Cory Sandhagen Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
◆	Mario BautistaUpcoming Bantamweight	—	—	—	—	UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2	Jul 11, 2026
L	CMerab DvalishviliTitle Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC 320: Ankalaev vs. Pereira 2	Oct 4, 2025
W	#5Deiveson Figueiredo Bantamweight	KO/TKO	to Knee Injury	R2	4:08	UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo	May 3, 2025
L	#10Umar Nurmagomedov Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov	Aug 3, 2024
W	Rob Font Catch Weight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Font	Aug 5, 2023
W	#4Marlon Vera Bantamweight	Decision	Split	R5	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Sandhagen	Mar 25, 2023
W	#10Song Yadong Bantamweight	KO/TKO	Cut	R4	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Song	Sep 17, 2022
L	#1Petr YanTitle Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira	Oct 30, 2021
L	CTJ Dillashaw Bantamweight	Decision	Split	R5	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Dillashaw	Jul 24, 2021
W	#4Frankie Edgar Bantamweight	KO/TKO	Flying Knee Head	R1	0:28	UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov	Feb 6, 2021
W	#1Marlon Moraes Bantamweight	KO/TKO	Kick to Head At Distance Wheel Kick	R2	1:03	UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. Sandhagen	Oct 10, 2020
L	#2Aljamain Sterling Bantamweight	Submission	Rear Naked Choke	R1	1:28	UFC 250: Nunes vs. Spencer	Jun 6, 2020
W	#3Raphael Assuncao Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2	Aug 17, 2019
W	#8John Lineker Bantamweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Hermansson	Apr 27, 2019
W	Mario Bautista Bantamweight	Submission	Armbar On Ground	R1	3:31	UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Dillashaw	Jan 19, 2019
W	#13Iuri Alcantara Bantamweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head On Ground	R2	1:01	UFC Fight Night: Gaethje vs. Vick	Aug 25, 2018
W	Austin Arnett Featherweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Body At Distance	R2	3:48	UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Brunson 2	Jan 27, 2018

Outside the UFC

7-1across 8 bouts · 6 promotions · wins by 2 KO · 2 sub · 3 decLFA · RFA 43 · SCL 50 · Paramount MMA · RFA 34 +1

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Jose Aguayo5-3	KO/TKO	Knee and Punches	R1	1:07	LFA	Jan 19, 2018
W	Luiz Antonio Lobo Gavinho10-5	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	3:00	LFA	Oct 13, 2017
L	Jamall Emmers22-8	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	LFA	Feb 24, 2017
W	Clay Wimer8-4	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	RFA 43	Sep 9, 2016
W	Josh Huber24-13	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	SCL 50	Jul 16, 2016
W	Dalton Goddard3-5	Submission	Triangle Choke	R1	3:38	Paramount MMA	Apr 15, 2016
W	Andrew Tenneson8-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	RFA 34	Jan 15, 2016
W	Bruce Sessman0-5	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	1:16	FTW	May 30, 2015

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.

Amateur

3-1across 4 amateur bouts · 2 promotionsFTW · ROF

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Jorge Dominguez1-2	Decision	Unanimous	R3	3:00	FTW	Mar 6, 2015
L	Brandon Heredia0-3	Decision	Split	R3	3:00	FTW	Apr 19, 2013
W	Seth Rodenbaugh0-1	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	0:15	ROF	Feb 9, 2013
W	Daymar Ortiz3-2	KO/TKO	Knee and Punches	R1	0:43	FTW	Sep 14, 2012

Amateur (pre-professional) bouts — shown for context only and excluded from the professional record and every UFC-scoped metric.

Method of victory & defeat

KO / TKO

8 wins, 0 losses

W8

L0

Submission

3 wins, 1 loss

W3

L1

Decision

7 wins, 5 losses

W7

L5

Finishes

UFC KOs

6

Above avg · 10%Bantamweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.25

Above avg · 0.24Bantamweight

UFC submissions

1

Below avg · 8%Bantamweight

Submission attempts / fight

0.25

Below avg · 0.37Bantamweight

KO history

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

Cory Sandhagen

PowerChin

Knockout rate

38%

6 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

4

0.54 per 100 head

Clean KO losses

0

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

1

0.20 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 finished by strikesin the UFC

Decision behavior

Judging

8 scorecards on file

Cory Sandhagen

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 8 of 13 rounds they disagreed on (62%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

