Not the Michael McDonald you were looking for? A second fighter of this name is in our source data: Michael McDonald (b. 1965).
Built from Michael McDonald’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder
5' 9" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Bantamweight. 6 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 2 decision. Top 8% of Bantamweights: completes 66% of his takedown attempts and averages 1.4 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.
| Nickname | The Black Sniper |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown (per Sherdog) | Modesto, California |
| Camp | Last Stand Fight Team |
| Height | 5' 9" |
| Reach | 70" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 35 |
| Date of birth | Jan 15, 1991 |
| Weight | 135 lbs. |
| Pro record | Withheld. The official UFC results contradict the career record we were given, so we publish none rather than a wrong one. |
| Finish split | 6 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 2 decision |
Every week Michael McDonald 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 Michael McDonald’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.
In the UFC: 6-3. Michael McDonald’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 — 2 Fight of the Night, 1 Performance of the Night, 1 Knockout of the Night, 1 Submission of the Night.
| Date | Award | Opponent | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-02 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Masanori Kanehara | UFC 195: Lawler vs Condit |
| 2013-08-17 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Brad Pickett | UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Sonnen |
| 2013-08-17 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Brad Pickett | UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Sonnen |
| 2011-11-19 | KOTN | Knockout of the Night | Alex Soto | UFC 139: Shogun vs Henderson |
| 2011-03-26 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Edwin Figueroa | UFC Fight Night: Nogueira vs Davis |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-07-13 | L | John Lineker | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: McDonald vs. Lineker |
| 2016-01-02 | W | Masanori Kanehara | Submission | R2 | UFC 195: Lawler vs Condit |
| 2013-12-14 | L | Urijah Faber | Submission | R2 | UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Benavidez 2 |
| 2013-08-17 | W | Brad Pickett | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Sonnen |
| 2013-02-16 | L | Renan Barao | Submission | R4 | UFC on FUEL TV: Barao vs McDonald |
| 2012-04-21 | W | Miguel Torres | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 145: Jones vs Evans |
| 2011-11-19 | W | Alex Soto | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 139: Shogun vs Henderson |
| 2011-05-28 | W | Chris Cariaso | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 130: Rampage vs Hamill |
| 2011-03-26 | W | Edwin Figueroa | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Nogueira vs Davis |
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 8 cities Michael McDonald 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.