Built from Rafael Dos Anjos’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder
5' 8" southpaw all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 21 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 12 decision.
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 | pending |
| Nationality | Brazil |
| Born in | Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Wikipedia |
| Fights out of | Huntington Beach, California, United States Wikipedia |
| Camp | pending |
| Height | 5' 8" |
| Reach | 70" |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Age | 41 |
| Date of birth | Oct 26, 1984 |
| Weight | 155 lbs. |
| Pro record | 32-18 |
| UFC record | UFC 21-16 first fight 2008-11-15 · last fight 2026-10-03 |
| Finish split | 21 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 12 decision |
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Every week Rafael Dos Anjos has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, 3 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 Rafael Dos Anjos’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 Lightweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Every fight of Rafael Dos Anjos’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 Rafael Dos Anjos’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-03 | Alexander Hernandez | Alexander Hernandez (against Anjos) | 76.1% | Correct |
Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Rafael Dos Anjos’s fights, 2 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 (5.19 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: 32-18. In the UFC: 21-16. Rafael Dos Anjos’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.
8 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 3 Fight of the Night, 4 Performance of the Night, 1 Submission of the Night.
| Date | Award | Opponent | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-14 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Paul Felder | UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Dos Anjos |
| 2017-09-09 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Neil Magny | UFC 215: Nunes vs Shevchenko 2 |
| 2016-11-05 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Tony Ferguson | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Ferguson |
| 2015-12-19 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Donald Cerrone | UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 |
| 2015-03-14 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Anthony Pettis | UFC 185: Pettis vs Dos Anjos |
| 2014-08-23 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Benson Henderson | — |
| 2010-04-10 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Terry Etim | UFC 112: Invincible |
| 2009-04-01 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Tyson Griffin | UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-03 | L | Alexander Hernandez | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 332: Silva vs. Wang |
| 2024-10-26 | L | Geoff Neal | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway |
| 2024-03-09 | L | Mateusz Gamrot | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2 |
| 2023-08-12 | L | Vicente Luque | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Dos Anjos |
| 2022-12-03 | W | Bryan Barberena | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland |
| 2022-07-09 | L | Rafael Fiziev | KO/TKO | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Fiziev |
| 2022-03-05 | W | Renato Moicano | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 272: Covington vs. Masvidal |
| 2020-11-14 | W | Paul Felder | Decision (split) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Dos Anjos |
| 2020-01-25 | L | Michael Chiesa | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Dos Santos |
| 2019-07-20 | L | Leon Edwards | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Edwards |
| 2019-05-18 | W | Kevin Lee | Submission | R4 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Lee |
| 2018-11-30 | L | Kamaru Usman | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | The Ultimate Fighter: Heavy Hitters Finale |
| 2018-06-09 | L | Colby Covington | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 |
| 2017-12-16 | W | Robbie Lawler | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Lawler vs. Dos Anjos |
| 2017-09-09 | W | Neil Magny | Submission | R1 | UFC 215: Nunes vs Shevchenko 2 |
| 2017-06-17 | W | Tarec Saffiedine | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Correia |
| 2016-11-05 | L | Tony Ferguson | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Ferguson |
| 2016-07-07 | L | Eddie Alvarez | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Alvarez |
| 2015-12-19 | W | Donald Cerrone | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 |
| 2015-03-14 | W | Anthony Pettis | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 185: Pettis vs Dos Anjos |
| 2014-12-13 | W | Nate Diaz | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Dos Santos vs Miocic |
| 2014-08-23 | W | Benson Henderson | KO/TKO | R1 | — |
| 2014-06-07 | W | Jason High | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs Khabilov |
| 2014-04-19 | L | Khabib Nurmagomedov | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Werdum vs Browne |
| 2013-08-28 | W | Donald Cerrone | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann 2 |
| 2013-05-18 | W | Evan Dunham | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold |
| 2012-11-17 | W | Mark Bocek | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 154: St-Pierre vs Condit |
| 2012-07-11 | W | Anthony Njokuani | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FUEL TV: Munoz vs Weidman |
| 2012-05-15 | W | Kamal Shalorus | Submission | R1 | UFC on FUEL TV: Korean Zombie vs Poirier |
| 2011-11-19 | L | Gleison Tibau | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 139: Shogun vs Henderson |
| 2011-07-02 | W | George Sotiropoulos | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 132: Cruz vs Faber |
| 2010-08-07 | L | Clay Guida | Submission | R3 | UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen |
| 2010-04-10 | W | Terry Etim | Submission | R2 | UFC 112: Invincible |
| 2010-01-11 | W | Kyle Bradley | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz |
| 2009-09-19 | W | Rob Emerson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 103: Franklin vs Belfort |
| 2009-04-01 | L | Tyson Griffin | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann |
| 2008-11-15 | L | Jeremy Stephens | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 91: Couture vs Lesnar |
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 24 cities Rafael Dos Anjos has fought a UFC bout in. 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.
