Grigory Popov Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	Davey Grant Bantamweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Zabit vs. Kattar	Nov 9, 2019
L	#15Eddie Wineland Bantamweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head At Distance	R2	4:47	UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes	Jun 8, 2019

Outside the UFC

14-3across 17 bouts · 8 promotions · wins by 5 KO · 3 sub · 6 decMFP · FEFoMP · WLF · Open Fighting Championship · NFC 33 +3

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
L	Artem Butko6-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Open Fighting Championship	Apr 26, 2025
W	Serzhan Sapargaliev5-10-1	KO/TKO	Punches	R3	0:00	NFC 33	Aug 27, 2021
W	Baxier Tenuliuer4-6	KO/TKO	Leg Kicks	R1	2:08	WLF	Oct 26, 2018
W	Deyu Wang4-4	Submission	Gogoplata	R2	2:32	MFP 214	Dec 2, 2017
W	Yundong Chen2-7	KO/TKO	Punches	R2	0:10	WLF	Nov 11, 2017
W	Seong Jae Kim9-10-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	MFP	Feb 25, 2017
W	Getu Hexi11-7	KO/TKO	Head Kick	R3	—	Kingway & Beijing Combat	Sep 29, 2016
W	Qileng Aori26-13	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R2	4:35	WLF	Mar 13, 2016
W	Vando de Almeida4-7	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	MFP	Feb 28, 2016
W	Rashad Gasanov0-4	Submission	Gogoplata	R1	4:52	MFP	Nov 28, 2015
W	Sergey Kovgarenya0-1	Decision	Split	R2	5:00	MFP	Oct 31, 2015
L	Alexey Polpudnikov36-13-1	KO/TKO	Punch	R1	2:58	FEFoMP and Russian MMA Union	Dec 20, 2014
W	Arip Yakubov6-2	Decision	Unanimous	R2	5:00	FEFoMP	Nov 22, 2014
W	Abdulmutalib Gairbekov21-4-1	Decision	Unanimous	R2	5:00	FEFoMP	Dec 15, 2012
W	Amir Abdullaev7-3	Decision	Unanimous	R2	5:00	FEFoMP	Nov 24, 2012
W	Evgeny Ryazanov24-18	KO/TKO	Punches	R3	3:03	FEFoMP	Oct 6, 2012
L	Alim Kokov5-0	Submission	Choke	R1	5:00	MFP	Sep 14, 2012

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

5 wins, 2 losses

W5

L2

Submission

3 wins, 1 loss

W3

L1

Decision

6 wins, 2 losses

W6

L2

KO history

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

Grigory Popov

PowerChin

Knockout rate

—

No UFC win on record

Knockdowns dealt

—

No UFC win on record

Clean KO losses

1

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

2

3.57 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 submittedin the UFC

Decision behavior

Judging

1 scorecard on file

Grigory Popov

Scorecard luck

Wrong end of the cards

Won just 0 of 1 coin-flip decision — repeatedly on the wrong end of close calls. Judges have given them 0 of 1 round they disagreed on (0%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

0–1

Won – Lost

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

0–1

Won – Lost

0% went their way

Unanimous

None

Split1 decision · 100%

1L

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

OverallD41st

37%90 / 238

Striking accuracy

55%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min-0.57 differential

Landed3.63

Absorbed4.20

50%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

-8%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Striking zones

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

UFC only

Grigory Popov

Landed per 15

Head

D

34th

24.2

34th

Body

A+

91st

20.6

91st

Leg

B

69th

9.7

69th

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

C

47th

33.9

47th

Body

F

8th

21.2

8th

Leg

C

54th

7.9

54th

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	24.2	40	154	26%
Body	20.6	34	61	56%
Leg	9.7	16	23	70%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	33.9	56	161	35%
Body	21.2	35	58	60%
Leg	7.9	13	15	87%

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

Grigory Popov

0%

Takedown accuracy

45%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min-3.2 min net

On top0.6

On bottom3.8

Offense

Takedowns

C

44th

0.0

44th

TD accuracy

0%

Sub attempts

C

55th

0.0

55th

Control

C

42nd

0.6 min

42nd

Defense

TD defense

D

28th

45%

28th

Controlled

3.8 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	0 / 1
Submission attempts	0
Control time	0:59

Defense

TDs defended	5 / 11
Control absorbed	6:20

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (25min 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

Grigory Popov

2 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 25 min

—

< 2 bouts to R3

Popov hasn't reached the third round in enough UFC bouts to read a reliable pace pattern — most of their fights end early. The round-by-round pace below is shown for what rounds there are.

PopovOutput / 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

Popovlanded / min

Takedown attempts

Popovattempts / min

Control time

Popov% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	3.6	3.5	3.9	0.00	2%	2
R2	4.5	3.9	5.9	0.10	8%	2
R3	3.4	3.4	1.4	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

Grigory Popov

2 resolved UFC bouts · 1 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

31/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

A

80th

52%

80th

Win quality

F

1st

0%

1st

Limited UFC sample (2 bouts). The headline Schedule Score is held toward a rookie baseline until a fighter has 6+ UFC bouts — a thin UFC résumé hasn’t yet proven a strong schedule. The component bars above are not down-weighted.

Opponent quality distribution

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

1

Top-5Ranked #1–#5 at the time
Contender-level8+ UFC wins entering the bout, ≥.55 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Top-5	1	0-1	0%
Contender-level	1	0-1	0%

Highest-quality opponents

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

Pre-UFC opposition

Moderate

Opponents' combined record

170-110-4

.607 win rate

Winning-record opponents

9 of 17

carried winning pro records

Pro bouts faced

17

all opponents have records on file

A descriptive read of the non-UFC slate from opponents’ full career pro records — not a UFC-grade Schedule Score.

All bouts — opponent quality bout-by-bout

Res	Opponent	Tier	Score	Date
L	Davey Grant	Contender-level	32	Nov 9, 2019
L	Eddie Wineland#15	Top-5	74	Jun 8, 2019

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

2 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

—

Typical camp

100–180 days

0-1

1 bout

Long layoff

> 180 days

—

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

0-1

1 bout

After a win

next bout after a win

—

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

1y 2mo

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Grigory Popov

Layoff

1y 2mosince last bout

vs Artem Butko · Apr 26, 2025

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 0-1As underdog 0-1

26.1

DK avg

30.2

Median

30.2

Ceiling

22.0

Floor

0%

Boom

0%

Bust

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