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Francisco Trinaldo

UFC 18-8Pro 28-9tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Francisco Trinaldo’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

UFC recordUFC 18-8 first fight 2012-06-23 · last fight 2022-10-01
Pro record28-9
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W W L W
DivisionWelterweight
Age48
Height5' 9"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 9" southpaw decision fighter campaigning at Welterweight. 18 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 11 decision. Top 18% of Welterweights: avoids 60% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameMassaranduba
NationalityBrazil
Hometown (per Sherdog)Brasilia, Federal District
CampBrazilian TKO
Height5' 9"
Reach70"
StanceSouthpaw
Age48
Date of birthAug 24, 1978
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record28-9
UFC recordUFC 18-8 first fight 2012-06-23 · last fight 2022-10-01
Finish split18 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 11 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Francisco Trinaldo has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Francisco Trinaldo in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Lightweight83 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 6 June 2016#11–15 · from the table of 26 September 2016No table on record · Oct 2016 – Nov 2016#11–15 · from the table of 7 November 2016#11–15 · from the table of 17 May 2017#11–15 · from the table of 30 October 2017#11–15 · from the table of 6 December 2017#11–15 · from the table of 26 June 2018No table on record · Aug 2018 – Aug 2018#11–15 · from the table of 24 September 2018No table on record · Oct 2018 – Oct 2018#11–15 · from the table of 31 October 2018#11–15 · from the table of 26 March 2019First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#11Lightweight · Feb 2017
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Apr 2019

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 Francisco Trinaldo’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 / min3.13
Striking accuracy45%
Strikes absorbed / min2.67
Striking defence60%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.98
Takedown accuracy42%
Takedown defence60%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.50

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight 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 Welterweight.
Striking56
Defence73
Grappling / TD38
Cardio31
Chin81
Fight IQ56

Strike zones

Strike zones

Francisco Trinaldo

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

HEAD61.0%ACC 36%BODY27.5%ACC 74%LEGS11.5%ACC 88%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 61% head / 28% body / 12% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
61.0% acc 36%−1.5 vs field
BODY
27.5% acc 74%+6.5 vs field
LEGS
11.5% acc 88%−5.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 70%CLINCH 17%GROUND 14%

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.

26 UFC fights · 1,009 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Francisco Trinaldo

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

0.98takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.98 landed per 15 minutes — −1.12 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS28
0.98 / 15m−1.12 vs field
ATTEMPTS27
2.33 / 15m−2.73 vs field
ACCURACY53
42%−4pp vs field
SUB ATT33
0.50 / 15m−0.83 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.27 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 Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 28-9. In the UFC: 18-8. Francisco Trinaldo’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

1 post-fight bonus since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2016-05-14FOTNFight of the NightYancy MedeirosUFC 198: Werdum vs Miocic

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 — 26 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2022-10-01LRandy BrownDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Yan
2022-05-07WDanny RobertsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje
2021-10-23WDwight GrantDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Costa vs. Vettori
2021-06-05LMuslim SalikhovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Sakai
2020-07-25WJai HerbertKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till
2020-03-14WJohn MakdessiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Lee vs. Oliveira
2019-11-16WKing GreenDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Jacare
2019-07-20LAlexander HernandezDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Edwards
2018-09-22WEvan DunhamKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Marreta vs. Anders
2018-02-18LJames VickDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Medeiros
2017-10-28WJim MillerDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Machida
2017-03-11LKevin LeeSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum
2016-09-24WPaul FelderTKO (doctor)R3UFC Fight Night: Cyborg vs. Lansberg
2016-05-14WYancy MedeirosDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 198: Werdum vs Miocic
2016-01-17WRoss PearsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs Cruz
2015-08-23WChad LapriseKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs Oliveira
2015-05-30WNorman ParkeDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Alves
2015-03-21WAkbarh ArreolaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Maia vs LaFlare
2014-09-13WLeandro SilvaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Arlovski
2014-05-24LMichael ChiesaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 173: Barao vs Dillashaw
2014-02-15WJesse RonsonDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Mousasi
2013-09-04LPiotr HallmannSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs Bader
2013-05-18WMike RioSubmissionR1UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold
2013-01-19WCJ KeithSubmissionR2UFC on FX: Belfort vs Bisping
2012-10-13LGleison TibauDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 153: Silva vs Bonnar
2012-06-23WDelson HelenoKO/TKOR1UFC 147: Silva vs Franklin 2

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 16 cities Francisco Trinaldo has fought a UFC bout in and the hometown 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 — 4 bouts, 2014–2022Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil — 3 bouts, 2014–2020Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil — 3 bouts, 2017–2019Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil — 2 bouts, 2012–2013Jaragua do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil — 2 bouts, 2013–2014Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 2 bouts, 2012–2015Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 1 bout, 2020Austin, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2018Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 1 bout, 2016Curitiba, Parana, Brazil — 1 bout, 2016Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil — 1 bout, 2017Goiania, Goias, Brazil — 1 bout, 2015Phoenix, Arizona, USA — 1 bout, 2022San Antonio, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2019Sao Paulo, Brazil — 1 bout, 2013Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada — 1 bout, 2015Hometown: Brasilia, Federal District

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

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