Abusupiyan Magomedov

Magomedov produced one of his sharpest UFC finishes in Baku, hurting Oleksiejczuk early, dropping him, and then wrapping up the guillotine before the round could settle. It was a fast, layered win that showed both his long-range striking and how quickly he can turn damage into a submission.

Key moments

• He buzzed Oleksiejczuk first rather than jumping straight into the grappling exchange.
• The knockdown created the opening for Magomedov to chase the neck on the mat.
• The guillotine finish came at 3:25 of round one, closing the fight before Oleksiejczuk could recover.
• It extended Magomedov's recent middleweight rebound with another official UFC finish.

Magomedov stayed in the fight through the opening round, but Pyfer changed everything almost immediately after the second began. Pyfer hurt him early in the round, switched to grappling once the opening appeared, and forced the submission at 1:46.

Key moments

• The decisive swing came right after the start of round two rather than late in the fight.
• Pyfer landed the damaging sequence first and only then transitioned to the mat.
• Once Pyfer secured back control and the finishing grip, Magomedov had little room to escape.
• The loss interrupted the momentum Magomedov had rebuilt at middleweight.

Magomedov stayed disciplined over three rounds against Pereira and took a clean sweep on the scorecards. Rather than matching Pereira's volatility, he fought a measured fifteen minutes and forced the bout to be scored on his terms.

Key moments

• All three judges scored the fight 30-27 for Magomedov.
• He turned the matchup into a controlled decision instead of an improvisational brawl.
• The win was singled out by UFC coverage as one of the night's ranking-shaping results.
• It gave Magomedov another quality middleweight result against an established UFC name.

Magomedov had to work deeper into this one than in some of his earlier finishes, but he still found the submission once the fight reached the third round. The arm-triangle at 3:14 gave him a composed late finish over another dangerous middleweight finisher.

Key moments

• He survived long enough to turn the fight into a late grappling finish instead of a pure power exchange.
• The official result came by arm-triangle choke in round three.
• The finish arrived at 3:14, showing Magomedov could still close once the bout got extended.
• It backed up the idea that his submission threat remains live even against aggressive pressure fighters.

Magomedov opened his 2024 turnaround with a dominant decision over Alves, winning every card by a wide margin. The official scorecards came back 30-26 across the board, which reflected a fight he controlled much more clearly than a routine unanimous decision suggests.

Key moments

• All three judges turned in 30-26 scorecards for Magomedov.
• The lopsided cards showed round-winning control rather than a narrow point-fight.
• It was an important reset after back-to-back UFC losses to Borralho and Strickland.
• The result started the four-win stretch that rebuilt his standing at middleweight.

Magomedov started well and did his best work early to the body, but Borralho steadily took the fight over with cleaner jabs, knees, and a much stronger closing stretch. By the third round Borralho had him hurt, forced him backward, and closed the fight as the man with all the momentum.

Key moments

• Magomedov won the early optics for many observers with pressure and body shots.
• An eye-poke break in round one interrupted Borralho after damage had already started to show on his face.
• Borralho's jab and knee work kept building through rounds two and three.
• Late in the fight Borralho hurt Magomedov, forced him to the fence, and briefly took the back.

Magomedov had a strong first round and looked dangerous early, but he could not sustain that pace once Strickland settled in behind the jab. Round two turned into a one-way pressure fight, with Strickland walking him down until the barrage on the fence forced the stoppage.

Key moments

• Magomedov did some of the better work in round one with kicks, straight lefts, and a takedown.
• Strickland flipped the fight early in round two with his jab and sharp one-two combinations.
• Magomedov's output fell off badly once Strickland took over the tempo.
• The finish came at 4:20 of round two with Magomedov shelled along the cage.

Magomedov's UFC debut lasted only nineteen seconds and could hardly have gone better. He stunned Stoltzfus with a front kick up the middle, swarmed immediately, and produced one of the fastest middleweight finishes in UFC history.

Key moments

• The front kick was the first clean strike and instantly changed the fight.
• An uppercut and follow-up left hook dumped Stoltzfus to the floor.
• Magomedov never gave him a chance to reset once the opening appeared.
• Two final right hands completed the 0:19 stoppage and earned a Performance of the Night bonus.

