Built from Kamaru Usman’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder
6' 0" switch grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight. 16 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 11 decision. Top 12% of Middleweights: stuffs 90% of the takedowns tried on him and lands 4.13 significant strikes a minute.
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 | The Nigerian Nightmare |
| Nationality | Nigeria |
| Born in | Auchi, Edo, Nigeria Wikipedia |
| Fights out of | Denver, Colorado, United States Wikipedia |
| Camp | Kill Cliff FC |
| Height | 6' 0" |
| Reach | 76" |
| Stance | Switch |
| Age | 39 |
| Date of birth | May 11, 1987 |
| Weight | 185 lbs. |
| Pro record | 21-5 |
| UFC record | UFC 16-4 first fight 2015-07-12 · last fight 2026-07-18 |
| Finish split | 16 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 11 decision |
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Every week Kamaru Usman 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.
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 Kamaru Usman’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 Middleweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Every fight of Kamaru Usman’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 Kamaru Usman’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.
| Date | Opponent | We called it for | Confidence | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 | Dricus Du Plessis | Dricus Du Plessis (against Usman) | 54.3% | Correct |
Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Kamaru Usman’s fights, 1 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.
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 (6.86 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: 21-5. In the UFC: 16-4. Kamaru Usman’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.
5 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 3 Fight of the Night, 2 Performance of the Night.
| Date | Award | Opponent | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Dricus Du Plessis | UFC Fight Night: Du Plessis vs. Usman |
| 2025-06-14 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Joaquin Buckley | UFC Fight Night: Usman vs. Buckley |
| 2021-04-24 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Jorge Masvidal | UFC 261: Usman vs. Masvidal 2 |
| 2021-02-13 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Gilbert Burns | UFC 258: Usman vs. Burns |
| 2019-12-14 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Colby Covington | UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington |
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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 | L | Dricus Du Plessis | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Du Plessis vs. Usman |
| 2025-06-14 | W | Joaquin Buckley | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Usman vs. Buckley |
| 2023-10-21 | L | Khamzat Chimaev | Decision (majority) | R3 | UFC 294: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski 2 |
| 2023-03-18 | L | Leon Edwards | Decision (majority) | R5 | UFC 286: Edwards vs. Usman 3 |
| 2022-08-20 | L | Leon Edwards | KO/TKO | R5 | UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards |
| 2021-11-06 | W | Colby Covington | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 268: Usman vs. Covington 2 |
| 2021-04-24 | W | Jorge Masvidal | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 261: Usman vs. Masvidal 2 |
| 2021-02-13 | W | Gilbert Burns | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 258: Usman vs. Burns |
| 2020-07-11 | W | Jorge Masvidal | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 251: Usman vs. Masvidal |
| 2019-12-14 | W | Colby Covington | KO/TKO | R5 | UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington |
| 2019-03-02 | W | Tyron Woodley | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 235: Jones vs. Smith |
| 2018-11-30 | W | Rafael Dos Anjos | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | The Ultimate Fighter: Heavy Hitters Finale |
| 2018-05-19 | W | Demian Maia | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Usman |
| 2018-01-14 | W | Emil Meek | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Stephens vs. Choi |
| 2017-09-16 | W | Sergio Moraes | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Branch |
| 2017-04-08 | W | Sean Strickland | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2 |
| 2016-11-19 | W | Warlley Alves | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | — |
| 2016-07-23 | W | Alexander Yakovlev | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Holm vs. Shevchenko |
| 2015-12-19 | W | Leon Edwards | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 |
| 2015-07-12 | W | Hayder Hassan | Submission | R2 | The Ultimate Fighter: American Top Team vs. Blackzilians Finale |
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.
Kamaru Usman’s official weigh-in — the weight the commission read off the scale, and the limit it had to be under.
| Date | Opponent | Weight / limit | Division | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 | Dricus Du Plessis | 186 / 186 | MADE | Middleweight | UFC.com |
Weigh-in results cover the 31 UFC cards held in 2026 so far — 24 January 2026 to 12 September 2026. Earlier years are not on file yet, so a fighter with no row here is not a fighter who never missed weight.
The 14 cities Kamaru Usman 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.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.