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Alexander Volkov

“Drago”

Heavyweight

Russia#2 Heavyweight🔥 2-fight win streak

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Next: vs Rizvan Kuniev · UFC 333 · Main card Sat, Oct 24 · 2:00 PM ET

40WINS

11LOSSES

0DRAWS

24KO/TKO

4SUB

12DEC

Pro MMA recordSource: UFC.com athlete profile (official)Checked 2026-10-22

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Tale of the tape

Age: 37 · born Oct 24, 1988 UFC.com
Height: 6′7″ 201 cm UFC.com
Reach: 80″ 203 cm UFC.com
Leg reach: 47.5″ 121 cm UFC.com
Stance: Orthodox UFCStats
Weight class: Heavyweight UFC.com
UFC ranking: #2 Heavyweight UFC.com
Fighting style: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu UFC.com
Team / gym: Global Fight Gym UFC.com
Born: Moscow, Russia UFC.com
Fights out of / flag: Russia UFC.com
UFC debut: Nov. 19, 2016 UFC.com
1st-round finishes: 17 UFC.com

UFC.com: UFC.com athlete profile (official) · checked 2026-10-22 · UFCStats: UFCStats.com fighter page (data via the public ufcstats.com mirror, snapshot 2026-10-18)

UFC career stats

58%Striking accuracy1336 of 2305 landed

31%Takedown accuracy5⚑ of 16 landed

4.84Sig. strikes landedper min

2.9Sig. strikes absorbedper min

54%Striking defense

0.54Takedownsper 15 min

69%Takedown defense

0.22Submission attemptsper 15 min

0.22Knockdownsper 15 min

13:09Average fight time

Sig. strikes by position

Standing1091 82%

Clinch155 12%

Ground90 7%

Sig. strikes by target

Head767 57%

Body315 24%

Leg254 19%

⚑ = UFC.com and UFCStats disagree on this number. We show the official UFC.com figure and have flagged it for review.

Source: UFC.com athlete profile (official) (UFC stats are for UFC bouts only) · checked 2026-10-22

UFC fight history 19 bouts

Res	Opponent	Method	Rd	Time	Event	Date
W	Waldo Cortes Acosta	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC 328: Chimaev vs. Strickland	May 9, 2026	↗
W	Jailton Almeida	Decision - Split	3	5:00	UFC 321: Aspinall vs. Gane	Oct 25, 2025	↗
L	Ciryl Gane	Decision - Split	3	5:00	UFC 310: Pantoja vs. Asakura	Dec 7, 2024	↗
W	Sergei Pavlovich	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov	Jun 22, 2024	↗
W	Tai Tuivasa	Submission	2	4:37	UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland	Sep 9, 2023	↗
W	Alexandr Romanov	KO/TKO	1	2:16	UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Dvalishvili	Mar 11, 2023	↗
W	Jairzinho Rozenstruik	KO/TKO	1	2:12	UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Rozenstruik	Jun 4, 2022	↗
L	Tom Aspinall	Submission	1	3:45	UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Aspinall	Mar 19, 2022	↗
W	Marcin Tybura	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira	Oct 30, 2021	↗
L	Ciryl Gane	Decision - Unanimous	5	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Volkov	Jun 26, 2021	↗
W	Alistair Overeem	KO/TKO	2	2:06	UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov	Feb 6, 2021	↗
W	Walt Harris	KO/TKO	2	1:15	UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje	Oct 24, 2020	↗
L	Curtis Blaydes	Decision - Unanimous	5	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Volkov	Jun 20, 2020	↗
W	Greg Hardy	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Zabit vs. Kattar	Nov 9, 2019	↗
L	Derrick Lewis	KO/TKO	3	4:49	UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor	Oct 6, 2018	↗
W	Fabricio Werdum	KO/TKO	4	1:38	UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Volkov	Mar 17, 2018	↗
W	Stefan Struve	KO/TKO	3	3:30	UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Struve	Sep 2, 2017	↗
W	Roy Nelson	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Reis	Apr 15, 2017	↗
W	Timothy Johnson	Decision - Split	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Mousasi vs. Hall 2	Nov 19, 2016	↗

UFC bouts only. Source: UFCStats.com bout pages (via the public mirror, snapshot 2026-10-18) · checked 2026-10-22. Bouts outside the UFC aren’t listed because we only republish history we can trace to an official source.