Magomedov's long-awaited KSW debut was measured early and decisive once he locked onto the neck in the second round. Kesik went unconscious in the choke rather than tapping, which is why the result is officially listed as a technical submission.

Key moments

• The finish came in round two after a more patient first stretch than many of Magomedov's quicker wins.
• Officially the result is a technical submission, not a standard tap-out submission.
• Kesik lost consciousness in the guillotine as the hold tightened.
• The stoppage came at 1:53 of the second round.

Magomedov bounced back from the PFL final loss with a quick first-round kimura in Germany. The fight was over in under a minute, continuing the run of fast regional finishes that surrounded his time outside the UFC and PFL spotlight.

Key moments

• The submission was locked up only 47 seconds into the fight.
• Officially the finish is a kimura from the opening round.
• It was Magomedov's first fight after the Louis Taylor knockout loss in the PFL final.
• The win came in Dusseldorf, which had become a familiar base for his regional career.

Magomedov entered the PFL middleweight final with a real chance to cash the promotion's biggest check, but the fight ended almost immediately. Taylor knocked him out with the first clean punch he landed and stole the title and million-dollar prize in thirty-three seconds.

Key moments

• This was the 2018 PFL middleweight championship fight.
• Taylor won the belt and $1 million with a first-round knockout.
• Contemporary coverage emphasized that the finish came off Taylor's first clean punch.
• The official time was 0:33 of round one.

On a one-night playoff card, Magomedov came back after his quarterfinal draw and beat Sy over two rounds to reach the PFL championship fight. It was a controlled semifinal win that mattered as much for surviving the turnaround as for anything spectacular inside the cage.

Key moments

• This was the 2018 PFL middleweight semifinal.
• The bout was scheduled for two rounds and went the full distance.
• Magomedov got the unanimous decision after already fighting earlier that night.
• The win sent him into the season final against Louis Taylor.

Magomedov's quarterfinal with Umalatov ended as a majority draw after two rounds, but he still advanced under PFL's first-round tiebreaker rules. It was a survive-and-advance result rather than a clean win on the record.

Key moments

• The official result was a majority draw after two rounds.
• The fight was part of the 2018 PFL middleweight quarterfinal bracket.
• Magomedov advanced because he won the first-round tiebreaker.
• It forced him to fight again later that night to keep the playoff run alive.

Magomedov blasted through Goncalves in the opening round to strengthen his position in the PFL regular season. PFL's own material frames it as a clean knockout shot to the jaw that put Goncalves down before the referee stepped in.

Key moments

• The knockout came at 1:27 of the opening round.
• It was one of Magomedov's quickest finishes during the 2018 PFL season.
• The result came in a regular-season bout rather than a playoff fight.
• The win helped keep him on track for the postseason push.

Magomedov opened his 2018 PFL season with a body-shot stoppage of Villefort and immediately looked like a problem in the middleweight field. The front kick to the body was the signature strike, with the follow-up punches sealing the finish late in the first.

Key moments

• The official finish time was 3:37 of round one.
• The front kick to the body was the signature moment of the stoppage.
• This was a regular-season PFL win, not part of the later playoff bracket.
• The result gave him a strong start in the 2018 middleweight season.

Magomedov stopped Dan Hope in the first round to claim the vacant Superior FC middleweight title. Detailed play-by-play is thin, but the important facts are clear: early finish, punching stoppage, and championship stakes.

Key moments

• The stoppage came at 2:15 of the opening round.
• The bout was for the vacant Superior FC middleweight championship.
• The official method is a first-round TKO by punches.
• It added another regional title to Magomedov's résumé before the PFL and UFC phases.

Magomedov submitted Sergio Souza in just eighty seconds in Ljubljana and kept his 2017 regional run moving with another fast finish. It came in a catchweight bout and reinforced how consistently dangerous his guillotine was in this phase of his career.

Key moments

• The guillotine finish was locked up at 1:20 of the first round.
• The fight took place on the FFC 29 card in Ljubljana.
• Wikipedia records it as a 198-pound catchweight bout.
• It followed his Superior FC 16 win by only a few weeks.

