Blagoy Ivanov Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	#14Alexandr Romanov Heavyweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Magomedov	Jul 1, 2023
L	#10Marcin Tybura Heavyweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Spivac	Feb 4, 2023
W	Marcos Rogerio de Lima Heavyweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje	May 7, 2022
L	#13Augusto Sakai Heavyweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Woodley vs. Burns	May 30, 2020
L	#5Derrick Lewis Heavyweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC 244: Masvidal vs. Diaz	Nov 2, 2019
W	#11Tai Tuivasa Heavyweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes	Jun 8, 2019
W	#5Ben Rothwell Heavyweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Dos Santos	Mar 9, 2019
L	#7Junior Dos Santos Heavyweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Ivanov	Jul 14, 2018

Outside the UFC

16-2, 1 NCacross 19 bouts · 13 promotions · wins by 6 KO · 6 sub · 4 decBellator · PFL · BFC · WSOF 35 · WSOF 31 +8

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
L	Sergey Bilostenniy15-4	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	PFL	Apr 4, 2024
W	Caio Alencar12-5	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	PFL	Nov 2, 2017
W	Shawn Jordan19-9	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	1:43	WSOF 35	Mar 18, 2017
W	Josh Copeland18-7-1	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	WSOF 31	Jun 17, 2016
W	Derrick Mehmen19-10	KO/TKO	Punches	R2	4:33	WSOF 24	Oct 17, 2015
W	Smealinho Rama11-5-1	Submission	Guillotine Choke	R3	1:17	WSOF 21	Jun 5, 2015
L	Alexander Volkov40-11	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R2	1:08	Bellator	May 17, 2014
W	Lavar Johnson18-10	Submission	Keylock	R1	4:08	Bellator	Apr 11, 2014
W	Rich Hale23-7-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Bellator	Mar 7, 2014
W	Keith Bell10-9-1	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	3:59	Bellator	Nov 22, 2013
W	Manny Lara4-4	Submission	Guillotine Choke	R1	1:17	Bellator	Sep 13, 2013
W	Ricco Rodriguez54-27	KO/TKO	Retirement	R3	3:33	CMMAT	Dec 24, 2011
W	Zak Jensen10-10	Submission	Guillotine Choke	R2	2:35	BFC	Oct 1, 2011
W	William Penn8-5	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	2:58	BFC	Mar 26, 2011
W	Svetoslav Zahariev8-5	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	3:33	RPC 9	Oct 9, 2010
W	Kazuyuki Fujita18-14	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	Sengoku	Aug 2, 2009
NC	Ilir Latifi16-9	No Contest	Ring Broke	R1	0:55	RPC 2	May 17, 2008
W	Jancho Dimitrov0-1	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	2:30	RPC 1	Mar 9, 2008
W	Kamen Georgiev28-14-1	KO/TKO	Corner Stoppage	R1	5:00	FM	Oct 13, 2007

Non-UFC bouts (regional/other promotions) and Dana White’s Contender Series — shown for context only, excluded from Schedule Score, striking/grappling rates, and every UFC-scoped metric.

Method of victory & defeat

KO / TKO

6 wins, 0 losses

W6

L0

Submission

6 wins, 1 loss

W6

L1

Decision

7 wins, 6 losses

W7

L6

Finishes

UFC KOs

0

Below avg · 18%Heavyweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.13

Below avg · 0.24Heavyweight

UFC submissions

0

Below avg · 8%Heavyweight

Submission attempts / fight

0.13

Below avg · 0.25Heavyweight

KO history

Knockout power and chin durability (UFC; clean KOs only).

Blagoy Ivanov

PowerChin

Knockout rate

0%

0 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

1

0.30 per 100 head

Clean KO losses

0

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

0

0.00 per 100 head

Chin gauges use a league scale: green = clean record, red = bottom ~10% of UFC fighters (4+ KO losses · 6+ knockdowns absorbed).

Never finished by strikes · Never submittedin the UFC

Decision behavior

Judging

8 scorecards on file

Blagoy Ivanov

Scorecard luck

Wrong end of the cards

Won just 0 of 2 coin-flip decisions — repeatedly on the wrong end of close calls. Judges have given them 5 of 8 rounds they disagreed on (63%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

0–2

Won – Lost

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

5–3

Won – Lost

63% went their way

Unanimous6 decisions · 75%

3W3L

Split2 decisions · 25%

2L

Majority

None

10-8 rounds

None scoredno 10-8 rounds in this fighter’s decisions

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallC48th

40%422 / 1,042

Striking accuracy

53%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min-0.95 differential

Landed3.25

Absorbed4.20

57%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

-7%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head78%67th329
Body20%59th85
Leg2%30th8

Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share of strikes

Sig. strikes by position

89%Standing

Standing89%377
Clinch9%37
Ground2%8

Striking zones

Per-15-minute breakdown — where this fighter lands, and where they get hit.

UFC only

Blagoy Ivanov

Landed per 15

Head

B

69th

38.0

69th

Body

B

60th

9.8

60th

Leg

F

16th

0.9

16th

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Absorbed per 15

Head

D

36th

36.7

36th

Body

F

13th

15.8

13th

Leg

F

24th

10.5

24th

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Career totals — landed / attempted

Landed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	38.0	329	933	35%
Body	9.8	85	101	84%
Leg	0.9	8	8	100%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	36.7	318	876	36%
Body	15.8	137	196	70%
Leg	10.5	91	102	89%

UFCStats career rates, per 15 minutes. Percentiles vs the division; absorbed is inverted so higher is better.

Grappling

Per-15-minute breakdown of takedowns, submissions, and ground control.

