Nicolas Dalby

WelterweightClinch Fighter
8 - 51 D · 1 NC

15 UFC Fights | 53% Win Rate | 1 Finishes (13%)

Height
5' 11"
Reach
74"
Weight
170 lbs.
Age
41
Orthodox

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.

  1. Win vs Saygid Izagakhmaev · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker · Nov 2025
  2. Loss vs Randy Brown · KO/TKO · R2 1:39 · UFC Fight Night: Machado Garry vs. Prates · Apr 2025
  3. Loss vs Rinat Fakhretdinov · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov · Jun 2024
  4. Win vs Gabriel Bonfim · KO/TKO · R2 4:33 · UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Lewis · Nov 2023
  5. Win vs Muslim Salikhov · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Cannonier · Jun 2023

Striking

Fighter Profile

Offensive Output

Sig. Strikes / Min
3.7
Accuracy
43%
Knockdowns / Fight
0.15

Defensive

Absorbed / Min
3.4
1.0x avg
Strike Differential
+0.3
Opp. Accuracy Against
47%

Strike Targets

Position Breakdown

Grappling

Takedowns & Control

Takedowns / Fight
0.8
Takedown Accuracy
24%
Takedown Defense
57%
Control Time / Fight
3:11
Sub Attempts / Fight
0.1

Win Methods

Finish Probability by Round

R1
0% KO
0% Sub
R2
8% KO
0% Sub
R3+
0% KO
0% Sub

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.

ResultOpponentMethodRd · TimeEventDate
WSaygid IzagakhmaevDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker2025-11-22
LRandy BrownKO/TKOR2 · 1:39UFC Fight Night: Machado Garry vs. Prates2025-04-26
LRinat FakhretdinovDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov2024-06-22
WGabriel BonfimKO/TKOR2 · 4:33UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Lewis2023-11-04
WMuslim SalikhovDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Cannonier2023-06-17
WWarlley AlvesDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC 283: Teixeira vs. Hill2023-01-21
WClaudio SilvaDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Aspinall2022-07-23
LTim MeansDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Volkov2021-06-26
WDaniel RodriguezDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC 255: Figueiredo vs. Perez2020-11-21
D/NCJesse RonsonOtherR1 · 2:48UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till2020-07-25
WAlex OliveiraDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Cannonier2019-09-28
LPeter SobottaDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC Fight Night: Arlovski vs. Barnett2016-09-03
LZak CummingsDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs Dos Santos2016-04-10
D/NCDarren TillDrawR3 · 5:00UFC Fight Night: Holohan vs Smolka2015-10-24
WElizeu Zaleski dos SantosDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Alves2015-05-30

How Dalby Ranks at Welterweight

Percentile among the 280 welterweight fighters in our database (higher is better; absorbed strikes are inverted).

Striking volume3.7 sig. strikes/min
67th percentile
Striking accuracy43%
41st percentile
Strikes absorbed3.4/min
42nd percentile
Takedowns0.8/fight
47th percentile
Takedown defense57%
39th percentile
Knockdown power0.15/fight
47th percentile

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