Nearly half of UFC fights since July 1 have ended in knockouts, against 31% over the previous eight years. Lopsided matchmaking accounts for a small part of the jump, and the bigger finish bonuses arrived five months before it began.
Read →Regina Tarin carries the widest disagreement with the market on the card, 11.5 percentage points. Manon Fiorot and Curtis Blaydes draw no conviction at all.
Read →Salahdine Parnasse finished Dan Hooker in the first round at 84.2%. Every pick the model got wrong was a bout where the favorite lost.
Read →Five straight wins, the longest active streak at 115 pounds, and a first-round finish of a former title challenger in her own country.
Read →Two LOCK picks, four HIGH, and five of the six projected to go to a decision.
Read →The former lightweight champion meets Alexander Hernandez in Salt Lake City in what will be the 50th fight of his career.
Read →The welterweight lost a unanimous decision to Islam Makhachev this month, and the UFC analyst says it costs him nothing.
Read →The Nevada State Athletic Commission is set to take up a review next week, and the money from Steveson's July win may be held.
Read →The former interim welterweight champion says he has signed for submission grappling matches, months after retiring from UFC competition.
Read →Two of our four LOCK picks lost, both by submission. The model graded 6 of 11 winners on the Aug. 15 card.
Read →Makhachev and Machado Garry headline Saturday, and our model flagged neither championship bout.
Read →Our model had the right winner and the wrong method.
Read →The Ultimate Fighter season 11 winner is closing a 16-year, 24-fight run on the UFC roster.
Read →Twelve fights at the APEX, five decisions, and a 35-second finish that ended Darren Elkins' 31-fight UFC run.
Read →The model called every winner at UFC Vegas 120. That is one card of 12 fights, and the method column still went 5 of 12.
Read →Alexia Thainara and Ty Miller are the only two fights our model flags on a 12-bout card at the APEX.
Read →Twelve of 14 fights ended inside the distance in Serbia; our model took the winners and lost the methods.
Read →What our model says about all 12 fights at the APEX before anyone throws a punch.
Read →A UFC career that began in 2010 ends Saturday in Las Vegas, on a date he chose himself.
Read →Only two fights on the Aug. 1 card in Serbia reached the scorecards.
Read →The winner column held up on the Aug. 1 card. The method column did not, for the second card running.
Read →Medic vs. Rodriguez tops 14 fights in Serbia, and two of our flagged picks come with caveats we would rather state than bury.
Read →The week's reported news: a promotional merger, a Moscow headliner, a Shanghai addition and a callout.
Read →Friday, July 31: one LOCK in Serbia, a merged PFL and MVP, and Chimaev's return in Moscow.
Read →A former champion begins his climb back against a short-notice contender, hours after the card lost a bout when a 12-1 prospect was hospitalized.
Read →Eight of 12 fights ended inside the distance at Etihad Arena, and the main event was the only bout to get past the third round.
Read →Both flagged picks landed and both misses came from the bottom of our confidence range. The method column was the weak spot.
Read →A confirmed Pitbull-Choi featherweight bout and a reported Moicano-Ortega rematch stack up on the Sept. 19 Los Angeles card, while the expected Tsarukyan-Oliveira headline stays unofficial.
Read →Ankalaev begins his climb back tonight in Abu Dhabi, the card lost a fight on the day, and UFC 331 is building. What's on, and where our numbers stand.
Read →Du Plessis swept the scorecards at Paycom Center over the full five rounds of the middleweight main event.
Read →We hit the main event and seven others, and missed four.
Read →Holloway ended McGregor's comeback and our model called it; tonight it's Du Plessis vs. Usman in Oklahoma City. The autopsy, the build, and an honest hold on tonight's number.
Read →Islam Makhachev, Frankie Edgar and Du Plessis's own coach have circled the same fight-week question about Kamaru Usman's move to middleweight: can his knees still carry his wrestling?
Read →McGregor's back Saturday after 1,827 days, the fight world is split on it, and the model won't fake a read. UFC 329 week, plus the bookings and where our numbers stand.
Read →UFC 329 is set for July 11 with start times and the full card out. Dan Hooker tips his cap, Georges St-Pierre talks "hell zone," and Justin Gaethje wants a seat. Here is the honest read, including why we will not hand you a percentage.