Magomedov had to work deeper here than in several nearby finishes, finally submitting Benrois in the second round instead of blowing him out early. The fight showed the same guillotine threat that kept surfacing across his regional title run.

Key moments

• The submission came at 2:51 of round two.
• This was one of the fewer fights in the run that pushed beyond the opening frame.
• The official method is a guillotine choke.
• The win kept his Superior FC stretch moving in Darmstadt.

Magomedov wiped out Schuck in under a minute at Superior FC 15. The finish is officially recorded as a mixed punch-and-elbow sequence rather than a simpler punches-only stoppage.

Key moments

• The fight ended 53 seconds into the opening round.
• The official method is TKO by punch and elbow.
• It was another fast regional finish in his 2016 run.
• The bout took place in Russelsheim am Main.

Magomedov finished veteran Ivica Truscek late in the second round with a rear-naked choke at FFC 26. The bout stretched much longer than most of the surrounding finishes on his record and was booked at catchweight rather than a standard middleweight number.

Key moments

• The rear-naked choke finish came with only ten seconds left in round two.
• This was one of the later finishes in his regional streak rather than a quick blitz.
• The fight was held at catchweight, not standard middleweight.
• It took place on the FFC 26 card in Linz.

Magomedov won his middleweight debut by first-round TKO over Raymond Jarman at Superior FC 14. Reliable sources line up on the result, round, and method, but the exact stoppage time is not strong enough to improve confidently.

Key moments

• This was Magomedov's middleweight debut.
• The official result is a first-round TKO by punches.
• The bout took place at Superior FC 14: The Comeback in Duren.
• Source coverage is sparse beyond the result and event context.

Parlo handed Magomedov a unanimous-decision loss over three full rounds at GMC 7 in one of the clearer checkpoints of his pre-PFL regional career. It was a catchweight main event and one of the longer, cleaner scorecard fights in this section of the file.

Key moments

• The fight went the full three-round distance before going to the cards.
• It was a 181-pound catchweight bout rather than a standard divisional fight.
• The matchup held main-event billing on the GMC 7 card.
• Parlo's win marked one of the more important regional setbacks before Magomedov's later rebound.

Magomedov produced another quick regional finish by stopping Josip Artukovic in 1:10 of the first round. Sources agree the body attack was central to the stoppage, with punches finishing the sequence once the opening appeared.

Key moments

• The first-round finish came at 1:10.
• The official method centers on a body kick followed by punches.
• This was another welterweight result in his 2015 run.
• The fight took place in Fulda, Germany.

Magomedov stopped Donovan Panayiotis in under a minute at GMC 6 and kept the 2015 finish streak moving. Open reporting is sparse, so the strongest claim here is simply how quickly he got the fight done and how consistently that defined this stretch of his record.

Key moments

• The stoppage came at 0:56 of round one.
• It was another first-round punching finish in Castrop-Rauxel.
• The fight stayed in the welterweight lane of his regional climb.
• It added to a run where many opponents never escaped the opening frame.

Magomedov beat Rafal Blachuta by unanimous decision at GMC 5 in one of the rarer extended fights on this part of the record. The stronger source set points to a three-round fight rather than the five-round distance currently shown in the file.

Key moments

• The fight went the full scheduled distance rather than ending in a finish.
• It was one of the clearer non-finish wins in his welterweight regional run.
• The bout took place in Castrop-Rauxel on the GMC 5 card.
• Winning three rounds over a durable opponent gave him a different kind of résumé line than the usual quick stoppage.

Rafal Moks submitted Magomedov with a first-round guillotine at GMC 4 and took the GMC welterweight title from him in the process. That title-loss context makes it one of the more meaningful setbacks in the regional section of his career.

Key moments

• The guillotine finish came at 2:53 of the opening round.
• Wikipedia explicitly notes this as the loss of Magomedov's GMC welterweight belt.
• The fight took place in Herne, Germany.
• It interrupted the rise that had already produced an early regional championship.

