Sergei Pavlovich vs Tai Tuivasa

Sergei Pavlovich is 21-3-0; Tai Tuivasa is 15-11-0. Sergei Pavlovich is 1 year older than Tai Tuivasa. Sergei Pavlovich has a 9" · 23 cm reach advantage over Tai Tuivasa. Sergei Pavlovich is 1" · 3 cm taller than Tai Tuivasa. They have met once: Sergei Pavlovich 1, Tai Tuivasa 0.

Sergei Pavlovich

21-3-0

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HeavyweightMet once

Tai Tuivasa

“Bam Bam” · 15-11-0

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Style & credentials

Sergei Pavlovich

No background on record

Camp · American Top Team · Russia

Tai Tuivasa

BoxingKickboxing

2016AFC Heavyweight ChampionshipAustralian Fighting Championship (AFC)
2014Semifinalist · GFC Heavyweight Tournamentheavyweight
2012Competitor · Combat 8 Mixed Rules

Camp · American Top Team · Coconut Creek, Florida, US

Sig. strikes by zone

Where each fighter lands, as a share of significant strikes

83%

Head

59%

11%

Body

18%

Leg

23%

Time in position

Share of fight time at distance, in the clinch and on the ground

Sergei Pavlovichlast 8 fights

76%11%13%

Tai Tuivasalast 7 fights

56%15%29%

■ Distance■ Clinch■ Ground

How good, really

Each stat against every UFC fighter, in plain words

Sergei Pavlovich· from fights outside the UFC Tai Tuivasa· from fights outside the UFC

Strikes landed / min

4.493.25

PoorBelow avgAverageGoodElite

Sergei Pavlovich · Good · better than 80% of UFC fightersTai Tuivasa · Average · better than 45% of UFC fighters

Strikes taken / minfewer is better

3.584.36

PoorBelow avgAverageGoodElite

Sergei Pavlovich · Average · better than 44% of UFC fightersTai Tuivasa · Below avg · better than 22% of UFC fighters

Takedowns landed / 15 min

0.470.09

PoorBelow avgAverageGoodElite

Sergei Pavlovich · Below avg · better than 20% of UFC fightersTai Tuivasa · Poor · better than 9% of UFC fighters

Takedown accuracy

25%11%

PoorBelow avgAverageGoodElite

Sergei Pavlovich · Below avg · better than 20% of UFC fightersTai Tuivasa · Poor · better than 8% of UFC fighters

Takedown defence

75%56%

PoorBelow avgAverageGoodElite

Sergei Pavlovich · Good · better than 74% of UFC fightersTai Tuivasa · Below avg · better than 34% of UFC fighters

Submission attempts / 15 min

0.000.00

PoorBelow avgAverageGoodElite

Sergei Pavlovich · Poor · better than 0% of UFC fightersTai Tuivasa · Poor · better than 0% of UFC fighters

Ranked against 1483 UFC fighters with five or more UFC fights.

Striking & grappling

Same scale left and right on every row

4.49

Strikes landed / min

3.25

3.58

Strikes taken / minfewer is better

4.36

0.47 / 1.9

Takedowns landed / 15 min

0.09 / 0.8

25%

Takedown accuracy

11%

75%

Takedown defence

56%

0:38

Control time / fight

1:19

0.00

Submission attempts / 15 min

0.00

Bars in a row share one scale. The stronger side is solid; the pale tail behind takedowns is attempts.

Where the strikes land

Range × target

Sergei Pavlovich12 UFC fights · 285 landed

Head

Body

Leg

Distance

66%189/496

10%28/42

6%18/19

Clinch

6%17/32

1%2/4

0%0/0

Ground

11%31/45

0%0/0

Tai Tuivasa19 UFC fights · 522 landed

Head

Body

Leg

Distance

37%193/611

10%50/78

22%116/159

Clinch

17%90/141

7%35/36

1%4/7

Ground

5%24/35

2%10/10

0%0/1

Share of significant strikes landed by range and target · landed / attempted in each cell.

