Khamzat Chimaev Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	#3Sean StricklandTitle Middleweight	Decision	Split	R5	5:00	UFC 328: Chimaev vs. Strickland	May 9, 2026
W	CDricus Du PlessisTitle Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC 319: Du Plessis vs. Chimaev	Aug 16, 2025
W	#3Robert Whittaker Middleweight	Submission	Rear Naked Choke	R1	3:34	UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway	Oct 26, 2024
W	Kamaru Usman Middleweight	Decision	Majority	R3	5:00	UFC 294: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski 2	Oct 21, 2023
W	Kevin Holland Catch Weight	Submission	D'Arce Choke On Ground	R1	2:13	UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson	Sep 10, 2022
W	#2Gilbert Burns Welterweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie	Apr 9, 2022
W	#11Li Jingliang Welterweight	Submission	Rear Naked Choke	R1	3:16	UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira	Oct 30, 2021
W	Gerald Meerschaert Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head At Distance	R1	0:17	UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Woodley	Sep 19, 2020
W	Rhys McKee Welterweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head From Mount	R1	3:09	UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till	Jul 25, 2020
W	John Phillips Middleweight	Submission	D'Arce Choke On Ground	R2	1:12	UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Ige	Jul 15, 2020

Outside the UFC

6-0across 6 bouts · 6 promotions · wins by 4 KO · 2 subBrave CF 27 · Brave CF 23 · Brave CF 20 · Brave CF 18 · FCR 3 +1

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Mzwandile Hlongwa6-6	Submission	Brabo Choke	R2	1:15	Brave CF 27	Oct 4, 2019
W	Ikram Aliskerov17-2	KO/TKO	Punch	R1	2:26	Brave CF 23	Apr 19, 2019
W	Sidney Wheeler7-4	KO/TKO	Submission to Punches	R1	0:35	Brave CF 20	Dec 22, 2018
W	Marko Kisic10-5	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	3:12	Brave CF 18	Nov 16, 2018
W	Ole Magnor8-9	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	4:23	FCR 3	Aug 18, 2018
W	Gard Olve Sagen3-2	KO/TKO	Punches	R2	0:00	IRFA	May 26, 2018

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.

Amateur

3-0across 3 amateur bouts · 3 promotionsNordic Warrior · Kaisho Battle · FCR 1

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Adnan Music0-2	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	0:57	Nordic Warrior	Apr 14, 2018
W	Danijel Grbic1-3	Submission	Guillotine Choke	R2	2:20	Kaisho Battle	Nov 18, 2017
W	Khaled Laallam7-1	Submission	Brabo Choke	R2	2:06	FCR 1	Sep 10, 2017

Amateur (pre-professional) bouts — shown for context only and excluded from the professional record and every UFC-scoped metric.

Method of victory & defeat

KO / TKO

6 wins, 0 losses

W6

L0

Submission

6 wins, 0 losses

W6

L0

Decision

3 wins, 1 loss

W3

L1

Finishes

UFC KOs

2

Above avg · 15%Middleweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.20

Below avg · 0.24Middleweight

UFC submissions

4

Above avg · 8%Middleweight

Submission attempts / fight

0.90

Above avg · 0.39Middleweight

KO history

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

Khamzat Chimaev

PowerChin

Knockout rate

20%

2 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

2

0.66 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

4 scorecards on file

Khamzat Chimaev

Scorecard luck

Even on close calls

Split their 2 coin-flip decisions evenly — no edge either way on the cards. Judges have given them 0 of 3 rounds they disagreed on (0%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

1–1

Won – Lost

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

0–3

Won – Lost

0% went their way

Unanimous2 decisions · 50%

2W

Split1 decision · 25%

1L

Majority1 decision · 25%

1W

10-8 rounds

6 rounds total

6

Won

0

Lost

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallB63rd

54%396 / 730

Striking accuracy

52%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min+1.03 differential

Landed4.01

Absorbed2.98

70%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

+6%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head76%81st301
Body15%58th58
Leg9%52nd37

