Brad Tavares Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	Eryk Anders Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Vallejos	Mar 14, 2026
L	Robert Bryczek Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head On Ground	R3	1:43	UFC Fight Night: Imavov vs. Borralho	Sep 6, 2025
W	Gerald Meerschaert Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Murphy	Apr 5, 2025
L	JunYong Park Middleweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Taira	Oct 12, 2024
L	Gregory Rodrigues Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head At Distance	R3	0:55	UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Pyfer	Feb 10, 2024
W	#14Chris Weidman Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley	Aug 19, 2023
L	Bruno Silva Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head At Distance	R1	3:35	UFC Fight Night: Pavlovich vs. Blaydes	Apr 22, 2023
L	Dricus Du Plessis Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier	Jul 2, 2022
W	#13Omari Akhmedov Middleweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3	Jul 10, 2021
W	#15Antonio Carlos Junior Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor	Jan 23, 2021
L	#13Edmen Shahbazyan Middleweight	KO/TKO	Kick to Head At Distance	R1	2:27	UFC 244: Masvidal vs. Diaz	Nov 2, 2019
L	Israel Adesanya Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	The Ultimate Fighter: Undefeated Finale	Jul 6, 2018
W	#13Krzysztof Jotko Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head In Clinch	R3	2:16	UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Gaethje	Apr 14, 2018
W	#13Thales Leites Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee	Oct 7, 2017
W	#15Elias Theodorou Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	The Ultimate Fighter: Redemption Finale	Jul 7, 2017
W	Caio Magalhaes Middleweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem	Sep 10, 2016
L	#14Robert Whittaker Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head In Clinch	R1	0:44	UFC Fight Night: Miocic vs. Hunt	May 9, 2015
W	Nate Marquardt Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 182: Jones vs. Cormier	Jan 3, 2015
L	#14Tim Boetsch Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head At Distance	R2	3:18	UFC Fight Night: Bader vs. Saint Preux	Aug 16, 2014
L	#14Yoel Romero Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC on FOX: Werdum vs. Browne	Apr 19, 2014
W	Lorenz Larkin Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Philippou	Jan 15, 2014
W	Robert McDaniel Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Condit vs. Kampmann 2	Aug 28, 2013
W	Riki Fukuda Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC on FUEL TV: Silva vs. Stann	Mar 2, 2013
W	Tom Watson Middleweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC on FUEL TV: Struve vs. Miocic	Sep 29, 2012
W	Dongi Yang Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC on FUEL TV: Korean Zombie vs. Poirier	May 15, 2012
L	Aaron Simpson Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 132: Cruz vs. Faber	Jul 2, 2011
W	Phil Baroni Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head In Clinch	R1	4:20	UFC 125: Resolution	Jan 1, 2011
W	Seth Baczynski Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	The Ultimate Fighter: Team Liddell vs. Team Ortiz Finale	Jun 19, 2010

Outside the UFC

5-0across 5 bouts · 4 promotions · wins by 3 KO · 2 subX-1 · Icon Sport · NVP · MMAC

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Jonathan Joao2-4	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	0:00	X-1	Mar 7, 2009
W	Joshua Ferreira0-4	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R2	2:28	X-1	Sep 27, 2008
W	Devin Kauwe0-1	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	1:52	Icon Sport	Aug 2, 2008
W	Jon Ferrell0-4	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	—	NVP	Apr 18, 2008
W	Thomas Sedano2-2-1	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	0:40	MMAC	Jun 29, 2007

Non-UFC bouts (regional/other promotions) and Dana White’s Contender Series — shown for context only, excluded from Schedule Score, striking/grappling rates, and every UFC-scoped metric.

Method of victory & defeat

KO / TKO

5 wins, 6 losses

W5

L6

Submission

2 wins, 0 losses

W2

L0

Decision

14 wins, 6 losses

W14

L6

Finishes

UFC KOs

2

Below avg · 15%Middleweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.18

Below avg · 0.24Middleweight

UFC submissions

0

Below avg · 8%Middleweight

Submission attempts / fight

0.00

Below avg · 0.39Middleweight

KO history

Knockout power and chin durability (UFC; clean KOs only).

Brad Tavares

PowerChin

Knockout rate

7%

2 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

5

0.68 per 100 head

Clean KO losses

6

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

8

1.04 per 100 head

Chin gauges use a league scale: green = clean record, red = bottom ~10% of UFC fighters (4+ KO losses · 6+ knockdowns absorbed).