When it ends

Every early finish of their careers, placed at the minute it ended

Sergei Pavlovich18 of 24 ended early · 75%6 went the distance

R1R2R3R4R5

Tai Tuivasa19 of 25 ended early · 76%6 went the distance

R1R2R3R4R5

2 early stoppages have no logged time

finished the opponent got finished· placed at the minute the fight ended

Recent form · last 5

Sergei Pavlovich3-2

W
Tallison Teixeira
UFC Fight Night: Song vs Figueiredo · May 30, 2026
TKO · R1 · 0:39 · Heavyweight
W
Waldo Cortes Acosta
UFC Fight Night: Walker vs Zhang · Aug 23, 2025
Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Heavyweight
W
Jairzinho Rozenstruik
UFC Saudi Arabia: Adesanya vs Imavov · Feb 1, 2025
Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Heavyweight
L
Alexander Volkov
UFC Saudi Arabia · Jun 22, 2024
Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Heavyweight
L
Tom Aspinall
UFC 295: Procházka vs Pereira · Nov 11, 2023
TKO · R1 · 1:09 · Interim Heavyweight

Full record · 24 fights

W
Curtis Blaydes
UFC Fight Night: Pavlovich vs Blaydes · Apr 22, 2023
TKO · R1 · 3:08 · Heavyweight
W
Tai Tuivasa
UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs Holland · Dec 3, 2022
TKO · R1 · 0:54 · Heavyweight
W
Derrick Lewis
UFC 277: Peña vs Nunes · Jul 30, 2022
TKO · R1 · 0:55 · Heavyweight
W
Shamil Abdurakhimov
UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs Aspinall · Mar 19, 2022
TKO · R1 · 4:03 · Heavyweight
W
Maurice Greene
UFC Fight Night: Maia vs Askren · Oct 26, 2019
TKO · R1 · 2:11 · Heavyweight
W
Marcelo Golm
UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs Oleinik · Apr 20, 2019
TKO · R1 · 1:06 · Heavyweight
L
Alistair Overeem
UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs Ngannou 2 · Nov 24, 2018
TKO · R1 · 4:21 · Heavyweight
W
Kirill Sidelnikov
Fight Nights Global 79 · Nov 19, 2017
TKO · R1 · 2:45 · Heavyweight
W
Mikhail Mokhnatkin
Fight Nights Global 68 · Jun 2, 2017
Unanimous Decision · Heavyweight
W
Alexei Kudin
Fight Nights Global 54 · Nov 16, 2016
Unanimous Decision · Heavyweight
W
Magomed Akhmedshaikh Gelegaev
Fight Nights Global 51 · Sep 25, 2016
TKO · R1 · 3:35 · Heavyweight
W
Chaban Ka
Fight Nights Global 50 · Jun 17, 2016
TKO · R1 · 1:54 · Heavyweight
W
Baga Agaev
Fight Nights Global 46 · Apr 29, 2016
Unanimous Decision · Heavyweight
W
Ruben Wolf
Fight Nights Global 43 · Dec 11, 2015
TKO · R1 · 2:02 · Heavyweight
W
Sultan Murtazaliev
Fight Nights Global 41 · Sep 25, 2015
TKO · R1 · 1:00 · Heavyweight
W
Vladimir Daineko
Fight Nights Global 40 · Jul 31, 2015
TKO · R1 · 0:25 · Heavyweight
W
Ilja Škondrič
Full Fight 1 · May 30, 2015
TKO · R1 · 1:15 · Heavyweight
W
Sergey Buinachev
Fight Nights Global 33 · Mar 21, 2015
TKO · R1 · 0:20 · Heavyweight
W
Alexandr Derevyanko
Fight Nights Global 29 · Dec 20, 2014
TKO · R1 · 3:52 · Heavyweight

Tai Tuivasa0-5

L
Robelis Despaigne
Crypto.com UFC 331 · Sep 19, 2026
Split Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Heavyweight
L
Louie Sutherland
UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs Prates · May 2, 2026
Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Heavyweight
L
Tallison Teixeira
UFC 325: Volkanovski vs Lopes 2 · Feb 1, 2026
Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Heavyweight
L
Jairzinho Rozenstruik
UFC 305: Du Plessis vs Adesanya · Aug 18, 2024
Split Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Heavyweight
L
Marcin Tybura
UFC Fight Night: Tuivasa vs Tybura · Mar 16, 2024
Submission · R1 · 4:08 · Heavyweight

