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A 14-5 lightweight from Azerbaijan who fights out of a switch stance and sits at #11 in one of the deepest divisions in the sport.
Rafael Fiziev, nicknamed “Ataman,” is a lightweight fighter representing Azerbaijan. He carries a professional record of 14-5-0 and is currently ranked #11 in the Lightweight division — a spot that puts him squarely inside the top tier of a weight class famous for its depth. In a division where a single ranking number can separate a contender from a gatekeeper, holding a top-15 position says he belongs among the names people argue about.
The headline facts are simple: fourteen wins, five losses, and a place in the rankings. But the story that a record and a rank tell only gets interesting when you look at how he’s built to fight.
Everything below comes straight from the physical profile, and it paints a clear picture of the kind of fighter Fiziev is:
The number that jumps out is the reach. At 5’ 8", Fiziev carries a 71.5" span — long arms relative to his height, which is a real asset at lightweight. Length like that lets a fighter measure distance, keep opponents at the end of his strikes, and touch them before they touch him.
Then there’s the switch stance. Fiziev doesn’t lock into orthodox or southpaw — he moves between them. On paper, that’s the mark of a striker who wants to keep his opponent guessing about which side the next shot is coming from, and who can attack angles that a one-stance fighter simply can’t reach. Combine a switch stance with that reach advantage and you get a puzzle: the target keeps moving, the range keeps shifting, and the openings keep changing.
At 33, he’s an experienced fighter rather than a raw prospect — deep enough into a career to have seen the level, but still ranked #11 in the thick of the mix.
His last five outings show a fighter trading wins and losses at a serious level:
Read across that run and you see the resume of a fighter operating at the top of the division — names like Justin Gaethje and Mateusz Gamrot are exactly who you meet when you’re ranked in the top 15. The two wins, over Manuel Torres and Ignacio Bahamondes, keep him relevant and remind everyone why he sits where he sits. The losses came against elite company. This is the reality of the #11 slot: every fight is a test, and there are no easy nights.
Rafael Fiziev is exactly the kind of fighter who makes the lightweight picture worth watching: ranked, experienced, and built with tools — reach and a switch stance — that create problems on paper and drama in the cage. Keep an eye on “Ataman,” and when his next bout lands, build your grid and call the winner.