2–1

Won – Lost

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

8–5

Won – Lost

62% went their way

Unanimous5 decisions · 63%

2W3L

Split3 decisions · 38%

2W1L

Majority

None

10-8 rounds

2 rounds total

0

Won

2

Lost

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallB59th

45%1,144 / 2,542

Striking accuracy

56%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min+1.39 differential

Landed4.86

Absorbed3.47

56%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

+1%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head65%86th742
Body16%61st178
Leg20%84th224

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

Sig. strikes by position

83%Standing

Standing83%949
Clinch3%34
Ground14%161

Striking zones

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

UFC only

Cory Sandhagen

Landed per 15

Head

A+

87th

47.3

87th

Body

B

62nd

11.3

62nd

Leg

A+

86th

14.3

86th

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

54th

31.3

54th

Body

C

45th

10.9

45th

Leg

D

39th

9.9

39th

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	47.3	742	2,051	36%
Body	11.3	178	240	74%
Leg	14.3	224	251	89%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	31.3	491	1,457	34%
Body	10.9	171	246	70%
Leg	9.9	155	185	84%

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

Cory Sandhagen

35%

Takedown accuracy

56%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min+0.8 min net

On top3.0

On bottom2.2

Offense

Takedowns

C

51st

1.1

51st

TD accuracy

C

48th

35%

48th

Sub attempts

C

51st

0.3

51st

Control

C

57th

3.0 min

57th

Defense

TD defense

D

41st

56%

41st

Controlled

2.2 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	18 / 52
Submission attempts	4
Control time	47:25

Defense

TDs defended	53 / 94
Control absorbed	35:13

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (235min 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

Cory Sandhagen

16 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 235 min

101%

R3 pace · 9 bouts

Sandhagen fades (-7% per round through round 5). Within fights that reached round 3, Sandhagen sustains 101% of round-1 output by round 3 (9 bouts).

Sandhagen ▼ FADESOutput / min

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

Sandhagenlanded / min

Takedown attempts

Sandhagenattempts / min

Control time

Sandhagen% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	7.0	5.5	2.6	0.21	22%	16
R2	6.5	4.9	3.4	0.18	27%	13
R3	6.2	5.1	4.4	0.22	11%	9
R4	5.7	4.1	3.7	0.29	19%	7
R5	5.2	3.7	4.0	0.23	18%	6

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

Cory Sandhagen

16 resolved UFC bouts · 13 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

82/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

A+

98th

81%

98th

Win quality

A+

93rd

63%

93rd

Opponent quality distribution

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

4

8

2

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
UnprovenFewer than 3 fights, or sub-.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Champion	4	0-4	0%
Top-5	8	7-1	88%
Top-15	2	2-0	100%
Cross-div ranked	1	1-0	100%
Unproven	1	1-0	100%

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	Merab DvalishviliCHAMP	Champion	100	Oct 4, 2025
W	Deiveson Figueiredo#5	Top-5	83	May 3, 2025
L	Umar Nurmagomedov#10	Top-5	82	Aug 3, 2024
W	Rob Font	Cross-div ranked	45	Aug 5, 2023
W	Marlon Vera#4	Top-5	81	Mar 25, 2023
W	Song Yadong#10	Top-5	75	Sep 17, 2022
L	Petr Yan#1	Champion	97	Oct 30, 2021
L	TJ DillashawCHAMP	Champion	100	Jul 24, 2021
W	Frankie Edgar#4	Top-5	84	Feb 6, 2021
W	Marlon Moraes#1	Top-5	90	Oct 10, 2020
L	Aljamain Sterling#2	Champion	96	Jun 6, 2020
W	Raphael Assuncao#3	Top-5	86	Aug 17, 2019
W	John Lineker#8	Top-5	82	Apr 27, 2019
W	Mario Bautista	Top-15	51	Jan 19, 2019
W	Iuri Alcantara#13	Top-15	70	Aug 25, 2018
W	Austin Arnett	Unproven	8	Jan 27, 2018

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

16 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

1-1

2 bouts

Typical camp

100–180 days

5-2

7 bouts

Long layoff

> 180 days

4-2

6 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

3-1

4 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

7-4

11 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

0-2

2 bouts

As champion

defending the belt

—

As challenger

fighting for the belt

0-2

2 bouts

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

9 months

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Cory Sandhagen

Within a year

9 monthssince last bout

vs Merab Dvalishvili · Oct 4, 2025

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 10-1As underdog 1-4

89.2

DK avg

96.6

Median

125.9

Ceiling

45.8

Floor

63%

Boom

6%

Bust

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