Dricus Du Plessis vs Nassourdine Imavov

If they fought

A statistical read on a fight that does not exist — no market, no booking, nothing to grade it against.

Dricus Du Plessis 53% Nassourdine Imavov 47%

Run as an unbooked fight, the numbers favour Dricus Du Plessis at 53% — close enough to be a coin toss — there is no meaningful separation between them.

Our two reads agree, and closely. Both land on Dricus Du Plessis — 53% on the first, 53% on the second, the same number.

The same read puts the chance it goes the full distance at 47%.

KO/TKO

37%

Submission

Decision

54%

These figures come from the same statistical reads we run on real cards, with the betting market removed — there is no market on a fight nobody has booked. Nothing here is timestamped against a result, nothing here is graded, and none of it counts towards our public record. It is a thought experiment with real numbers behind it.

Tale of the tape

Dricus Du Plessis vs Nassourdine Imavov — the facts, side by side. ▲ marks the reach edge.

UFC 10-1	UFC record	UFC 9-2 (1 draw/NC)
24-3	Pro record	17-4
Stillknocks	Nickname	The Sniper
6' 1"	Height	6' 3"
76"▲	Reach	75"
Switch	Stance	Orthodox
32	Age	30
185 lbs.	Weight	185 lbs.
South Africa	Nationality	France
Welkom, Orange Free State, South Africa	Born in	Khasavyurt, Dagestan, Russia
Hatfield, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa	Fights out of	Paris, France
Team CIT	Camp	Venum Training Camp

Vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves.

Stat-by-stat

Dricus Du Plessis (left) vs Nassourdine Imavov (right) — career striking & grappling rates. The fighter ahead on each row is highlighted in their corner colour.

Strikes landed / min

5.21

4.28

Striking accuracy

48%

54%

Strikes absorbed / min

4.24

3.17

Striking defence

54%

58%

Takedowns / 15 min

1.9

0.74

Takedown accuracy

48%

32%

Takedown defence

50%

81%

Sub attempts / 15 min

0.6

Career averages from public UFC statistics. On “strikes absorbed / min”, fewer is better.

Fights that have happened between them

None.

Dricus Du Plessis and Nassourdine Imavov have never met in the UFC.

Every matchup on this page is a pairing that has never happened. That is how they are chosen: if these two had already met in the Octagon, there would be a real result to read instead, and this page would not exist.

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