Read →Baku's done and the model graded its misses; McGregor-Holloway fight week is here; and a referee is still the story. The day's threads and where our numbers stand.
Read →The UFC sold Freedom 250 as a viewership event. A week on, the figures depend on which figure you pick, and the one White says matters most is not out yet.
Read →The Predator says a Rico Verhoeven crossover is "what I have in mind for right now." The UFC superfight everyone wants is still a fan poll with no contract behind it.
Read →The former middleweight champ opens around -340 over a welterweight legend moving up. The odds gap is the story; our model hasn't priced this one.
Read →Bisping and Pimblett both point to one number on Conor McGregor's side. We'd point to the five years no one can model.
Read →Retire Gaethje, push McGregor into the "hell zone," defend Zahabi's plan. Different fighters, one throughline from a man who walked away on top.
Read →Justin Gaethje turned down Arman Tsarukyan's $5.7 million-funded gift and floated a different ask: an ownership stake in the UFC. One is a feud. The other is a fighter-pay argument the sport keeps circling back to.
Read →Kape erased a 2017 loss to Kyoji Horiguchi with a third-round knockout at UFC Vegas 119, then asked for Joshua Van. Our model went 9 of 12 on the night, but its one LOCK lost.
Read →Vinicius Oliveira built a strong run before a recent stumble; Andre Fili is the 26-fight veteran who tests everyone.
Read →A reported $100 million ask kept Trevor Wittman's gloves out of the cage, while Dana White called Tom Aspinall's deal with a boxing promoter "insane." Both fights run on the same question: who captures the value in a UFC bout.
Read →Manel Kape is finishing everyone in front of him. Kyoji Horiguchi is two wins into a return nine years in the making.
Read →A prospect-heavy card with a flyweight headliner that pits the division's hottest finisher against its best return story.
Read →After six months of leaks and a cryptic Instagram jab, the UFC made it official Saturday night: Dricus du Plessis returns against a former welterweight king moving up to chase a second belt.
Read →Navajo Stirling is 4-0 in the UFC; Ion Cutelaba has seen everything the light heavyweight division can throw at him.
Read →Our data sweep for the sport's biggest return arcs surfaced one gap that dwarfs the rest: 3,290 days between Octagon appearances.
Read →Melsik Baghdasaryan looks to recover from a brutal knockout; his opponent arrives with no UFC tape.
Read →Both men need a result — and a common opponent hangs over the matchup.
Read →Two top-five light heavyweights, both off losses to elite competition, fight to lead a scrambled division. FightIQ has no model number for this card yet, so this runs on verified records and market context.
Read →Makhachev put a $20M figure on the superfight that collapsed, while pouring his own money into padel and warning the UFC's pay could cost it Usman Nurmagomedov.
Read →Kyoji Horiguchi submitted Kape in 2017 on his way to winning a Grand Prix in one night. Kape turned down a wait for the belt to run it back at the APEX.
Read →The new lightweight champion says he doesn't want a Topuria rematch. A revenge fight, a megastar and a snubbed No. 1 contender are all circling.
Read →Three feeder-circuit cards, one weekend, two on UFC Fight Pass and one on Vice TV: Andreeas Binder's Manchester statement, an ex-Falcon's 11-second title KO, and a four-second finish that beat Masvidal's UFC record.
Read →Our headline pick was stopped — and the honest read is the model was never as sure as its HIGH-confidence label looked. We also called the Gane upset the market didn't.
Read →The lightweight title, outdoors, with GOAT stakes — and a near-5-to-1 underdog selling belief.
Read →Rashad Evans def. Dan Henderson — Split Decision (3 rounds), Light Heavyweight The numbers twist: He landed fewer significant strikes — and still won.…
Read →Mauricio Ruffy is a massive favorite over Michael Chandler — the numbers see a changing of the guard.
Read →A heavyweight-debut interim title shot at becoming the first-ever three-division champion, in a fight the numbers call a coin flip.
Read →Sean O'Malley is a heavy betting favorite over Aiemann Zahabi — but the numbers see a much tighter fight.
Read →The wrestling phenom is the favorite, but Kyle Daukaus is dangerous and on a roll.
Read →Diego Lopes is the slight favorite over red-hot Steve Garcia — the model calls it a toss-up.
Read →Josh Hokit is the favorite over knockout legend Derrick Lewis — and the resume backs it.
