Fight completed
Nikita Krylov vs Abdul-Rakhman Yakhyaev
Abdul-Rakhman Yakhyaev def. Nikita Krylov · KO/TKO · Round 1, 2:38
Tale of the tape
How they win
Krylov
31 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 13
- Submission
- 16
- Decision
- 2
Yakhyaev
10 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 4
- Submission
- 5
- Decision
- 1
How these figures are measured
- Sig. strikes landed per minute
- Significant strikes landed, divided by minutes fought. Career figure.
- Strike accuracy, all strikes
- Every strike landed as a share of every strike thrown, significant or not, over the career. ESPN's own figure. It is not significant-strike accuracy, which runs lower.
- Takedowns per 15 minutes
- Takedowns landed for every 15 minutes fought, the length of a three-round bout. Career figure.
- Takedown accuracy
- Takedowns landed as a share of those attempted. Career figure.
- Submission attempts per 15 minutes
- Submission attempts for every 15 minutes fought. Career figure.
- Finish rate
- Share of the wins on file that ended by knockout, technical knockout or submission.
- Days since last fight
- From the last bout on file to the date of this one.
Records, measurements and career averages are reported by ESPN. The UFC record, last fight, finish rate and win methods are counted by Statwell from the bouts on file for each fighter, which can be fewer than the full professional record. No striking or grappling averages are available for both fighters yet.
Matchup snapshot
Krylov
22 measured UFC bouts, 157.3 minutes
Yakhyaev
3 measured UFC bouts, 3.6 minutes
- 4.38689 landed of 1271 thrown (54%)
- Significant strikes landedper minute
- 5.2819 landed of 33 thrown (58%)
- 2.75opponents landed 433 of 835
- Significant strikes absorbedper minute
- 2.22opponents landed 8 of 19
- 38%23 of 60 attempts
- Takedowns completedof those attempted
- 75%3 of 4 attempts
- 53%conceded 22 of 47 faced
- Takedowns defendedof those faced
- None faced
- 6scored, 3 suffered
- Knockdownsscored and suffered
- 2scored, 0 suffered
About these statistics
Counted by Statwell from ESPN’s per-bout figures over each fighter’s measured UFC bouts. Small samples move quickly: read each figure with the number of bouts behind it. Nothing here is adjusted for the level of past opponents.
Recent form
Nikita Krylov
2-3 in last 5- L
vs Robert Whittaker
KO/TKO · R3 · 1:01
· UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2
Sig. strikes 51 of 99 · Takedowns 3 of 6
- W
vs Modestas Bukauskas
KO/TKO · R3 · 4:57
· UFC 324: Gaethje vs. Pimblett
Sig. strikes 72 of 137 · Takedowns 1 of 4 · 1 knockdown
- L
vs Bogdan Guskov
KO/TKO · R1 · 4:18
· UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. de Ridder
Sig. strikes 16 of 34
- L
vs Dominick Reyes
KO/TKO · R1 · 2:24
· UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes
Sig. strikes 4 of 22
- W
vs Ryan Spann
Submission · R1 · 3:38
· UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Dvalishvili
Sig. strikes 7 of 12 · Takedowns 2 of 2
Abdul-Rakhman Yakhyaev
3-0 in last 3- W
vs Julius Walker
KO/TKO · R1 · 0:08
· UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. Torres
Sig. strikes 6 of 8 · 1 knockdown
- W
vs Brendson Ribeiro
Submission · R1 · 2:52
· UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Duncan
Sig. strikes 7 of 15 · Takedowns 2 of 3
- W
vs Raffael Cerqueira
Submission · R1 · 0:33
· UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker
Sig. strikes 6 of 10 · Takedowns 1 of 1 · 1 knockdown
Statwell Intel
The full analysis is published.
Abdul-Rakhman Yakhyaev has three UFC fights and under four minutes of UFC fighting. Nikita Krylov has twenty-two UFC fights and three stoppage losses in his last four. The first two minutes are the obvious question, not the whole answer.
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