Full record · 25 fights

L
Alexander Volkov
UFC 293: Adesanya vs Strickland · Sep 10, 2023
Submission · R2 · 4:37 · Heavyweight
L
Sergei Pavlovich
UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs Holland · Dec 3, 2022
TKO · R1 · 0:54 · Heavyweight
L
Ciryl Gane
UFC Fight Night: Gane vs Tuivasa · Sep 3, 2022
TKO · R3 · 4:23 · Heavyweight
W
Derrick Lewis
UFC 271: Adesanya vs Whittaker 2 · Feb 12, 2022
TKO · R2 · 1:40 · Heavyweight
W
Augusto Sakai
UFC 269: Oliveira vs Poirier · Dec 11, 2021
TKO · R2 · 0:26 · Heavyweight
W
Greg Hardy
UFC 264: Poirier vs McGregor 3 · Jul 10, 2021
TKO · R1 · 1:07 · Heavyweight
W
Harry Hunsucker
UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs Holland · Mar 20, 2021
TKO · R1 · 0:49 · Heavyweight
W
Stefan Struve
UFC 254: Khabib vs Gaethje · Oct 24, 2020
TKO · R1 · 4:59 · Heavyweight
L
Serghei Spivac
UFC 243: Whittaker vs Adesanya · Oct 6, 2019
Submission · R2 · 3:14 · Heavyweight
L
Blagoy Ivanov
UFC 238: Cejudo vs Moraes · Jun 8, 2019
Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Heavyweight
L
Junior Dos Santos
UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs Tuivasa · Dec 2, 2018
TKO · R2 · 2:30 · Heavyweight
W
Andrei Arlovski
UFC 225: Whittaker vs Romero · Jun 9, 2018
Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Heavyweight
W
Cyril Asker
UFC 221: Romero vs Rockhold · Feb 11, 2018
TKO · R1 · 2:18 · Heavyweight
W
Rashad Coulter
UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs Tybura · Nov 19, 2017
TKO · R1 · 4:35 · Heavyweight
W
James McSweeney
Australian FC 17 · Oct 15, 2016
TKO · R1 · 5:00 · Heavyweight
W
Brandon Sosoli
Australian FC 16 · Jun 18, 2016
TKO · R1 · 0:21 · Heavyweight
W
Gul Pohatu
Urban Fight Night 5 · Dec 12, 2015
TKO · R1 · 0:44 · Super Heavyweight
W
Erik Nosa
Gladiators Cage Fighting · Nov 9, 2012
TKO
W
Aaron Nieborak
Gladiators Cage Fighting · Aug 31, 2012
TKO
W
Simon Osborne
ECC 2 · Jul 6, 2012
TKO · R1 · 0:20 · Heavyweight

Head-to-Head History

UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs Holland
Sat, Dec 3, 2022
Sergei Pavlovich
TKO · ROUND 1 · 0:54

Common Opponents

How each fared against the same opponents.

Sergei PavlovichTai Tuivasa

Frequently asked questions

Have Sergei Pavlovich and Tai Tuivasa ever fought?

Yes, once. Most recently at UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs Holland (Sat, Dec 3, 2022), where Sergei Pavlovich won by TKO.

What are the records of Sergei Pavlovich and Tai Tuivasa?

Sergei Pavlovich is 21-3-0 and Tai Tuivasa is 15-11-0.

Who has the longer reach, Sergei Pavlovich or Tai Tuivasa?

Sergei Pavlovich has the longer reach: 84" · 213 cm against 75" · 191 cm for Tai Tuivasa, a 9" · 23 cm advantage.

Who is taller, Sergei Pavlovich or Tai Tuivasa?

Sergei Pavlovich is taller at 6'3" · 191 cm; Tai Tuivasa stands 6'2" · 188 cm.

Who is older, Sergei Pavlovich or Tai Tuivasa?

Sergei Pavlovich is 34 and Tai Tuivasa is 33.

Who has more finishes, Sergei Pavlovich or Tai Tuivasa?

Sergei Pavlovich has 16 wins inside the distance (16 by KO/TKO, 0 by submission); Tai Tuivasa has 13 wins (13 by KO/TKO, 0 by submission).

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