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Niklas Bäckström

11–4 · 18 recorded bouts · 2007–2022

MMA record

11–4

Niklas Bäckström finished 73% of 11 wins inside the distance — the 56th percentile for lightweight MMA, where the median is 69%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

200020102020win v Jonas Forssell, 2007, submissionwin v Victor Garabedian, 2007, submissionwin v Gabriel Mboge Nesje, 2009, submissionwin v Simon Sköld, 2010, kowin v Adam Edwards, 2011, decisionnc v Elias Kunnas, 2011win v Thomas Hytten, 2012, kowin v Sergej Grecicho, 2012, decisionwin v Jaakko Vayrynen, 2013, koloss v Mike Wilkinson, 2014, kowin v Tom Niinimaki, 2014, submissionwin v Max Coga, 2014, kowin v Georgi Stoyanov, 2015, submissionloss v Noad Lahat, 2015, decisionwin v Joni Salovaara, 2016, decisionwin v Danijel Kokora, 2016, submissionloss v Andrew Fisher, 2017, decisionloss v Sebastian Rajewski, 2022, decision
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2007–2022

SOURCE·Niklas Bäckström (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-01-06

How this record is compiled

  1. Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2025-01-06. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
  2. A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
  3. A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
  4. Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
  5. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 304 lightweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Bout record

Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2022 L Sebastian Rajewski Decision3
2017 L Andrew Fisher Decision3
2016 W Joni Salovaara Decision3
2016 W Danijel Kokora Submission1
2015 W Georgi Stoyanov Submission1
2015 L Noad Lahat Decision3
2014 L Mike Wilkinson KO/TKO1
2014 W Tom Niinimaki Submission1
2014 W Max Coga KO/TKO1
2013 W Jaakko Vayrynen KO/TKO2
2012 W Thomas Hytten KO/TKO2
2012 W Sergej Grecicho Decision3
2011 W Adam Edwards Decision3
2011 N Elias Kunnas —1
2010 W Simon Sköld KO/TKO3
2009 W Gabriel Mboge Nesje Submission1
2007 W Jonas Forssell Submission2
2007 W Victor Garabedian Submission1

3 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Niklas Bäckström (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-01-06

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height72″ (182.9 cm)
Stance—
DivisionLightweight MMA
competed at 2: featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade2010s — 14 of 18 dated bouts
CountrySweden

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Niklas Bäckström, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

2010 2020 win vs Jonas Forssell (2007)win vs Victor Garabedian (2007)win vs Gabriel Mboge Nesje (2009)win vs Simon Sköld (2010)win vs Adam Edwards (2011)nc vs Elias Kunnas (2011)win vs Thomas Hytten (2012)win vs Sergej Grecicho (2012)win vs Jaakko Vayrynen (2013)loss vs Mike Wilkinson (2014)win vs Tom Niinimaki (2014)win vs Max Coga (2014)win vs Georgi Stoyanov (2015)loss vs Noad Lahat (2015)win vs Joni Salovaara (2016)win vs Danijel Kokora (2016)loss vs Andrew Fisher (2017)loss vs Sebastian Rajewski (2022)
winlossdraw / NC2007–2022

Record

MMA record

11–4

15 bouts on record

Finish rate

73%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 56th percentile

KO/TKO: 4 (36%)Submission: 4 (36%)Decision: 3 (27%)
  • KO/TKO 36%
  • Submission 36%
  • Decision 27%

The career, bout by bout

18 recorded bouts from 2007 to 2022. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

16y

2007–2022

Longest unbeaten run

8

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2014

3 bouts

Recorded bouts

18

18 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Niklas Bäckström's record?
11–4 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 18 bouts individually.
Does a no contest change a record here?
No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

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