Middleweight MMA
Khamzat Chimaev vs Li Jingliang
A fight that actually happened — and everything both records say about it.
Meetings on record
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Khamzat Chimaev and Li Jingliang met once (2021). Khamzat Chimaev won in 2021 by submission.
SOURCE·Khamzat Chimaev and Li Jingliang — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·both records name the other·REVIEWED AUG 2026
How this head-to-head is established
- This pairing exists only because at least one of the two articles' own results tables names the other fighter. No matchup on this site is speculative and none is a hypothetical.
- Every figure in the comparison below comes from that fighter's own page and carries the same source line. A dash means the source states nothing, not that the value is zero.
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- Nothing on this page predicts an outcome. It is a comparison of what is on record.
Side by side
| Khamzat Chimaev | Li Jingliang | |
|---|---|---|
| 75″ (190.5 cm) | Reach | 72″ (182.9 cm) |
| 74″ (188 cm) | Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) |
| +1.33% | Reach advantage | 0% |
| 15–1 | Record | 19–9 |
| 80% | Finish rate | 74% |
| 18 | Longest unbeaten run | 7 |
| 19 | Recorded bouts | 28 |
| Orthodox | Stance | — |
A comparison of what is on record. Nothing here predicts a result.
Both records, drawn
The same ledger line on each: wins stamped above the rule, losses below, the mark's shape carrying how it ended.
Khamzat Chimaev
Li Jingliang
Cross-references
Where this pairing leads
Khamzat Chimaev
The full ledger: 19 bouts, the reach placed in its cohort, and what the record does not say.
15–1 Li JingliangThe same, from the other corner — 28 bouts and the cohort Jingliang is ranked inside.
19–9 Every confirmed matchupThe other 899 pairings whose own records confirm the fight happened — not a list of fights anyone imagined.
900 BOUTS