Never submittedin the UFC

Decision behavior

Judging

13 scorecards on file

Brad Tavares

Scorecard luck

Cards have leaned their way

Won 2 of 3 coin-flip decisions — the kind of close calls that have tended to fall their way. Judges have given them 2 of 6 rounds they disagreed on (33%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

2–1

Won – Lost

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

2–4

Won – Lost

33% went their way

Unanimous10 decisions · 77%

7W3L

Split3 decisions · 23%

2W1L

Majority

None

10-8 rounds

2 rounds total

2

Won

0

Lost

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallC48th

43%1,243 / 2,844

Striking accuracy

54%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min+0.09 differential

Landed3.41

Absorbed3.32

67%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

-3%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head59%60th738
Body17%55th213
Leg23%81st292

Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share of strikes

Sig. strikes by position

84%Standing

Standing84%1,049
Clinch12%150
Ground4%44

Striking zones

Per-15-minute breakdown — where this fighter lands, and where they get hit.

UFC only

Brad Tavares

Landed per 15

Head

B

61st

30.4

61st

Body

C

53rd

8.8

53rd

Leg

A

83rd

12.0

83rd

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Absorbed per 15

Head

C

47th

31.7

47th

Body

C

58th

7.8

58th

Leg

F

24th

10.3

24th

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Career totals — landed / attempted

Landed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	30.4	738	2,171	34%
Body	8.8	213	327	65%
Leg	12.0	292	346	84%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	31.7	769	2,047	38%
Body	7.8	190	305	62%
Leg	10.3	250	330	76%

UFCStats career rates, per 15 minutes. Percentiles vs the division; absorbed is inverted so higher is better.

Grappling

Per-15-minute breakdown of takedowns, submissions, and ground control.

UFC only

Brad Tavares

27%

Takedown accuracy

80%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min-1.4 min net

On top1.9

On bottom3.3

Offense

Takedowns

D

39th

0.7

39th

TD accuracy

D

29th

27%

29th

Sub attempts

D

37th

0.0

37th

Control

D

35th

1.9 min

35th

Defense

TD defense

A

81st

80%

81st

Controlled

3.3 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	17 / 64
Submission attempts	0
Control time	46:38

Defense

TDs defended	114 / 142
Control absorbed	80:14

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (364min total). Value colors reflect the per-15 rate’s percentile against the current weight class baseline; raw totals without a division reference stay neutral.

Pace & fade

Round-by-round work rate, and whether they fade.

UFC only

Brad Tavares

28 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 364 min

128%

R3 pace · 23 bouts

Tavares builds (+10% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Tavares lifts to 128% of round-1 output by round 3 (23 bouts).

Tavares ▲ BUILDSOutput / min

Faded points are drawn from a single bout that reached that round, so they’re less reliable than the solid points averaged over many fights.

Rounds backed by fewer than 2 bouts are drawn smaller and dimmed with an n= count — a deep round seen in one or two fights is a thin sample, not a settled rate. Per-round bout counts are in the breakdown below.

Full per-round breakdown

What drives the pace · per round

The composite output line above blends these three inputs — splitting them out shows whether the work rate is built on striking volume, takedown pressure, or top control, and which input fades.

Sig. strikes landed

Tavareslanded / min

Takedown attempts

Tavaresattempts / min

Control time

Tavares% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	4.0	3.1	2.9	0.12	12%	28
R2	4.6	3.7	3.4	0.13	14%	24
R3	4.9	3.7	3.5	0.24	12%	23
R4	3.8	1.6	5.6	0.40	24%	1
R5	4.8	1.2	5.0	1.20	0%	1

Output / minis the headline work rate — significant strikes landed, plus 3 per takedown attempt, plus one per 15 seconds of control — so a takedown-and-grind round isn’t scored as idle the way bare striking volume would. The remaining columns are its components. Per-round rates use UFCStats per-round data (available for ~95% of bouts since 2008). Each round’s rates are averaged only over bouts that reached that round, so the bout count shrinks as rounds deepen. The final round of a finished fight is pro-rated by its actual length.

Schedule Score

Opponent quality, ranked across the UFC. Recent fights weighted heavier.

UFC only

Brad Tavares

28 resolved UFC bouts · 10 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

45/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

A

72nd

44%

72nd

Win quality

B

67th

45%

67th

Opponent quality distribution

Every UFC bout, grouped by who the opponent was at the time.

