Built from Joe Soto’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder
5' 6" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Bantamweight. 3 UFC wins — 2 submission, 1 decision. Top 7% of Bantamweights: avoids 67% of the strikes thrown at him and averages 1.9 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
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.
| Nickname | One Bad Mofo |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown (per Sherdog) | Porterville, California |
| Camp | Central Valley Combat Academy |
| Height | 5' 6" |
| Reach | 65" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 39 |
| Date of birth | Mar 22, 1987 |
| Weight | 135 lbs. |
| Pro record | 18-7 |
| UFC record | UFC 3-5 first fight 2014-08-30 · last fight 2018-02-03 |
| Finish split | 3 UFC wins — 2 submission, 1 decision |
| Social |
Every week Joe Soto 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.
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 averages over Joe Soto’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.
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Bantamweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.50 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.
Pro record: 18-7. In the UFC: 3-5. Joe Soto’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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-02-03 | L | Iuri Alcantara | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders |
| 2017-12-01 | L | Brett Johns | Submission | R1 | The Ultimate Fighter: A New World Champion Finale |
| 2017-03-11 | W | Rani Yahya | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum |
| 2016-11-05 | W | Marco Beltran | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Ferguson |
| 2016-06-18 | W | Chris Beal | Submission | R3 | UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs Thompson |
| 2016-01-02 | L | Michinori Tanaka | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 195: Lawler vs Condit |
| 2015-06-06 | L | Anthony Birchak | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Boetsch vs Henderson |
| 2014-08-30 | L | TJ Dillashaw | KO/TKO | R5 | UFC 177: Dillashaw vs Soto |
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.
The 7 cities Joe Soto 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.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.