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Aiemann Zahabi

Bantamweight · REAL v1.0 (registered) #14; v1.1 (shadow) #14

Descriptive profile. The resume rank is what has been earned; these statistics are context, not a prediction. A test on Oct 20, 2026 found that career statistics add nothing reliable to age, layoff and experience as predictors of the next result (experiments/REGISTER.md, EXP-2026-10-20-14).

Weight band 14-17: the 10th to 90th percentile of his position across weight vectors drawn near the 70/30 weights. Rating 1,585, deviation 134: measured from 11 UFC bouts; a one-bout newcomer sits near 290.

Age 38 (born 1987-11-19) · Height 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) · Reach 68 in (173 cm) · Stance Orthodox · 140 days since last bout (2026-06-14) · Last five 4-1 · Streak L1

Why he is ranked here

Rating 1,585 is the division's 31st highest of 86 board fighters; the ledger stands at +1.5 (+1.5 from quality wins; losses count for three years); 2 quality wins in 15 years, 1 over top-10 opponents; no form penalty (4-1 last five). Score +0.30 = +0.15 (rating term, 70% weight) +0.16 (ledger term, 30% weight) -0.00 (form penalty); score order put him at #14.

TermValueDetail
Score+0.3070% rating term + 30% ledger term - form penalty
Rating term+0.15resume rating 1,585, scaled against the division's interdecile range
Ledger term+0.16quality ledger +1.5: +1.5 QW +0.0 proof -0.0 blowout -0.0 weak
Form penalty0.00last five 4-1
Quality wins, 15 years21 over top-10 opponents, 2 over top-15
Placementscore order #14v1.0 (registered)
Shadow board v1.1#14score +0.27; score order #14

Rules, weights and worked examples: methodology.

Last ten bouts

DateEventOpponentOpp. official rankResultMethodRoundModel p
2026-06-14UFC Freedom 250Sean O'Malley#3LKO/TKO2 (4:02)35%
2025-10-18UFC Fight Night: De Ridder vs. AllenMarlon Vera#7Wsplit decision3 (5:00)56%
2025-05-10UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della MaddalenaJose Aldo#11Wunanimous decision3 (5:00)41%
2024-11-02UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. AlbaziPedro MunhozunrankedWunanimous decision3 (5:00)59%
2024-03-02UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. GazievJavid BasharatunrankedWunanimous decision3 (5:00)39%
2023-06-10UFC 289: Nunes vs. AldanaAoriqilengunrankedWKO/TKO1 (1:04)58%
2022-07-09UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. FizievRicky TurciosunrankedWunanimous decision3 (5:00)45%
2021-02-20UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. LewisDrako RodriguezunrankedWKO/TKO1 (3:05)44%
2019-05-04UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. CowboyVince MoralesunrankedLunanimous decision3 (5:00)48%
2017-11-04UFC 217: Bisping vs. St-PierreRicardo RamosunrankedLKO/TKO3 (1:58)45%

Opp. official rank = the UFC media-panel rank of the opponent on the date (C champion, #1 to #15, unranked; n/a before Feb 2013 or where no official board existed). Model p = the predictive model's pre-fight win chance for him (frozen performance-adjusted Elo; bouts before 2020 were in its tuning sample). Linked opponents have a profile.

Career statistics

Through 2026-10-31, UFC bouts only. Percentile = share of the 86 board fighters at Bantamweight at or below this value; high is a position in the division, not a verdict.

Output
Significant strikes landed per minute4.47(67th percentile at Bantamweight)
Significant strike accuracy48%(59th percentile at Bantamweight)
Knockdowns scored per 15 minutes0.35(65th percentile at Bantamweight)
Share of wins by finish25%(23rd percentile at Bantamweight)
Defence and damage
Significant strikes absorbed per minute4.11(62nd percentile at Bantamweight)
Significant strike defence68%(97th percentile at Bantamweight)
Knockdowns suffered per 15 minutes0.46(83rd percentile at Bantamweight)
Significant strikes absorbed, career535(74th percentile at Bantamweight)
KO/TKO losses2 (last 2026-06-14, 140 days ago)(92nd percentile at Bantamweight)
Submission losses0(66th percentile at Bantamweight)
KO/TKO losses per bout over 10 years, each weighted down by the finisher's danger0.075(80th percentile at Bantamweight)
Grappling
Takedowns landed per 15 minutes0.12(20th percentile at Bantamweight)
Takedown defence84%(82nd percentile at Bantamweight)
Share of cage time in control4%(19th percentile at Bantamweight)
Share of significant strikes landed in the clinch or on the ground9%(20th percentile at Bantamweight)
Stylestriker (0.8 takedown attempts per 15 min; 4% control)
Career stage
Age39.0(93rd percentile at Bantamweight)
Age at UFC debut29.3(76th percentile at Bantamweight)
Years since UFC debut9.7(93rd percentile at Bantamweight)
UFC bouts11(76th percentile at Bantamweight)
Cage time, minutes130(71st percentile at Bantamweight)
Bouts per year, last three years1.7(67th percentile at Bantamweight)
Days since last bout140(58th percentile at Bantamweight)