UFC only

Blagoy Ivanov

40%

Takedown accuracy

62%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min-0.6 min net

On top1.3

On bottom1.9

Offense

Takedowns

C

50th

0.7

50th

TD accuracy

C

55th

40%

55th

Sub attempts

C

58th

0.1

58th

Control

D

41st

1.3 min

41st

Defense

TD defense

C

47th

62%

47th

Controlled

1.9 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	6 / 15
Submission attempts	1
Control time	11:02

Defense

TDs defended	8 / 13
Control absorbed	16:23

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (130min total). Value colors reflect the per-15 rate’s percentile against the current weight class baseline; raw totals without a division reference stay neutral.

Pace & fade

Round-by-round work rate, and whether they fade.

UFC only

Blagoy Ivanov

8 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 130 min

124%

R3 pace · 8 bouts

Ivanov builds (+9% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Ivanov lifts to 124% of round-1 output by round 3 (8 bouts).

Ivanov ▲ BUILDSOutput / min

Faded points are drawn from a single bout that reached that round, so they’re less reliable than the solid points averaged over many fights.

Rounds backed by fewer than 2 bouts are drawn smaller and dimmed with an n= count — a deep round seen in one or two fights is a thin sample, not a settled rate. Per-round bout counts are in the breakdown below.

Full per-round breakdown

What drives the pace · per round

The composite output line above blends these three inputs — splitting them out shows whether the work rate is built on striking volume, takedown pressure, or top control, and which input fades.

Sig. strikes landed

Ivanovlanded / min

Takedown attempts

Ivanovattempts / min

Control time

Ivanov% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	3.1	2.5	2.9	0.10	6%	8
R2	5.1	4.1	4.8	0.17	11%	8
R3	3.8	3.1	4.5	0.10	11%	8
R4	3.0	3.0	4.0	0.00	0%	1
R5	3.4	3.4	7.4	0.00	0%	1

Output / minis the headline work rate — significant strikes landed, plus 3 per takedown attempt, plus one per 15 seconds of control — so a takedown-and-grind round isn’t scored as idle the way bare striking volume would. The remaining columns are its components. Per-round rates use UFCStats per-round data (available for ~95% of bouts since 2008). Each round’s rates are averaged only over bouts that reached that round, so the bout count shrinks as rounds deepen. The final round of a finished fight is pro-rated by its actual length.

Schedule Score

Opponent quality, ranked across the UFC. Recent fights weighted heavier.

UFC only

Blagoy Ivanov

8 resolved UFC bouts · 7 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

55/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

A+

92nd

71%

92nd

Win quality

F

15th

27%

15th

Opponent quality distribution

Every UFC bout, grouped by who the opponent was at the time.

4

Top-5Ranked #1–#5 at the time
Top-15Ranked #6–#15 at the time

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Top-5	4	2-2	50%
Top-15	4	1-3	25%

Highest-quality opponents

Toughest opponents on the scheduleScore, scored at the time of the fight.

All bouts — opponent quality bout-by-bout

Res	Opponent	Tier	Score	Date
L	Alexandr Romanov#14	Top-15	64	Jul 1, 2023
L	Marcin Tybura#10	Top-15	72	Feb 4, 2023
W	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	Top-15	58	May 7, 2022
L	Augusto Sakai#13	Top-15	68	May 30, 2020
L	Derrick Lewis#5	Top-5	84	Nov 2, 2019
W	Tai Tuivasa#11	Top-5	78	Jun 8, 2019
W	Ben Rothwell#5	Top-5	80	Mar 9, 2019
L	Junior Dos Santos#7	Top-5	84	Jul 14, 2018

Per-bout quality scoring: champion = 100; same-division ranks 1–5 = 90 → 78 linear; ranks 6–15 = 75 → 60 linear; cross-division champion = 78; cross-division ranked = 45; title-fight challenger (no rank signal) = 50, bumped to 65 when opp had an elite career UFC record at the time. Unranked opponents are scored on UFC record-at-time (long-tenured vet 60, contender-level 45, established 30, building 18, unproven 8). P4P top-10 at time adds +5; top-3 adds +8 (capped at 100). The Schedule Score combines schedule strength (65%) and quality wins (35%), then is held toward a rookie baseline for fighters with limited UFC experience so a thin résumé reads honestly low.

Career cohorts

8 resolved UFC bouts

Performance broken down by situation — camp length, response to the previous result, title-fight presence, and rematches. Computed across every completed UFC bout.

Camp length

Days between fights

Short turnaround

< 100 days

1-0

1 bout

Typical camp

100–180 days

0-2

2 bouts

Long layoff

> 180 days

2-2

4 bouts

UFC debut

first UFC bout

0-1

1 bout

Post-result bounce

Performance based on the previous UFC result

After a loss

next bout after a defeat

2-2

4 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

1-2

3 bouts

First UFC bout

no precedent

0-1

1 bout

Title fights

Performance with a belt on the line

All title fights

as challenger or champion

—

As champion

defending the belt

—

As challenger

fighting for the belt

—

Rematches

Performance when meeting an opponent again

All rematches

any second meeting

—

Revenge bouts

lost the first meeting

—

Encore bouts

won the first meeting

—

Activity & layoff

Last fight, activity, and divisional context.

Time since last UFC bout

2y 3mo

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Blagoy Ivanov

Extended layoff

2y 3mosince last bout

vs Sergey Bilostenniy · Apr 4, 2024

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 1-0As underdog 2-5

41.5

DK avg

37.3

Median

64.4

Ceiling

17.6

Floor

13%

Boom

25%

Bust

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