Read →Two titles, a three-division bid, and a card where the model breaks from the market in three spots.
Read →The most-hyped card in UFC history is also its most debated — an outdoor title night tied to America 250.
Read →A lightweight title unification on the White House lawn — with one man chasing GOAT status and the other a near-5-to-1 underdog selling belief.
Read →A heavyweight debut for the interim title — and a shot at becoming the UFC's first-ever three-division champion.
Read →Two lightweights on win streaks — one a polished veteran finding his finish, the other an Australian on a four-fight UFC win streak.
Read →A five-round decision over Belal Muhammad caps a finish-heavy night — and confirms the read that the welterweight division has moved on.
Read →Bruno Silva and Edgar Chairez meet in a fight the model can't separate.
Read →Belal Muhammad headlines as the betting underdog against surging Gabriel Bonfim — a sign of how fast the welterweight ground has shifted under him.
Read →The polarizing Bryce Mitchell is a near-even favorite against unbeaten prospect Santiago Luna — but FightIQ's model quietly sides with the youngster.
Read →A proven bantamweight against a newcomer — with the model less sure than the line.
Read →Alessandro Costa is a heavy favorite over the durable-but-fading Matt Schnell.
Read →Jeisla Chaves is a clear favorite over Yuneisy Duben in a fight with thin UFC tape.
Read →Chelsea Chandler and Priscila Cachoeira both arrive needing a result.
Read →Ketlen Souza meets Ariane Carnelossi with the model and market aligned.
Read →Joanderson Brito and Jordan Leavitt is a near-even clash of opposite styles.
Read →Iwo Baraniewski is a massive betting favorite over Junior Tafa — but FightIQ's model rates it a toss-up.
Read →Brendan Allen and Edmen Shahbazyan are both surging — something has to give in the co-main.
Read →Part of Macau's wave of regional debutants — the kind of fight where the honest answer is 'we'll find out.'
Read →The co-main pairs a Chinese knockout artist on home soil with an American banger — and both are coming off knockout losses.
Read →A second-round submission caps a homecoming statement, while the crowd watched two of its favorites get upset on the way there.
Read →A 14-day turnaround for Gurule against a Japanese prospect whose only loss came to a future champion.
Read →For the first time since 2018, the 'Kung Fu Kid' fights in China — and a walk-down at the weigh-in face-off set the tone.
Read →Both Alex Perez and Sumudaerji have faced Charles Johnson — with opposite results that hint at the gap between them.
Read →Sergei Pavlovich has won his last two by decision — a long way from his six-straight-knockout peak. Tallison Teixeira thinks that drift is his opening.
Read →A late-notice welterweight scrap between an Australian mainstay and a finisher who hasn't fought in over a year.
Read →Loma Lookboonmee's clinch and control meet Jaqueline Amorim's first-rate submission hunting.
Read →Two debutants with thin résumés — one a Korean banger, one a Brazilian submission specialist — in a genuine coin-flip.
Read →Former ONE queenpin Xiong Jingnan arrives in a strawweight division 'desperate for new contenders' — and a veteran gatekeeper stands in the way.
Read →At 38 and 1-3 in his last four, the former two-time champion arrives in Macau talking about fighting until 43 — and about where he ranks among the flyweight greats.
Read →A former Rizin champion winless in the UFC drops to bantamweight against a fighter who hasn't won since 2024.
Read →A nine-fight Octagon veteran coming off a first-round knockout meets a bantamweight who's perfect but barely tested.
Read →Allen's jab, wrestling, and nine-plus minutes of control time shut out a confident Melquizael Costa at UFC Vegas 117
Read →Carlos Prates stopped Jack Della Maddalena in the third round of a fight our model called a coin flip. Here is how every pick graded out, headliner included.
Read →A 6-of-13 night at UFC Fight Night 272, with two first-round finishes landing as called and the headliner pick missing outright.
Read →Sean Strickland's third-round knockout at UFC Fight Night on Feb. 21 sank our HIGH-confidence pick on Anthony Hernandez, and the card finished 9 for 14. Here's the grade, misses included.
Read →Andre Lima is 4-1 over five UFC fights, a run built on a disqualification win over Igor Severino, a split decision over Mitch Raposo, a unanimous decision over Felipe dos Santos and a third-round…
Read →Aoriqileng is 4-5 through 10 UFC fights, a run that swings between a first-round KO of Cody Gibson last October and a second-round KO loss to Cody Haddon in May.
