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Alexandre Pantoja

UFC 14-5Pro 30-7Ranked #1 · Flyweight#14 Men's Pound-for-Poundtale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Alexandre Pantoja’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler

UFC recordUFC 14-5 first fight 2017-01-28 · last fight 2026-09-19
Pro record30-7
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W W
DivisionFlyweight
Age36
Height5' 5"
StanceOrthodox

5' 5" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Flyweight. 14 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 6 submission, 6 decision. Top 15% of Flyweights: lands 4.54 significant strikes a minute.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameThe Cannibal
NationalityBrazil
Born inRio de Janeiro, Brazil Wikipedia
Fights out ofArraial do Cabo, Brazil Wikipedia
CampAmerican Top Team
Height5' 5"
Reach67"
StanceOrthodox
Age36
Date of birthApr 16, 1990
Weight125 lbs.
Pro record30-7
UFC recordUFC 14-5 first fight 2017-01-28 · last fight 2026-09-19
Finish split14 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 6 submission, 6 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Alexandre Pantoja has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, 2 of them, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Alexandre Pantoja in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Flyweight472 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 1 February 2017No table on record · Aug 2017 – Sep 2017#11–15 · from the table of 4 September 2017No table on record · Apr 2018 – May 2018#11–15 · from the table of 16 May 2018#6–10 · from the table of 23 May 2018No table on record · Aug 2018 – Aug 2018#6–10 · from the table of 29 August 2018No table on record · Oct 2018 – Oct 2018#6–10 · from the table of 31 October 2018#1–5 · from the table of 4 February 2019#6–10 · from the table of 11 February 2019#1–5 · from the table of 1 April 2019No table on record · Nov 2019 – Dec 2019#1–5 · from the table of 10 December 2019No table on record · Dec 2019 – Jan 2020#1–5 · from the table of 20 January 2020No table on record · Mar 2020 – May 2020#1–5 · from the table of 11 May 2020No table on record · Dec 2020 – Jan 2021#1–5 · from the table of 18 January 2021No table on record · Dec 2021 – Jan 2022#1–5 · from the table of 17 January 2022No table on record · Dec 2022 – Jan 2023#1–5 · from the table of 17 January 2023Champion · from the table of 11 July 2023No table on record · Dec 2024 – Jan 2025Champion · from the table of 14 January 2025#1–5 · from the table of 9 December 2025First rankedBelt wonRanked todayPound-for-pound167 weeks on the tables#6–10 · from the table of 11 July 2023#11–15 · from the table of 30 July 2024#6–10 · from the table of 10 December 2024No table on record · Dec 2024 – Jan 2025#6–10 · from the table of 14 January 2025#1–5 · from the table of 1 July 2025#6–10 · from the table of 9 December 2025#11–15 · from the table of 12 May 2026First rankedRanked today
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
PeakChampionFlyweight · Jul 2023
Weeks as champion123on the published tables
Weeks at #1–5247on the published tables, title reigns aside
Current#1Flyweight · Oct 2026

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 6 October 2026

A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.

Career rates facts

Career averages over Alexandre Pantoja’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min4.54
Striking accuracy50%
Strikes absorbed / min4.23
Striking defence48%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.82
Takedown accuracy44%
Takedown defence69%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.90

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Flyweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Flyweight.
Striking80
Defence32
Grappling / TD61
Cardio68
Chin69
Fight IQ62

Our calls on Alexandre Pantoja’s fights

Every fight of Alexandre Pantoja’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 1 of Alexandre Pantoja’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-09-19Joshua VanJoshua Van (against Pantoja)69.2%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 6 of Alexandre Pantoja’s fights, 4 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Alexandre Pantoja

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD63.3%ACC 42%BODY21.3%ACC 75%LEGS15.4%ACC 80%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 63% head / 21% body / 15% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
63.3% acc 42%+0.0 vs field
BODY
21.3% acc 75%+0.6 vs field
LEGS
15.4% acc 80%−0.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 82%CLINCH 10%GROUND 8%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

19 UFC fights · 1,088 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Alexandre Pantoja

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

2.82takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.82 landed per 15 minutes — +0.65 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS69
2.82 / 15m+0.65 vs field
ATTEMPTS67
6.41 / 15m+0.78 vs field
ACCURACY63
44%+1pp vs field
SUB ATT52
0.90 / 15m−0.33 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

Ranked in Flyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 30-7. In the UFC: 14-5. Alexandre Pantoja’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

Post-fight bonuses

7 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 3 Fight of the Night, 4 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2026-09-19FOTNFight of the NightJoshua VanUFC 331: Van vs. Pantoja 2
2024-12-07POTNPerformance of the NightKai AsakuraUFC 310: Pantoja vs. Asakura
2023-07-08FOTNFight of the NightBrandon MorenoUFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez
2022-07-30POTNPerformance of the NightAlex PerezUFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2
2021-08-21POTNPerformance of the NightBrandon RoyvalUFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Gastelum
2019-12-21POTNPerformance of the NightMatt SchnellUFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. The Korean Zombie
2019-07-27FOTNFight of the NightDeiveson FigueiredoUFC 240: Holloway vs. Edgar

The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.

Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 245 of 1,339 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.

Full UFC career — 19 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-09-19LJoshua VanDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 331: Van vs. Pantoja 2
2025-12-06LJoshua VanKO/TKOR1UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2
2025-06-28WKai Kara-FranceSubmissionR3UFC 317: Topuria vs. Oliveira
2024-12-07WKai AsakuraSubmissionR2UFC 310: Pantoja vs. Asakura
2024-05-04WSteve ErcegDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 301: Pantoja vs. Erceg
2023-12-16WBrandon RoyvalDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington
2023-07-08WBrandon MorenoDecision (split)R5UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez
2022-07-30WAlex PerezSubmissionR1UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2
2021-08-21WBrandon RoyvalSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Gastelum
2021-02-06WManel KapeDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov
2020-07-18LAskar AskarovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Figueiredo vs. Benavidez 2
2019-12-21WMatt SchnellKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. The Korean Zombie
2019-07-27LDeiveson FigueiredoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 240: Holloway vs. Edgar
2019-04-13WWilson ReisKO/TKOR1UFC 236: Holloway vs. Poirier 2
2018-11-17WYuta SasakiSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Ponzinibbio
2018-05-19WBrandon MorenoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Usman
2018-01-20LDustin OrtizDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou
2017-07-16WNeil SeerySubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Ponzinibbio
2017-01-28WEric SheltonDecision (split)R3UFC on FOX: Shevchenko vs. Pena

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

On the map

The 13 cities Alexandre Pantoja has fought a UFC bout in and the camp on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 7 bouts, 2021–2025Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 1 bout, 2020Atlanta, Georgia, USA — 1 bout, 2019Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 1 bout, 2018Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina — 1 bout, 2018Busan, South Korea — 1 bout, 2019Dallas, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2022Denver, Colorado, USA — 1 bout, 2017Edmonton, Alberta, Canada — 1 bout, 2019Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2017Los Angeles, California, USA — 1 bout, 2026Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 1 bout, 2024Santiago, Chile — 1 bout, 2018Camp: American Top Team

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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