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Mario Bautista

UFC 12-3Pro 18-3Ranked #5 · Bantamweighttale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Mario Bautista’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Volume striker

UFC recordUFC 12-3 first fight 2019-01-19 · last fight 2026-07-11
Pro record18-3
Current streak2 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W L W W
DivisionBantamweight
Age33
Height5' 9"
StanceSwitch

5' 9" switch volume striker campaigning at Bantamweight. 12 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 7 decision. Top 6% of Bantamweights: lands 5.52 significant strikes a minute and connects with 50% of his significant strikes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
Born inWinnemucca, Nevada, United States Wikipedia
Fights out ofScottsdale, Arizona, United States Wikipedia
CampMMA Lab
Height5' 9"
Reach69"
StanceSwitch
Age33
Date of birthJul 01, 1993
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record18-3
UFC recordUFC 12-3 first fight 2019-01-19 · last fight 2026-07-11
Finish split12 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 7 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Mario Bautista 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.

Mario Bautista in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Bantamweight140 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 16 January 2024#6–10 · from the table of 8 October 2024No table on record · Dec 2024 – Jan 2025#6–10 · from the table of 14 January 2025#1–5 · from the table of 14 July 2026First rankedRanked today
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#4Bantamweight · Jul 2026
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–513on the published tables, title reigns aside
Current#5Bantamweight · 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 Mario Bautista’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 / min5.52
Striking accuracy50%
Strikes absorbed / min4.17
Striking defence54%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.49
Takedown accuracy38%
Takedown defence57%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.10

FightIQ Metrics

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.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Bantamweight.
Striking87
Defence43
Grappling / TD65
Cardio95
Chin60
Fight IQ70

Our calls on Mario Bautista’s fights

Every fight of Mario Bautista’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 2 of Mario Bautista’s fights in 2026: 0 correct (0–2 — 0% 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
2026-07-11Cory SandhagenCory Sandhagen (against Bautista)54.1%Missed
2026-02-07Vinicius OliveiraVinicius Oliveira (against Bautista)53.8%Missed
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 6 of Mario Bautista’s fights, 5 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

Mario Bautista

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

HEAD61.5%ACC 41%BODY26.0%ACC 79%LEGS12.5%ACC 84%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 62% head / 26% body / 12% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
61.5% acc 41%−0.1 vs field
BODY
26.0% acc 79%+4.1 vs field
LEGS
12.5% acc 84%−4.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 80%CLINCH 13%GROUND 7%

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.

15 UFC fights · 864 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Mario Bautista

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

2.49takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.49 landed per 15 minutes — +0.39 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS69
2.49 / 15m+0.39 vs field
ATTEMPTS69
6.55 / 15m+0.94 vs field
ACCURACY52
38%−3pp vs field
SUB ATT74
1.10 / 15m+0.02 vs field

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.

Ranked in Bantamweight

Recent form

Pro record: 18-3. In the UFC: 12-3. Mario Bautista’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

4 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night, 3 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2026-02-07POTNPerformance of the NightVinicius OliveiraUFC Fight Night: Bautista vs. Oliveira
2022-11-05POTNPerformance of the NightBenito LopezUFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Lemos
2020-02-08POTNPerformance of the NightMiles JohnsUFC 247: Jones vs. Reyes
2019-07-20FOTNFight of the NightJin Soo SonUFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Edwards

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 — 15 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-07-11WCory SandhagenDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2
2026-02-07WVinicius OliveiraSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Bautista vs. Oliveira
2025-10-25LUmar NurmagomedovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 321: Aspinall vs. Gane
2025-06-07WPatchy MixDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2
2024-10-05WJose AldoDecision (split)R3UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr.
2024-01-13WRicky SimonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2
2023-08-19WDa'Mon BlackshearDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley
2023-03-11WGuido CannettiSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Dvalishvili
2022-11-05WBenito LopezSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Lemos
2022-06-25WBrian KelleherSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Gamrot
2022-02-19WJay PerrinDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Hill
2021-03-06LTrevin JonesKO/TKOR2UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya
2020-02-08WMiles JohnsKO/TKOR2UFC 247: Jones vs. Reyes
2019-07-20WJin Soo SonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Edwards
2019-01-19LCory SandhagenSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Dillashaw

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 scale

Mario Bautista’s official weigh-ins — the weight the commission read off the scale, and the limit it had to be under.

DateOpponentWeight / limitDivisionSource
2026-07-11Cory Sandhagen135.5 / 136MADEBantamweightUFC.com
2026-02-07Vinicius Oliveira135.5 / 136MADEBantamweightUFC.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.

On the map

The 8 cities Mario Bautista 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 — 8 bouts, 2021–2026Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 1 bout, 2025Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 1 bout, 2023Brooklyn, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2019Houston, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2020Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2025Salt Lake City, Utah, USA — 1 bout, 2024San Antonio, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2019Camp: MMA Lab

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

Fantasy matchups

Fights that have never been made, between fighters who are ranked right now. Our read on each one is on its own page, with no betting market behind it — because there is no market on a fight nobody has booked. None of it is a pick, and none of it is graded.

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