Magomedov stopped Andreas Birgels late in the first round to win the Superior FC welterweight championship. It stands as one of the clearer title-winning regional finishes on the record before the PFL, KSW, and UFC stages.

Key moments

• The TKO came at 4:44 of round one.
• This win earned him the Superior FC welterweight title.
• The official method is a first-round punching stoppage.
• The championship result came in Hamburg.

Andreas Stahl handed Magomedov his first recorded professional loss by submitting him with a rear-naked choke in the second round in Sweden. Pre-fight coverage framed it as an unbeaten-versus-unbeaten welterweight meeting, which matches the stakes even though the exact finish time is not published reliably.

Key moments

• This was the first loss of Magomedov's pro career.
• The official result is a rear-naked choke in round two.
• The bout matched two previously unbeaten welterweights.
• It took place in Halmstad, Sweden.

Magomedov stopped Jessin Ayari in the first round to win the vacant GMC welterweight title. It became one of the more meaningful early wins on the file because Ayari later reached the UFC and the bout itself carried belt stakes.

Key moments

• The finish came at 1:49 of the first round.
• This win gave him the vacant GMC welterweight championship.
• The official method is TKO by punches.
• The title-winning performance happened in Herne.

Magomedov beat David Rosmon by unanimous decision over three rounds at European MMA 1 in Copenhagen. Event coverage confirms the scoreline and format cleanly even if there is not much trustworthy blow-by-blow texture left in public circulation.

Key moments

• The fight went the full three-round distance.
• Magomedov got the unanimous decision on the scorecards.
• The bout took place in Copenhagen on the European MMA 1 card.
• The win extended his unbeaten start to 7-0.

Magomedov beat Gocha Smoyan by doctor stoppage early in the second round at Superior FC 7. It is another early finish on paper, but this one turned on cageside medical intervention rather than a normal referee wave-off or submission.

Key moments

• The stoppage came only 15 seconds into round two.
• Officially the method is doctor stoppage rather than a standard strikes TKO.
• The event branding tied into the M-1 Fighter Europe platform.
• The result moved Magomedov to 6-0 as a professional.

Magomedov stopped Bjorn Corsis by doctor stoppage in the second round at Superior FC 6. Available sources line up on the medical nature of the finish, which makes it distinct from the many ordinary striking stoppages around it.

Key moments

• The fight was stopped at 1:28 of round two.
• Officially the result is a doctor stoppage, not a normal strikes TKO.
• The event took place in Karlsruhe.
• The win kept his unbeaten record intact at 5-0.

Magomedov beat Igor Montes by unanimous decision over two rounds at Mix Fight Gala 11. It is an early-career distance win under a shorter format, which makes it structurally different from the later three-round decisions on his record.

Key moments

• The fight was scheduled for two rounds rather than three.
• Magomedov won a unanimous decision after the full distance.
• The event took place in Sindelfingen.
• The result moved him to 4-0 early in his professional run.

Magomedov beat Fahd Jahri by unanimous decision over two rounds at Kiru: In the Spirit of the Knights. Like the Montes bout, it reads most honestly as a straightforward early distance win under a shorter regional format.

Key moments

• The bout went the full two-round schedule.
• Magomedov earned another unanimous decision on the cards.
• The event took place in Bitburg, Germany.
• The win improved his record to 3-0.

Magomedov stopped Sjobbe Clymans by first-round TKO at Outsider Cup: Cage Fight Night 7 and added one of the first finishes of his career. Source coverage is thin, but Sherdog is internally consistent that the stoppage came later in the round than some secondary tables suggest.

Key moments

• The official result is a first-round punching stoppage.
• Sherdog's event and fighter records both support a 1:57 finish time.
• The event took place in Koblenz.
• The win moved Magomedov to 2-0.

Magomedov won his professional debut by guillotine choke in only thirty seconds against Nicola di Loreto. Wikipedia also tags it as his welterweight debut, which gives the row a little more useful context than the bare finish line alone.

Key moments

• This was Magomedov's professional debut.
• He finished the fight with a guillotine choke at 0:30 of round one.
• Wikipedia records it as his welterweight debut.
• The bout took place in Bielefeld.