Read →Both men make their UFC debuts.
Read →Francesco Nuzzi has no prior UFC fight in our data, so there is nothing on his octagon record to read.
Read →Sean Woodson is 7-2-1 in the UFC and won four in a row, including a first-round KO of Fernando Padilla, before Dan Ige stopped him in the third in April 2025.
Read →Julia Polastri is 2-3 through five UFC fights and her results have alternated the whole way, a split-decision win over Cory McKenna, a third-round KO/TKO of Karolina Kowalkiewicz last October, and…
Read →Kevin Borjas is 2-4 through six UFC flyweight bouts, and his last five split cleanly by method: both wins came by unanimous decision, both stoppage losses came by knockout in the second round.
Read →Levi Rodrigues Jr.
Read →Song Yadong is 12-4-1 across 17 UFC appearances and has alternated results over his last five, beating Chris Gutierrez, losing to Petr Yan, beating Henry Cejudo, losing to Sean O'Malley and then…
Read →Anthony Hernandez is 9-3 through 12 UFC middleweight bouts and had won four straight, including submissions of Roman Kopylov and Roman Dolidze, before Sean Strickland stopped him in February 2026.
Read →Carli Judice is 3-1 in four UFC flyweight bouts and has won three straight since a split-decision loss to Gabriella Fernandes, knocking out Yuneisy Duben in a round and Nicolle Caliari in the third…
Read →Chris Padilla is unbeaten in the UFC at 4-0-1, having finished James Llontop, Rongzhu and Ismael Bonfim and last appeared in a majority draw with Marquel Mederos in April 2026, who also fights on…
Read →Elise Reed is the strawweight with nine UFC fights and a 4-5 record, and she has lost three of her last five, most recently a second-round knockout by Denise Gomes in May 2025.
Read →Gauge Young is 2-1 in three UFC lightweight bouts, with a decision loss to Evan Elder and wins over Maheshate and Thiago Moises, the last of those on a split decision in April 2026.
Read →Jackson McVey is 1-2 in three UFC middleweight bouts, with both losses by submission and his win a first-round submission of Sedriques Dumas in April 2026.
Read →Jamall Emmers is 5-4 in nine UFC featherweight bouts and has won two straight, a first-round knockout of Gabriel Miranda and a decision over Hyder Amil in November 2025.
Read →Kennedy Nzechukwu is 8-6-1 through 15 UFC bouts and has spent the past two years at heavyweight after starting his run at light heavyweight.
Read →Marcio Barbosa has one UFC fight, a first-round KO/TKO of Dennis Buzukja in April 2026 at featherweight.
Read →Marquel Mederos is unbeaten in the UFC at 3-0-1, and all three wins came by decision, over Landon Quinones, Austin Hubbard and Mark Choinski.
Read →Reinier de Ridder is 4-2 in six UFC middleweight bouts, with wins over Kevin Holland, Bo Nickal and Robert Whittaker and back-to-back losses to Brendan Allen and Caio Borralho.
Read →Serghei Spivac is 9-6 in 15 UFC heavyweight fights and has lost three of his last five, to Ciryl Gane, Jailton Almeida and Waldo Cortes Acosta, with a decision over Ante Delija in February 2026 the…
Read →Chidi Njokuani is 5-5 across 10 UFC fights and has lost his last two, a first-round submission to Jake Matthews and a decision to Carlos Leal.
Read →Donte Johnson is 2-0 in the UFC, submitting Sedriques Dumas in the second round and taking a split decision from Cody Brundage.
Read →Dustin Stoltzfus is 3-7 across 10 UFC fights and has lost his last two, decisions to Nursulton Ruziboev and Kelvin Gastelum.
Read →Edson Barboza is 18-14 across 32 UFC fights, by far the longer tenure here, and has lost three in a row, most recently a first-round stoppage by Jalin Turner.
Read →Gillian Robertson is 14-6 over 20 UFC appearances and has won her last five, stopping Polyana Viana and Marina Rodriguez inside two rounds and outpointing Michelle Waterson-Gomez, Luana Pinheiro and…
Read →Ian Machado Garry is 10-1 across 11 UFC appearances, and all five of his most recent fights went to the judges, including wins over Michael Page, Carlos Prates and Belal Muhammad and a five-round…
Read →Jalin Turner is 8-6 across 14 UFC fights, alternating heavily, with first-round knockouts of King Green and of Edson Barboza against stoppage losses to Renato Moicano and Ignacio Bahamondes.
