Ismail Naurdiev
MoroccoIsmail Naurdiev, “The Austrian Wonderboy”, is a Middleweight from Morocco with an official record of 25-8. Cage Brothers holds 27 of those bouts: 20 wins and 7 losses, the wins coming 11 by knockout, 4 by submission and 5 by decision. The most recent bout on file is a first-round knockout win over Ryan Loder at UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker on 22 November 2025.
| Date | Opponent | Result | Method | Round | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | Marvin Vettori | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 332: Silva vs. Wang |
| Nov 22, 2025 | Ryan Loder | WIN | KOPunch | R1 · 1:26 | UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker |
| Jun 21, 2025 | JunYong Park | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Hill vs. Rountree Jr. |
| Oct 26, 2024 | Bruno Silva | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway |
| Dec 8, 2023 | Tahar Hadbi | WIN | SUBSubmission (Guillotine) | R1 · 1:10 | Brave CF 79 |
| Dec 17, 2022 | Vadym Kutsyi | LOSS | KOKO/TKO | R1 | Brave CF 68 |
| Oct 19, 2022 | Marcin BandelTitle | LOSS | SUBSubmission (Armbar) | R1 · 1:30 | Brave CF 63 |
| Jun 18, 2022 | Bekten Zheenbekov | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R1 | Brave CF 59 & ATF 11 |
| Sep 25, 2021 | Olli Santalahti | WIN | DECDecision - Unanimous | R3 · 5:00 | Brave CF 54 |
| Apr 1, 2021 | Jarrah Al-SilawiTitle | LOSS | KOKO/TKO | R2 · 1:19 | Brave CF 50 |
| Sep 5, 2020 | Tymoteusz Łopaczyk | WIN | DECDecision - Unanimous | R3 · 5:00 | EMC 5: Elite MMA Championship 5 |
| Feb 29, 2020 | Sean Brady | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Benavidez vs. Figueiredo |
| Sep 28, 2019 | Siyar Bahadurzada | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Cannonier |
| Jul 6, 2019 | Chance Rencountre | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos |
| Feb 23, 2019 | Michel Prazeres | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Santos |
| Feb 2, 2019 | Paulistenio Rocha | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R1 · 0:36 | XFN 16: X Fight Nights 16 |
| Nov 18, 2017 | Georgi Valentinov | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R1 · 3:10 | ACB 74: Agujev vs Townsend |
| Sep 23, 2017 | Ismael de Jesus | LOSS | DECDecision - Unanimous | R3 · 5:00 | ACB 70: Barnatt vs. Askham |
| May 13, 2017 | Ben Alloway | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R1 · 2:24 | ACB 60: Agujev vs. Devent |
| Jan 21, 2017 | Andrei Vasinca | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R1 · 1:28 | ACB 52: Another Level of MMA Fighting |
| Dec 17, 2016 | Laszlo Szogyenyi | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R2 | WWFC: Cage Encounter 5 |
| Oct 16, 2016 | Garik ShahbabyanTitle | WIN | SUBSubmission (Arm Triangle) | R2 | Aggrelin 14: Cage Fight Salzburg |
| Aug 27, 2016 | Daniel Skibinski | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R1 · 0:40 | WFC 20: Exclusive Fight Night |
| Feb 27, 2016 | David Mate | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R1 | KHFN: KraftHerr Fight Night |
| Dec 12, 2015 | Leonardo D'auria | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R1 | AFC: Austrian Fight Challenge 2 |
| Dec 6, 2015 | Asmir Sadikovic | WIN | SUBSubmission (Triangle Choke) | R2 | NAAFS: Europe |
| Apr 26, 2014 | Uros Pavlovic | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R1 | Stoke Fight Factory: Rage in the Cage 4 |
| Feb 2, 2013 | Abdul Shaliqhi | WIN | SUBSubmission (Rear Naked Choke) | R1 | DH: Dragon House 13 |
Wins, losses and draws are Ismail Naurdiev’s official record. Everything else is counted from the 28 bouts we hold a full result for — method, round and time. Per-fight striking and grappling statistics are not published in our data source, so they are not shown.
Ismail Naurdiev’s record, in numbers
Ismail Naurdiev’s official record is 25-8. Every figure on this page is counted instead from the 27 bouts Cage Brothers holds a result for — 20 wins, 7 losses — because 6 bouts from the official record are not in the history we hold.
The 20 wins break down as 11 by knockout, 4 by submission and 5 by decision — 15 of 20 inside the distance, a finish rate of 75%. Across all 27 bouts with a recorded finishing round, the average bout lasted 6 minutes 15 seconds.
Ismail Naurdiev has been stopped 3 times in the 27 bouts on file — 2 by knockout and 1 by submission — which is 11% of them.
Of the 27 bouts Cage Brothers holds a result for, 3 were for a title and 5 were the main event of the card. Three of them have come since September 2024.
Set against the 396 Middleweight fighters Cage Brothers holds eight or more bouts for, Ismail Naurdiev has a finish rate above 49% of them, a record of avoiding stoppage above 67% of them and a two-year bout count above 75% of them. The comparison is made inside the division rather than across the whole roster, because how often a division finishes depends heavily on what it weighs.
Ismail Naurdiev is listed at 5ft 10in with a reach of 74in, fights orthodox and is 30, born 17 August 1996.
These figures are recomputed from Ismail Naurdiev’s bout history each time results are synced, so they follow the record rather than a fixed snapshot.