Valery Nikulin
UFC DebutNickname“Rusky”
Record
Streak
L4
Age
Date of birth
- Fighting out of
- Kharkiv
- Born
- Ukraine
- Camp
- Minamoto Klan
- Weight class
- Heavyweight
- Height
- 6'3" · 191 cm
Before the UFC
Valery Nikulin makes their UFC debut
Our striking, grappling, and schedule metrics are measured from UFC fights, so they come online after this bout. Here is the career they bring in — and how live the opposition has been.
Pre-UFC opposition
StrongOpponents' combined record
43-17
.717 win rate
Winning-record opponents
4 of 5
carried winning pro records
Pro bouts faced
8
5 opponents with records on file
A descriptive read of the non-UFC slate from opponents’ full career pro records — not a UFC-grade Schedule Score.
UFC fight history
No UFC bouts on record yet.
Outside the UFC
across 8 bouts · 4 promotions · wins by 1 KO · 1 subIAFC · UCMAL · InterPride 1999 · IFC 1
| Res | Opponent | Outcome | Finish | Rd | Time | Promotion | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L | Vladimir Solodovnik | Submission | Choke | R1 | 0:00 | InterPride 1999 | May 8, 1999 |
| L | Maxim Tarasov15-4 | KO/TKO | Submission to Punches | R1 | 1:48 | IAFC | Mar 6, 1998 |
| L | Other | — | R1 | 0:00 | IAFC | Dec 21, 1997 | |
| L | KO/TKO | Corner Stoppage | R1 | 5:12 | IFC 1 | Mar 30, 1996 | |
| W | Alexei Palchikov | KO/TKO | Punches | R1 | 1:34 | UCMAL | Mar 9, 1996 |
| L | Adilson Lima5-2 | KO/TKO | Submission to Punches | R1 | 2:04 | IAFC | Nov 25, 1995 |
| L | Andrei Besedin3-1 | Submission | Guillotine Choke | R1 | 0:09 | UCMAL | Oct 14, 1995 |
| W | Dzvranbek Pochoev | Submission | Punches | R1 | 6:30 | UCMAL | Oct 14, 1995 |
Non-UFC bouts (regional/other promotions) — shown for context only, excluded from Schedule Score, striking/grappling rates, and every UFC-scoped metric.