Read →Jeremiah Wells is 5-2 across seven UFC fights spread over several years, with a knockout of Court McGee in 2022 and, most recently, a decision over Themba Gorimbo.
Read →Lucas Fernando makes his UFC debut.
Read →Neil Magny is 24-13 across 37 UFC fights, the longest tenure on this card, and has mixed results lately, stopping Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos and submitting Jake Matthews before a first-round…
Read →Tresean Gore is 3-4 across seven UFC fights, with all three of his wins coming by submission, the most recent a third-round finish of Azamat Bekoev.
Read →Alexia Thainara is 3-0 in the UFC, having submitted Molly McCann in the first round and then outpointed Loma Lookboonmee and Bruna Brasil across three rounds each.
Read →Billy Quarantillo is 6-5 in the UFC and has lost two of his last three, submitted by Youssef Zalal and knocked out by Cub Swanson in December 2024.
Read →Billy Ray Goff is 1-2 in the UFC, with a first-round knockout of Yusaku Kinoshita and losses since to Trey Waters on the cards and Ramiz Brahimaj by first-round submission.
Read →Bruno Lopes is 1-2 in the UFC and has been stopped in both of his last two, knocked out by Dustin Jacoby in the first round and by Navajo Stirling in the second.
Read →Neither Carol Foro nor Gigi Canuto has a UFC record in our data.
Read →Darren Elkins brings 30 UFC fights and a 19-11 record, including a submission of TJ Brown and a decision over Daniel Pineda, with a first-round knockout loss to Julian Erosa in April 2025 as the most…
Read →Gianni Vazquez is 0-1 in the UFC after a unanimous decision loss to Javid Basharat in February.
Read →Guilherme Pat and Steven Asplund arrive at the same place from the same direction.
Read →Jose Montanha makes his UFC debut.
Read →Juliana Miller is 2-3 in the UFC, with a knockout of Brogan Walker and a decision over Ivana Petrovic on one side and a unanimous decision loss to Carli Judice in February on the other.
Read →Manoel Sousa is 1-0 in the UFC after stopping Bolaji Oki in the third round in March.
Read →Mateusz Gamrot is 9-4 in the UFC, with a win over Rafael Dos Anjos, a submission of Esteban Ribovics in April and losses to Dan Hooker and Charles Oliveira in between.
Read →Aleksandar Rakic is 6-5 in the UFC and has lost four straight, to Jan Blachowicz, Jiri Prochazka, Magomed Ankalaev and Azamat Murzakanov, the last of those a first-round stoppage in October 2025.
Read →Alexander Poppeck and Jovan Leka both make their UFC debuts.
Read →Bogdan Grad is 1-2 in the UFC, a second-round TKO of Lucas Alexander in February 2025 followed by a decision loss to Muhammad Naimov and a second-round stoppage loss to Luke Riley.
Read →Borislav Nikolic makes his UFC debut.
Read →Daniel Rodriguez is 10-4 across 14 UFC fights and comes in on a three-fight win streak, a split decision over Alex Morono, a third-round TKO of Santiago Ponzinibbio and a unanimous decision over…
Read →Dusko Todorovic is 4-6 over 10 UFC fights, stopped in round one twice in his last five and coming off a first-round submission of Jose Daniel Medina in September 2025.
Read →Gilbert Urbina is 1-3 in the UFC, with all four of his fights ending inside the distance and the most recent a first-round KO loss to Uros Medic in August 2025.
Read →Hailey Cowan is 0-3 in the UFC, a decision loss to Jamey-Lyn Horth in 2023, a submission loss to Nora Cornolle and a second-round KO loss to Alice Pereira in April 2026.
Read →Jan Blachowicz is 12-8-2 over 22 UFC fights, and the last win on his record came against Aleksandar Rakic in May 2022.
Read →Kyle Prepolec is 0-4 in the UFC, decisions against him from Nordine Taleb and Austin Hubbard in 2019 and stoppage losses to Benoit Saint Denis and Drew Dober in 2025.
