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Islam Makhachev

Welterweight

Russia#1 PFP🔥 17-fight win streak

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29WINS

1LOSSES

0DRAWS

5KO/TKO

13SUB

11DEC

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

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Tale of the tape

Age: 34 · born Oct 27, 1991 UFC.com
Height: 5′10″ 178 cm UFC.com
Reach: 70.5″ 179 cm UFC.com
Leg reach: 40.5″ 103 cm UFC.com
Stance: Southpaw UFCStats
Weight class: Welterweight UFC.com
UFC ranking: #1 PFP UFC.com
Fighting style: Sambo UFC.com
Team / gym: Nurmagomedov School UFC.com
Born: Dagestan, Russia UFC.com
Fights out of / flag: Russia UFC.com
UFC debut: May. 23, 2015 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 accuracy507 of 874 landed

15%Takedown accuracy13⚑ of 88 landed

2.27Sig. strikes landedper min

1.42Sig. strikes absorbedper min

61%Striking defense

3.22Takedownsper 15 min

91%Takedown defense

0.87Submission attemptsper 15 min

0.34Knockdownsper 15 min

11:45Average fight time

Sig. strikes by position

Standing293 58%

Clinch95 19%

Ground119 23%

Sig. strikes by target

Head353 70%

Body117 23%

Leg37 7%

⚑ = 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	Ian Machado Garry	Decision - Unanimous	5	5:00	UFC 330: Makhachev vs. Machado Garry	Aug 15, 2026	↗
W	Jack Della Maddalena	Decision - Unanimous	5	5:00	UFC 322: Della Maddalena vs. Makhachev	Nov 15, 2025	↗
W	Renato Moicano	Submission	1	4:05	UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Moicano	Jan 18, 2025	↗
W	Dustin Poirier	Submission	5	2:42	UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier	Jun 1, 2024	↗
W	Alexander Volkanovski	KO/TKO	1	3:06	UFC 294: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski 2	Oct 21, 2023	↗
W	Alexander Volkanovski	Decision - Unanimous	5	5:00	UFC 284: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski	Feb 11, 2023	↗
W	Charles Oliveira	Submission	2	3:16	UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev	Oct 22, 2022	↗
W	King Green	KO/TKO	1	3:23	UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Green	Feb 26, 2022	↗
W	Dan Hooker	Submission	1	2:25	UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira	Oct 30, 2021	↗
W	Thiago Moises	Submission	4	2:38	UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Moises	Jul 17, 2021	↗
W	Drew Dober	Submission	3	1:37	UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya	Mar 6, 2021	↗
W	Davi Ramos	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC 242: Khabib vs. Poirier	Sep 7, 2019	↗
W	Arman Tsarukyan	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Oleinik	Apr 20, 2019	↗
W	Kajan Johnson	Submission	1	4:43	UFC Fight Night: Alvarez vs. Poirier 2	Jul 28, 2018	↗
W	Gleison Tibau	KO/TKO	1	0:57	UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou	Jan 20, 2018	↗
W	Nik Lentz	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC 208: Holm vs. De Randamie	Feb 11, 2017	↗
W	Chris Wade	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Johnson	Sep 17, 2016	↗
L	Adriano Martins	KO/TKO	1	1:46	UFC 192: Cormier vs Gustafsson	Oct 3, 2015	↗
W	Leo Kuntz	Submission	2	2:38	UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier	May 23, 2015	↗

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.