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Asu Almabayev

“Zulfikar”

Flyweight

Kazakhstan#7 Flyweight🔥 3-fight win streak

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Next: vs Kyoji Horiguchi · UFC Fight Night · Main card Sat, Nov 21 · 1:00 PM ET

24WINS

3LOSSES

0DRAWS

3KO/TKO

11SUB

10DEC

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

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Tale of the tape

Age: 32 · born Jan 25, 1994 UFC.com
Height: 5′4″ 163 cm UFC.com
Reach: 65″ 165 cm UFC.com
Leg reach: 36″ 91 cm UFC.com
Stance: Orthodox UFCStats
Weight class: Flyweight UFC.com
UFC ranking: #7 Flyweight UFC.com
Fighting style: Jiu-Jitsu UFC.com
Team / gym: Dar Team UFC.com
Born: Kazakhstan UFC.com
Fights out of / flag: Kazakhstan UFC.com
UFC debut: Aug. 5, 2023 UFC.com
1st-round finishes: 4 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

51%Striking accuracy238 of 463 landed

3%Takedown accuracy2⚑ of 72 landed

2.28Sig. strikes landedper min

1.94Sig. strikes absorbedper min

54%Striking defense

4.74Takedownsper 15 min

44%Takedown defense

1.44Submission attemptsper 15 min

0.14Knockdownsper 15 min

13:03Average fight time

Sig. strikes by position

Standing154 65%

Clinch24 10%

Ground60 25%

Sig. strikes by target

Head128 54%

Body58 24%

Leg52 22%

⚑ = 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 8 bouts

Res	Opponent	Method	Rd	Time	Event	Date
W	Charles Johnson	Submission	3	3:33	UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. Torres	Jun 27, 2026	↗
W	Alex Perez	Submission	3	0:22	UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker	Nov 22, 2025	↗
W	Jose Ochoa	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. De Ridder	Jul 26, 2025	↗
L	Manel Kape	KO/TKO	3	2:16	UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Almabayev	Mar 1, 2025	↗
W	Matheus Nicolau	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Hernandez vs. Pereira	Oct 19, 2024	↗
W	Jose Johnson	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Perez vs. Taira	Jun 15, 2024	↗
W	CJ Vergara	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2	Mar 9, 2024	↗
W	Ode Osbourne	Submission	2	3:11	UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Font	Aug 5, 2023	↗

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.