Read →Ludovit Klein is 8-3-1 across 12 UFC fights and 4-1 in his last five, the loss to Mateusz Gamrot and the most recent result a majority decision over Mateusz Rebecki.
Read →Marina Spasic makes her UFC debut.
Read →Michael Oliveira makes his UFC debut.
Read →Milos Janicic and Noah Gugnon both make their UFC debuts.
Read →Abdul Hussein makes his UFC debut.
Read →Abubakar Vagaev makes his UFC debut.
Read →Axel Sola is 1-1 in the UFC, a third-round KO/TKO of Rhys McKee followed by a unanimous decision loss to Mason Jones in March.
Read →Bogdan Guskov is 4-1-1 through six UFC appearances and has finished all four men he has beaten, three by KO/TKO and one by submission, though his December meeting with Jan Blachowicz produced no…
Read →Brendson Ribeiro is 2-5 through seven UFC fights and has lost his last three, all in the first round, by KO/TKO to Azamat Murzakanov, by KO/TKO to Oumar Sy and by submission to Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev…
Read →Neither man has a UFC record in our data.
Read →Dustin Jacoby is 10-6-1 across 17 UFC fights and is on three straight KO/TKO wins, over Vitor Petrino and Bruno Lopes and then Julius Walker in February.
Read →Mike Davis is 5-2 through seven UFC lightweight fights, with a submission win over Natan Levy, a KO/TKO of Mitch Ramirez in July 2025 and decision wins over Mason Jones and Viacheslav Borshchev…
Read →Ramazan Temirov is 2-0 in the UFC with a first-round KO/TKO of CJ Vergara and a unanimous decision over Charles Johnson, a sample of two fights and nothing more.
Read →Rizvan Kuniev is 1-1 in two UFC heavyweight fights, dropping a split decision to Curtis Blaydes and then taking a unanimous decision from Jailton Almeida in February.
Read →Sam Patterson is 4-2 through six UFC fights and finished four straight before March, two by submission and two by KO/TKO, every one of them in the first round, ahead of a unanimous decision loss to…
Read →Thomas Petersen is 3-3 through six UFC heavyweight fights, with all three wins on the scorecards, a decision loss to Jamal Pogues and KO/TKO losses to Shamil Gaziev in round one and Vitor Petrino in…
Read →Alden Coria is 2-0 in the UFC, stopping Alessandro Costa in the third round last September and outpointing Luis Gurule in February.
Read →Anna Melisano makes her UFC debut.
Read →Austin Bashi is 1-1 in the UFC, having lost a decision to Christian Rodriguez in January 2025 and then submitted John Yannis in the first round that August.
Read →Chase Hooper is 8-5 in 13 UFC fights and built his best stretch on the mat, submitting Viacheslav Borshchev and Clay Guida before outpointing Jim Miller.
Read →Dricus Du Plessis is 9-1 across 10 UFC fights, with a knockout of Robert Whittaker, a submission of Israel Adesanya, two wins over Sean Strickland and a decision loss to Khamzat Chimaev last August.
Read →Ezra Elliott (listed on the card as Ezra Elliot) and Damien Anderson both make their UFC debuts.
Read →Jared Cannonier is 11-9 through 20 UFC fights and 2-3 over his last five, with losses to Nassourdine Imavov, Caio Borralho and Michael Page against a fourth-round stoppage of Gregory Rodrigues.
Read →Jean-Paul Lebosnoyani is 1-0 in the UFC, a split-decision win over Phil Rowe in February.
Read →Levi Rodrigues Jr makes his UFC debut.
Read →RJ Harris makes his UFC debut.
Read →Song Yadong has 17 UFC fights behind him and a 12-4-1 record in them, a bantamweight who has beaten Chris Gutierrez and Henry Cejudo, lost to Petr Yan and Sean O'Malley, and submitted Deiveson…
Read →Tabatha Ricci is 7-4 through 11 UFC fights, with wins over Tecia Pennington and Angela Hill, a second-round stoppage of Amanda Ribas last July, and decision losses to Yan Xiaonan and Virna Jandiroba.
Read →Tommy Mcmillen and Alberto Montes each arrive 1-0 in the UFC.
Read →Alessandro Costa is 4-3 in the UFC and has won his last two by knockout, stopping Stewart Nicoll in the second round in April and Matt Schnell in the first in June, barely a month before this card.