Board position since Oct 2023

C102030405020252026Oct 2023Oct 20262023-10-06: #39, Bantamweight2023-10-13: #39, Bantamweight2023-10-20: #40, Bantamweight2023-11-03: #40, Bantamweight2023-11-10: #40, Bantamweight2023-11-17: #41, Bantamweight2023-12-01: #42, Bantamweight2023-12-08: #41, Bantamweight2023-12-15: #41, Bantamweight2024-01-12: #40, Bantamweight2024-01-19: #40, Bantamweight2024-02-02: #40, Bantamweight2024-02-09: #39, Bantamweight2024-02-16: #38, Bantamweight2024-02-23: #36, Bantamweight2024-03-01: #36, Bantamweight2024-03-08: #32, Bantamweight2024-03-15: #32, Bantamweight2024-03-22: #32, Bantamweight2024-03-29: #31, Bantamweight2024-04-05: #32, Bantamweight2024-04-12: #31, Bantamweight2024-04-26: #31, Bantamweight2024-05-03: #31, Bantamweight2024-05-10: #32, Bantamweight2024-05-17: #33, Bantamweight2024-05-31: #33, Bantamweight2024-06-07: #33, Bantamweight2024-06-14: #33, Bantamweight2024-06-21: #33, Bantamweight2024-06-28: #33, Bantamweight2024-07-12: #32, Bantamweight2024-07-19: #31, Bantamweight2024-07-26: #31, Bantamweight2024-08-02: #31, Bantamweight2024-08-09: #31, Bantamweight2024-08-16: #31, Bantamweight2024-08-23: #31, Bantamweight2024-09-06: #31, Bantamweight2024-09-13: #31, Bantamweight2024-09-27: #31, Bantamweight2024-10-04: #31, Bantamweight2024-10-11: #31, Bantamweight2024-10-18: #32, Bantamweight2024-10-25: #33, Bantamweight2024-11-01: #33, Bantamweight2024-11-08: #29, Bantamweight2024-11-15: #30, Bantamweight2024-11-22: #30, Bantamweight2024-12-06: #31, Bantamweight2024-12-13: #30, Bantamweight2025-01-10: #30, Bantamweight2025-01-17: #30, Bantamweight2025-01-31: #29, Bantamweight2025-02-07: #29, Bantamweight2025-02-14: #29, Bantamweight2025-02-21: #29, Bantamweight2025-02-28: #29, Bantamweight2025-03-07: #29, Bantamweight2025-03-14: #29, Bantamweight2025-03-21: #30, Bantamweight2025-03-28: #30, Bantamweight2025-04-04: #30, Bantamweight2025-04-11: #29, Bantamweight2025-04-25: #29, Bantamweight2025-05-02: #29, Bantamweight2025-05-09: #29, Bantamweight2025-05-16: #22, Bantamweight2025-05-30: #21, Bantamweight2025-06-06: #21, Bantamweight2025-06-13: #21, Bantamweight2025-06-20: #22, Bantamweight2025-06-27: #22, Bantamweight2025-07-11: #21, Bantamweight2025-07-18: #21, Bantamweight2025-07-25: #21, Bantamweight2025-08-01: #21, Bantamweight2025-08-08: #21, Bantamweight2025-08-15: #21, Bantamweight2025-08-22: #21, Bantamweight2025-09-05: #21, Bantamweight2025-09-12: #21, Bantamweight2025-09-26: #22, Bantamweight2025-10-03: #22, Bantamweight2025-10-10: #21, Bantamweight2025-10-17: #21, Bantamweight2025-10-24: #8, Bantamweight2025-10-31: #8, Bantamweight2025-11-07: #8, Bantamweight2025-11-14: #8, Bantamweight2025-11-21: #8, Bantamweight2025-12-05: #8, Bantamweight2025-12-12: #14, Bantamweight2026-01-23: #14, Bantamweight2026-01-30: #14, Bantamweight2026-02-06: #14, Bantamweight2026-02-20: #7, Bantamweight2026-02-27: #7, Bantamweight2026-03-06: #14, Bantamweight2026-03-13: #14, Bantamweight2026-03-20: #14, Bantamweight2026-03-27: #14, Bantamweight2026-04-03: #14, Bantamweight2026-04-10: #15, Bantamweight2026-04-17: #15, Bantamweight2026-04-24: #15, Bantamweight2026-05-01: #15, Bantamweight2026-05-08: #15, Bantamweight2026-05-15: #15, Bantamweight2026-05-29: #15, Bantamweight2026-06-05: #14, Bantamweight2026-06-13: #14, Bantamweight2026-06-19: #14, Bantamweight2026-06-26: #14, Bantamweight2026-07-10: #14, Bantamweight2026-07-17: #14, Bantamweight2026-07-24: #14, Bantamweight2026-07-31: #14, Bantamweight2026-08-07: #14, Bantamweight2026-08-14: #14, Bantamweight2026-08-21: #14, Bantamweight2026-08-28: #14, Bantamweight2026-09-04: #14, Bantamweight2026-09-11: #14, Bantamweight2026-09-18: #14, Bantamweight2026-09-25: #14, Bantamweight2026-09-26: #15, Bantamweight2026-10-03: #14, Bantamweight2026-10-10: #14, Bantamweight2026-10-17: #14, Bantamweight2026-10-24: #14, Bantamweight2026-10-31: #14, Bantamweight#14

