Nicolas Dalby
15 UFC Fights | 53% Win Rate | 1 Finishes (13%)
Nicolas Dalby UFC Record & Pro MMA Record
Nicolas Dalby is 8-5-1 in the UFC across 15 fights (1 no contest), with 1 win by knockout and 7 by decision. The full pro MMA record is 24-6-1 (2 NC), 16-1 of it outside the UFC. Dalby competes at welterweight as an orthodox clinch fighter, standing 5'11" with a 74" reach at 41 years old. The last bout was a win over Saygid Izagakhmaev by decision in Nov 2025.
Best attribute: striking volume (significant strikes landed per minute) — 67th percentile among 280 welterweight fighters (3.7 sig. strikes/min).
Nicolas Dalby's UFC win rate is 53% (8 of 15 fights), and 13% of those wins came by finish. Dalby averages 0.8 takedowns per fight at 24% accuracy and stops 57% of opponents' takedown attempts.
- Pro MMA Record
- 24-6-1 (2 NC)
- UFC Record
- 8-5-1 (1 NC)
- Height
- 5'11"
- Reach
- 74"
- Age
- 41
- Stance
- Orthodox
- Last Fight
- W vs Saygid Izagakhmaev · Decision · Nov 2025
Pro record from Sherdog (snapshot 2026-07-03) plus every UFC bout since; UFC record from UFCStats.
Nicolas Dalby's Last 5 Fights
Dalby is 3-2 in the last five UFC fights.
- Win vs Saygid Izagakhmaev · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker · Nov 2025
- Loss vs Randy Brown · KO/TKO · R2 1:39 · UFC Fight Night: Machado Garry vs. Prates · Apr 2025
- Loss vs Rinat Fakhretdinov · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov · Jun 2024
- Win vs Gabriel Bonfim · KO/TKO · R2 4:33 · UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Lewis · Nov 2023
- Win vs Muslim Salikhov · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Cannonier · Jun 2023
Striking
Fighter Profile
Offensive Output
Defensive
Strike Targets
Position Breakdown
Grappling
Takedowns & Control
Win Methods
Finish Probability by Round
Round-by-Round Output
Sig. Strikes Landed per Round — Nicolas Dalby vs Average
Nicolas Dalby lands 13.5 strikes in R1 but 22.5 in R3+ — output increases in later rounds.
Nicolas Dalby's UFC Fight History
15 UFC fights on record (8-5-1 (1 NC)), most recent first.
| Result | Opponent | Method | Rd · Time | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Saygid Izagakhmaev | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker | 2025-11-22 |
| L | Randy Brown | KO/TKO | R2 · 1:39 | UFC Fight Night: Machado Garry vs. Prates | 2025-04-26 |
| L | Rinat Fakhretdinov | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov | 2024-06-22 |
| W | Gabriel Bonfim | KO/TKO | R2 · 4:33 | UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Lewis | 2023-11-04 |
| W | Muslim Salikhov | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Cannonier | 2023-06-17 |
| W | Warlley Alves | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 283: Teixeira vs. Hill | 2023-01-21 |
| W | Claudio Silva | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Aspinall | 2022-07-23 |
| L | Tim Means | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Volkov | 2021-06-26 |
| W | Daniel Rodriguez | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 255: Figueiredo vs. Perez | 2020-11-21 |
| D/NC | Jesse Ronson | Other | R1 · 2:48 | UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till | 2020-07-25 |
| W | Alex Oliveira | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Cannonier | 2019-09-28 |
| L | Peter Sobotta | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Arlovski vs. Barnett | 2016-09-03 |
| L | Zak Cummings | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs Dos Santos | 2016-04-10 |
| D/NC | Darren Till | Draw | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Holohan vs Smolka | 2015-10-24 |
| W | Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Alves | 2015-05-30 |
How Dalby Ranks at Welterweight
Percentile among the 280 welterweight fighters in our database (higher is better; absorbed strikes are inverted).
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