is built from UFC fights that have round-by-round data. Some older bouts do not, and are left out rather than estimated. Figures to 2020-03-07.

Recent form

Pro record: 9-3. In the UFC: 1-3. Saparbeg Safarov’s last 4 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.

Post-fight bonuses

1 post-fight bonus since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2016-12-09FOTNFight of the NightGian VillanteUFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Abdurakhimov

The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.

Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 20 of 611 Fight of the Night, 274 of 1,368 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.

Full UFC career — 4 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2020-03-07LRodolfo VieiraSubmissionR1UFC 248: Adesanya vs. Romero
2019-03-16WNicolae NegumereanuDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Till vs. Masvidal
2018-02-10LTyson PedroSubmissionR1UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold
2016-12-09LGian VillanteKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Abdurakhimov

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 4 cities Saparbeg Safarov has fought a UFC bout in. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Albany, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2016Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2020London, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2019Perth, Western Australia, Australia — 1 bout, 2018

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

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