Position on the registered v1.0 board at each weekly snapshot (C = title holder or reserved, drawn at the top; lower is better).

Predictive rating by bout

1,4501,5001,5501,6001,6501,700202020222024Feb 2017Oct 20262017-02-19: 1,506 (W vs Reginaldo Vieira)2017-11-04: 1,495 (L vs Ricardo Ramos)2019-05-04: 1,450 (L vs Vince Morales)2021-02-20: 1,503 (W vs Drako Rodriguez)2022-07-09: 1,559 (W vs Ricky Turcios)2023-06-10: 1,603 (W vs Aoriqileng)2024-03-02: 1,632 (W vs Javid Basharat)2024-11-02: 1,640 (W vs Pedro Munhoz)2025-05-10: 1,684 (W vs Jose Aldo)2025-10-18: 1,699 (W vs Marlon Vera)2026-06-14: 1,690 (L vs Sean O'Malley)1,690

Rating after each UFC bout from the frozen predictive model (performance-adjusted Elo, data/processed/elo_history.csv; a debut starts at 1,500). The resume rating's history is not stored, so this is the predictive line, which is a different number from the resume rating in the header.

Trajectory

Recent performances run about 54 points behind the rating: fighters this age typically run 89 points behind their rating, and his own recent results recover 35 of those points.

ComponentPointsMeaning
Age component-89what fighters aged 39.0 typically run relative to their rating (population curve, all UFC bouts since 2011)
Own recent results+35his recency-weighted mean and trend over 11 bouts, shrunk toward zero; trend +3 points a year
Combined-54the rating's likely distance from his current performance level, in rating points
Readingbehind ratingahead of, in line with (within 30 points), or behind the rating

Performance relative to the rating, by age

-1.0-0.5+0.0+0.5+1.0282930313233343536373839402017-02-19 (age 29.3): W vs Reginaldo Vieira, residual -0.042017-11-04 (age 30.0): L vs Ricardo Ramos, residual -0.502019-05-04 (age 31.5): L vs Vince Morales, residual -0.152021-02-20 (age 33.3): W vs Drako Rodriguez, residual +0.552022-07-09 (age 34.6): W vs Ricky Turcios, residual +0.162023-06-10 (age 35.6): W vs Aoriqileng, residual +0.472024-03-02 (age 36.3): W vs Javid Basharat, residual +0.132024-11-02 (age 37.0): W vs Pedro Munhoz, residual +0.262025-05-10 (age 37.5): W vs Jose Aldo, residual +0.412025-10-18 (age 37.9): W vs Marlon Vera, residual +0.302026-06-14 (age 38.6): L vs Sean O'Malley, residual -0.30-0.08

Each dot is one decided UFC bout at his age then: the performance score minus the rating's expectation, on the score's own scale from -1 to +1 (filled = win, hollow = loss; above zero is better than the rating implied; a finish as a slight favourite is about +0.45). The dashed line is the population curve for all fighters; the solid line is this fighter's own fitted level and trend as of the data date, weighted toward recent bouts. One unit sustained over many bouts corresponds to about 695 rating points; a single bout's residual is noisy.

Held-out evidence (walk-forward 2016 to 2026, EXP-2026-10-21-01): the age curve held in every test year; the individual component is a weak signal (correlation 0.06 with the next bout's residual; among fighters aged 33 or over, the lowest predicted quartile won 38% of next bouts against 53% expected, the highest 48% against 52%) and adds nothing to bout prediction beyond the shadow model. No board uses any of it: the rankings answer who has earned the place, not who wins next (EXP-2026-10-20-09). Method: src/mmalab/decline.py; settings: config/decline.yaml (expectation from the resume rating; one unit of residual is about 695 rating points).

Context flags

Descriptive only. Each line is a population fact about fighters like him, not a forecast for him; the register entries hold the measurements.

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