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Nicco Montano

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FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 1-1 first fight 2017-12-01 · last fight 2019-07-13
Pro record5-3
Current streak1 loss
Last 2 (UFC)L W
DivisionWomen's Bantamweight
Age37
Height5' 5"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 5" southpaw volume striker campaigning at Women's Bantamweight. 1 UFC win — 1 decision. Top 8% of Women's Bantamweights: lands 5.6 significant strikes a minute and avoids 64% of the strikes thrown at her.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
Hometown (per Sherdog)Lukachukai, Arizona
CampFit NHB
Height5' 5"
Reach65"
StanceSouthpaw
Age37
Date of birthDec 16, 1988
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record5-3
UFC recordUFC 1-1 first fight 2017-12-01 · last fight 2019-07-13
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Nicco Montano 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.

Nicco Montano in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Women's Flyweight46 weeks on the tablesChampion · from the table of 6 December 2017No table on record · Apr 2018 – May 2018Champion · from the table of 16 May 2018No table on record · Aug 2018 – Aug 2018Champion · from the table of 29 August 2018#1–5 · from the table of 12 September 2018No table on record · Oct 2018 – Oct 2018#1–5 · from the table of 31 October 2018Last rankedWomen's Bantamweight33 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 12 August 2019No table on record · Nov 2019 – Dec 2019#11–15 · from the table of 10 December 2019No table on record · Dec 2019 – Jan 2020#11–15 · from the table of 20 January 2020No table on record · Mar 2020 – May 2020#11–15 · from the table of 11 May 2020Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
PeakChampionWomen's Flyweight · Dec 2017
Weeks as champion35on the published tables
Weeks at #1–511on the published tables, title reigns aside
CurrentUnrankedsince Jun 2020

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 Nicco Montano’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on her official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min5.60
Striking accuracy41%
Strikes absorbed / min4.43
Striking defence64%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.25
Takedown accuracy54%
Takedown defence69%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Women's 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 Women's Bantamweight.
Striking65
Defence59
Grappling / TD67
Cardio88
Chin limited sample39
Fight IQ64

Strike zones

Strike zones

Nicco Montano

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

HEAD67.4%ACC 34%BODY10.3%ACC 70%LEGS22.3%ACC 91%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 22.3% to the legs — +6.5 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
67.4% acc 34%+6.2 vs field
BODY
10.3% acc 70%−12.7 vs field
LEGS
22.3% acc 91%+6.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 84%CLINCH 7%GROUND 9%

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.

Limited sample2 UFC fights · 224 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Nicco Montano

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

2.25takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 2.25 takedowns per 15 minutes at 54% completion — +13pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS78
2.25 / 15m+0.57 vs field
ATTEMPTS59
4.17 / 15m−0.04 vs field
ACCURACY81
54%+13pp vs field
SUB ATT43
0.40 / 15m−0.32 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.00 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 Women's Bantamweight

Recent form

Pro record: 5-3. In the UFC: 1-1. Nicco Montano’s last 2 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
2017-12-01FOTNFight of the NightRoxanne ModafferiThe Ultimate Fighter: A New World Champion Finale

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 — 2 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2019-07-13LJulianna PenaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: De Randamie vs. Ladd
2017-12-01WRoxanne ModafferiDecision (unanimous)R5The Ultimate Fighter: A New World Champion 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.

On the map

The 2 cities Nicco Montano has fought a UFC bout in, the camp on the record 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 — 1 bout, 2017Sacramento, California, USA — 1 bout, 2019Camp: Fit NHBHometown: Lukachukai, Arizona

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

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