Read →Benoit Saint Denis is 9-3 in 12 UFC fights and has finished each of his last four, two submissions and two knockouts, against Kyle Prepolec, Mauricio Ruffy, Beneil Dariush and Dan Hooker.
Read →Terrance McKinney is 8-5 in the UFC across 13 fights, and not one of his last five got out of the first round: three wins inside the distance, two losses the same way.
Read →Brandon Royval is 7-5 in 12 UFC fights, with split-decision wins over Brandon Moreno and Tatsuro Taira and a five-round decision loss to Alexandre Pantoja in a flyweight title fight in December 2023.
Read →Cody Garbrandt is 10-7 across 17 UFC fights and has won three of his last five, most recently a unanimous decision against Xiao Long in March.
Read →Conor McGregor is 10-4 in 14 UFC fights and has not competed in the octagon since July 10, 2021, when a doctor's stoppage ended his first round against Dustin Poirier.
Read →Cory Sandhagen is 11-5 in 16 UFC fights, with a five-round split decision over Marlon Vera, a second-round stoppage of Deiveson Figueiredo after Figueiredo hurt his knee, and losses in his last…
Read →Damian Pinas has one UFC fight on his record, a first-round knockout of Wes Schultz in February.
Read →Farid Basharat is 6-0 in the UFC, a unanimous decision over Da'Mon Blackshear in his debut, a first-round submission of Kleydson Rodrigues in his second fight and the four since on the scorecards…
Read →Gable Steveson makes his UFC debut.
Read →Luke Riley is 2-0 in the UFC, a second-round knockout of Bogdan Grad in November and a unanimous decision against Michael Aswell Jr.
Read →Nikita Krylov is 12-9 across 21 UFC fights, and his recent light heavyweight work swings hard both ways: two first-round knockout losses inside his last five, then a third-round knockout win against…
Read →Ryan Gandra has one UFC fight, a first-round knockout of Jose Daniel Medina in February.
Read →Song Yadong arrives 12-4-1 across 17 UFC appearances, with a recent stretch that alternates results: decision wins over Chris Gutierrez and Henry Cejudo, decision losses to Petr Yan and Sean…
Read →Tracy Cortez is 6-2 in the UFC with a record built almost entirely on the scorecards, six decision wins and a decision loss to Rose Namajunas over five rounds.
Read →Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev is 2-0 in the UFC and neither fight left the first round, both ending by submission.
Read →Abus Magomedov is 4-3 in the UFC across seven fights, with three wins since May 2024 and a second-round submission loss to Joe Pyfer last October as his most recent outing.
Read →Andrey Pulyaev is 1-2 in the UFC, both losses by unanimous decision and his win a second-round knockout of Nick Klein.
Read →Asu Almabayev is 6-1 through seven UFC fights, with three unanimous decisions and a third-round submission of Alex Perez among his last five, and one loss, a third-round knockout by Manel Kape.
Read →Bekzat Almakhan is 1-2 in the UFC, with a first-round knockout of Brad Katona sandwiched between decision losses to Umar Nurmagomedov and Aleksandre Topuria, and he has not fought since November.
Read →Ikram Aliskerov is 4-1 in the UFC and four of those five fights ended in the first round, three of them knockouts by him and one by Robert Whittaker.
Read →Daniil Donchenko is 2-0 in the UFC, with a first-round KO in the Ultimate Fighter 33 welterweight tournament final and a decision win over Alex Morono in February.
Read →Eric Nolan has one UFC fight on his record, a second-round submission loss to Baisangur Susurkaev last August at middleweight.
Read →Javier Reyes has one UFC fight, a first-round knockout of Douglas Silva de Andrade in February.
Read →Both Jefferson Nascimento and Tahir Abdullayev make their UFC debuts, so there is no octagon form on either man to weigh.
Read →Manuel Torres is 5-1 in the UFC, and every one of his last five appearances ended in the first round, four of them in his favor.
Read →Matheus Camilo has two UFC fights, a second-round submission loss to Gabe Green and a unanimous decision over Viacheslav Borshchev in November.
Read →Michel Pereira has 15 UFC fights and a 10-5 record, but he is 2-3 across his last five, with knockout losses to Anthony Hernandez in the fifth round and Kyle Daukaus in the first.
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