Niklas Backstrom Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	Noad Lahat Featherweight	Decision	Majority	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Jedrzejczyk vs. Penne	Jun 20, 2015
L	Mike Wilkinson Featherweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head At Distance	R1	1:19	UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Story	Oct 4, 2014
W	Tom Niinimaki Featherweight	Submission	Rear Naked Choke	R1	4:15	UFC Fight Night: Munoz vs. Mousasi	May 31, 2014

Outside the UFC

10-2, 1 NCacross 13 bouts · 13 promotions · wins by 4 KO · 3 sub · 3 decKSW 66 · ACB 65 · Cage · SFN 1 · BoB +8

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
L	Sebastian Rajewski12-11	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	KSW 66	Jan 15, 2022
L	Andrew Fisher20-10-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	ACB 65	Jul 22, 2017
W	Joni Salovaara18-11	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Cage	Nov 26, 2016
W	Danijel Kokora21-16	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	—	SFN 1	Jun 4, 2016
W	Georgi Stoyanov20-11	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	—	BoB	Nov 28, 2015
W	Max Coga27-8-1	KO/TKO	Front Kick and Punches	R1	0:15	Europa MMA	Mar 22, 2014
W	Jaakko Vayrynen7-5	KO/TKO	—	R2	0:00	LFN 9	Oct 19, 2013
W	Thomas Hytten9-11-1	KO/TKO	Punches	R2	—	Vision FC	May 5, 2012
W	Sergej Grecicho27-11-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	BP 11	Mar 23, 2012
W	Adam Edwards4-2	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Cage Warriors	Apr 24, 2011
NC	Elias Kunnas4-2-1	No Contest	—	R1	0:00	AF 3	Mar 19, 2011
W	Simon Skold9-8	KO/TKO	Punches	R3	3:23	Superior Challenge 6	Oct 29, 2010
W	Gabriel Mboge Nesje0-1	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	2:30	Superior Challenge 4	Oct 31, 2009

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

4 wins, 1 loss

W4

L1

Submission

4 wins, 0 losses

W4

L0

Decision

3 wins, 3 losses

W3

L3

Finishes

UFC KOs

0

Below avg · 11%Featherweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.00

Below avg · 0.23Featherweight

UFC submissions

1

Above avg · 7%Featherweight

Submission attempts / fight

1.00

Above avg · 0.40Featherweight

KO history

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

Niklas Backstrom

PowerChin

Knockout rate

0%

0 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

0

0.00 per 100 head

Clean KO losses

1

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

1

1.75 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

Niklas Backstrom

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

Split

None

Majority1 decision · 100%

1L

10-8 rounds

1 round total

0

Won

1

Lost

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallF24th

41%23 / 55

Striking accuracy

40%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min-2.53 differential

Landed1.12

Absorbed3.65

56%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

-19%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head52%33rd12
Body26%42nd6
Leg22%44th5

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

Sig. strikes by position

65%Standing

Standing65%15
Clinch26%6
Ground9%2

Striking zones

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

UFC only

Niklas Backstrom

Landed per 15

Head

F

3rd

8.8

3rd

Body

F

12th

4.4

12th

Leg

F

17th

3.6

17th

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

28th

41.6

28th

Body

B

66th

8.8

66th

Leg

A

78th

4.4

78th

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	8.8	12	36	33%
Body	4.4	6	14	43%
Leg	3.6	5	5	100%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	41.6	57	102	56%
Body	8.8	12	17	71%
Leg	4.4	6	7	86%

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

Niklas Backstrom

80%

Takedown accuracy

73%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min-0.5 min net

On top4.6

On bottom5.1

Offense

Takedowns

B

69th

2.9

69th

TD accuracy

80%

Sub attempts

A

82nd

2.2

82nd

Control

B

67th

4.6 min

67th

Defense

TD defense

B

64th

73%

64th

Controlled

5.1 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	4 / 5
Submission attempts	3
Control time	6:21

Defense

TDs defended	8 / 11
Control absorbed	7:00

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (21min 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

Niklas Backstrom

3 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 21 min

—

< 2 bouts to R3

Backstrom 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.

BackstromOutput / 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

Backstromlanded / min

Takedown attempts

Backstromattempts / min

Control time

Backstrom% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	2.5	1.2	1.2	0.00	32%	3
R2	2.8	1.2	9.8	0.40	9%	1
R3	4.6	0.8	2.6	0.60	50%	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

Niklas Backstrom

3 resolved UFC bouts

Schedule Score

29/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

F

5th

13%

5th

Win quality

B

61st

43%

61st

Limited UFC sample (3 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.

2

1

Building3+ UFC fights, ≥.40 win rate
UnprovenFewer than 3 fights, or sub-.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Building	2	0-2	0%
Unproven	1	1-0	100%

Highest-quality opponents

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

Pre-UFC opposition

Strong

Opponents' combined record

178-107-5

.625 win rate

Winning-record opponents

11 of 13

carried winning pro records

Pro bouts faced

13

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	Noad Lahat	Building	15	Jun 20, 2015
L	Mike Wilkinson	Building	15	Oct 4, 2014
W	Tom Niinimaki	Unproven	8	May 31, 2014

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

3 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

0-1

1 bout

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

0-1

1 bout

After a win

next bout after a win

0-1

1 bout

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

—

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

4y 5mo

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Niklas Backstrom

Extended layoff

4y 5mosince last bout

vs Sebastian Rajewski · Jan 15, 2022

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 0-2As underdog 1-0

46.1

DK avg

42.0

Median

93.4

Ceiling

2.8

Floor

33%

Boom

33%

Bust

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