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

Sig. strikes by position

56%Standing

Standing56%221
Clinch3%13
Ground41%162

Striking zones

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

UFC only

Khamzat Chimaev

Landed per 15

Head

A+

87th

45.8

87th

Body

C

55th

8.8

55th

Leg

C

44th

5.6

44th

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

29th

37.2

29th

Body

A

77th

5.3

77th

Leg

A+

86th

2.1

86th

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	45.8	301	588	51%
Body	8.8	58	104	56%
Leg	5.6	37	38	97%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	37.2	245	548	45%
Body	5.3	35	48	73%
Leg	2.1	14	17	82%

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

Khamzat Chimaev

58%

Takedown accuracy

88%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min+7.9 min net

On top8.5

On bottom0.6

Offense

Takedowns

A+

94th

5.3

94th

TD accuracy

A

80th

58%

80th

Sub attempts

A

81st

1.4

81st

Control

A+

93rd

8.5 min

93rd

Defense

TD defense

A

76th

88%

76th

Controlled

0.6 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	35 / 60
Submission attempts	9
Control time	55:47

Defense

TDs defended	7 / 8
Control absorbed	4:00

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (99min 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

Khamzat Chimaev

10 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 99 min

108%

R3 pace · 4 bouts

Chimaev holds steady (+2% per round through round 5). Within fights that reached round 3, Chimaev lifts to 108% of round-1 output by round 3 (4 bouts).

Chimaev — HOLDSOutput / min

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

Chimaevlanded / min

Takedown attempts

Chimaevattempts / min

Control time

Chimaev% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	9.7	4.2	0.6	0.69	86%	10
R2	5.2	3.0	3.9	0.33	32%	5
R3	7.8	5.3	5.5	0.35	36%	4
R4	8.3	4.1	3.6	0.70	53%	2
R5	8.8	3.1	4.1	1.30	44%	2

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

Khamzat Chimaev

10 resolved UFC bouts · 5 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

83/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

A+

94th

73%

94th

Win quality

A+

98th

86%

98th

Opponent quality distribution

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

3

1

2

ChampionHeld the title in this weight class at the time
Top-5Ranked #1–#5 at the time
Top-15Ranked #6–#15 at the time
Cross-div champHeld a title in another weight class at the time
Cross-div rankedRanked #1–#15 in another division at the time
Building3+ UFC fights, ≥.40 win rate
UnprovenFewer than 3 fights, or sub-.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Champion	3	2-1	67%
Top-5	1	1-0	100%
Top-15	1	1-0	100%
Cross-div champ	1	1-0	100%
Cross-div ranked	1	1-0	100%
Building	1	1-0	100%
Unproven	2	2-0	100%

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	Sean Strickland#3	Champion	94	May 9, 2026
W	Dricus Du PlessisCHAMP	Champion	100	Aug 16, 2025
W	Robert Whittaker#3	Champion	94	Oct 26, 2024
W	Kamaru Usman	Cross-div champ	67	Oct 21, 2023
W	Kevin Holland	Cross-div ranked	45	Sep 10, 2022
W	Gilbert Burns#2	Top-5	89	Apr 9, 2022
W	Li Jingliang#11	Top-15	67	Oct 30, 2021
W	Gerald Meerschaert	Building	22	Sep 19, 2020
W	Rhys McKee	Unproven	8	Jul 25, 2020
W	John Phillips	Unproven	8	Jul 15, 2020

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

10 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

2-0

2 bouts

Typical camp

100–180 days

2-0

2 bouts

Long layoff

> 180 days

4-1

5 bouts

UFC debut

first UFC bout

1-0

1 bout

Post-result bounce

Performance based on the previous UFC result

After a loss

next bout after a defeat

—

After a win

next bout after a win

8-1

9 bouts

First UFC bout

no precedent

1-0

1 bout

Title fights

Performance with a belt on the line

All title fights

as challenger or champion

1-1

2 bouts

As champion

defending the belt

0-1

1 bout

As challenger

fighting for the belt

1-0

1 bout

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

2 months

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Khamzat Chimaev

Active

2 monthssince last bout

vs Sean Strickland · May 9, 2026

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 9-1

124.5

DK avg

117.0

Median

126.7

Ceiling

100.7

Floor

100%

Boom

0%

Bust

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