4

8

2

3

5

4

ChampionHeld the title in this weight class at the time
Top-5Ranked #1–#5 at the time
Top-15Ranked #6–#15 at the time
Cross-div rankedRanked #1–#15 in another division at the time
Contender-level8+ UFC wins entering the bout, ≥.55 win rate
Established5+ UFC wins entering the bout, ≥.500
Building3+ UFC fights, ≥.40 win rate
UnprovenFewer than 3 fights, or sub-.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Champion	4	1-3	25%
Top-5	1	0-1	0%
Top-15	8	5-3	63%
Cross-div ranked	2	1-1	50%
Contender-level	1	0-1	0%
Established	3	1-2	33%
Building	5	5-0	100%
Unproven	4	3-1	75%

Highest-quality opponents

Toughest opponents on the scheduleScore, scored at the time of the fight.

All bouts — opponent quality bout-by-bout

Res	Opponent	Tier	Score	Date
L	Eryk Anders	Established	30	Mar 14, 2026
L	Robert Bryczek	Unproven	8	Sep 6, 2025
W	Gerald Meerschaert	Building	22	Apr 5, 2025
L	JunYong Park	Contender-level	40	Oct 12, 2024
L	Gregory Rodrigues	Top-15	53	Feb 10, 2024
W	Chris Weidman#14	Champion	87	Aug 19, 2023
L	Bruno Silva	Cross-div ranked	45	Apr 22, 2023
L	Dricus Du Plessis	Champion	68	Jul 2, 2022
W	Omari Akhmedov#13	Top-15	66	Jul 10, 2021
W	Antonio Carlos Junior#15	Top-15	64	Jan 23, 2021
L	Edmen Shahbazyan#13	Top-15	68	Nov 2, 2019
L	Israel Adesanya	Champion	68	Jul 6, 2018
W	Krzysztof Jotko#13	Top-15	68	Apr 14, 2018
W	Thales Leites#13	Top-15	68	Oct 7, 2017
W	Elias Theodorou#15	Top-15	62	Jul 7, 2017
W	Caio Magalhaes	Building	18	Sep 10, 2016
L	Robert Whittaker#14	Champion	87	May 9, 2015
W	Nate Marquardt	Established	35	Jan 3, 2015
L	Tim Boetsch#14	Top-15	67	Aug 16, 2014
L	Yoel Romero#14	Top-5	80	Apr 19, 2014
W	Lorenz Larkin	Cross-div ranked	32	Jan 15, 2014
W	Robert McDaniel	Unproven	8	Aug 28, 2013
W	Riki Fukuda	Building	18	Mar 2, 2013
W	Tom Watson	Unproven	8	Sep 29, 2012
W	Dongi Yang	Building	15	May 15, 2012
L	Aaron Simpson	Established	26	Jul 2, 2011
W	Phil Baroni	Unproven	8	Jan 1, 2011
W	Seth Baczynski	Building	15	Jun 19, 2010

Per-bout quality scoring: champion = 100; same-division ranks 1–5 = 90 → 78 linear; ranks 6–15 = 75 → 60 linear; cross-division champion = 78; cross-division ranked = 45; title-fight challenger (no rank signal) = 50, bumped to 65 when opp had an elite career UFC record at the time. Unranked opponents are scored on UFC record-at-time (long-tenured vet 60, contender-level 45, established 30, building 18, unproven 8). P4P top-10 at time adds +5; top-3 adds +8 (capped at 100). The Schedule Score combines schedule strength (65%) and quality wins (35%), then is held toward a rookie baseline for fighters with limited UFC experience so a thin résumé reads honestly low.

Career cohorts

28 resolved UFC bouts

Performance broken down by situation — camp length, response to the previous result, title-fight presence, and rematches. Computed across every completed UFC bout.

Camp length

Days between fights

Short turnaround

< 100 days

1-2

3 bouts

Typical camp

100–180 days

8-4

12 bouts

Long layoff

> 180 days

6-6

12 bouts

UFC debut

first UFC bout

1-0

1 bout

Post-result bounce

Performance based on the previous UFC result

After a loss

next bout after a defeat

6-5

11 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

9-7

16 bouts

First UFC bout

no precedent

1-0

1 bout

Title fights

Performance with a belt on the line

All title fights

as challenger or champion

—

As champion

defending the belt

—

As challenger

fighting for the belt

—

Rematches

Performance when meeting an opponent again

All rematches

any second meeting

—

Revenge bouts

lost the first meeting

—

Encore bouts

won the first meeting

—

Activity & layoff

Last fight, activity, and divisional context.

Time since last UFC bout

3 months

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Brad Tavares

Active

3 monthssince last bout

vs Eryk Anders · Mar 14, 2026

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 13-5As underdog 3-7

47.8

DK avg

54.4

Median

79.4

Ceiling

15.8

Floor

14%

Boom

25%

Bust

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