Built from Rani Yahya’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler
5' 6" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Bantamweight. 13 UFC wins — 7 submission, 6 decision. Top 11% of Bantamweights: averages 1.8 submission attempts per 15 minutes and absorbs only 2.08 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 | pending |
| Nationality | Brazil |
| Born in | Brasília, Brazil Wikipedia |
| Fights out of | Brasília, Brazil Wikipedia |
| Camp | Constrictor Team |
| Height | 5' 6" |
| Reach | 67" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 42 |
| Date of birth | Sep 12, 1984 |
| Weight | 135 lbs. |
| Pro record | 28-12-1 |
| UFC record | UFC 13-6 (2 draws/NC) first fight 2011-01-22 · last fight 2024-04-27 |
| Finish split | 13 UFC wins — 7 submission, 6 decision |
| Social |
Every week Rani Yahya 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 Rani Yahya’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.
We have not called one of Rani Yahya’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.
Across our full back-tested history we called 2 of Rani Yahya’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 (5.50 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.
Pro record: 28-12-1. In the UFC: 13-6-2. Rani Yahya’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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-27 | L | Victor Henry | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Nicolau vs. Perez |
| 2023-04-22 | L | Montel Jackson | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Pavlovich vs. Blaydes |
| 2021-11-20 | W | Kyung Ho Kang | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate |
| 2021-03-13 | W | Ray Rodriguez | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Muhammad |
| 2020-03-14 | D | Enrique Barzola | Decision (majority) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Lee vs. Oliveira |
| 2019-02-09 | L | Ricky Simon | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 234: Adesanya vs. Silva |
| 2018-08-25 | W | Luke Sanders | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Gaethje vs. Vick |
| 2018-02-24 | W | Russell Doane | Submission | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Stephens |
| 2017-08-05 | W | Henry Briones | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Pettis vs. Moreno |
| 2017-03-11 | L | Joe Soto | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum |
| 2016-09-24 | W | Michinori Tanaka | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Cyborg vs. Lansberg |
| 2016-07-13 | W | Matthew Lopez | Submission | R3 | UFC Fight Night: McDonald vs. Lineker |
| 2015-07-15 | W | Masanori Kanehara | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Mir vs Duffee |
| 2014-09-13 | W | Johnny Bedford | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Arlovski |
| 2014-04-11 | D | Johnny Bedford | Could not continue | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Minotauro vs Nelson |
| 2013-11-30 | L | Tom Niinimaki | Decision (split) | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate Finale |
| 2013-08-03 | W | Josh Clopton | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 163: Aldo vs Jung |
| 2013-03-02 | W | Mizuto Hirota | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FUEL TV: Silva vs. Stann |
| 2012-08-04 | W | Josh Grispi | Submission | R1 | UFC on FOX: Shogun vs Vera |
| 2011-08-06 | L | Chad Mendes | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 133: Evans vs Ortiz 2 |
| 2011-01-22 | W | Mike Brown | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Fight for the Troops 2 |
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 15 cities Rani Yahya 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.