Gilbert Burns Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	#15Mike Malott Welterweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head On Ground	R3	2:08	UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Malott	Apr 18, 2026
L	#12Michael Morales Welterweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head At Distance	R1	3:39	UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales	May 17, 2025
L	#8Sean Brady Welterweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Brady	Sep 7, 2024
L	#11Jack Della Maddalena Welterweight	KO/TKO	Elbows to Head On Ground	R3	3:43	UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2	Mar 9, 2024
L	#4Belal Muhammad Welterweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC 288: Sterling vs. Cejudo	May 6, 2023
W	#11Jorge Masvidal Welterweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 287: Pereira vs. Adesanya 2	Apr 8, 2023
W	#12Neil Magny Welterweight	Submission	Arm Triangle From Mount	R1	4:15	UFC 283: Teixeira vs. Hill	Jan 21, 2023
L	#11Khamzat Chimaev Welterweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie	Apr 9, 2022
W	#4Stephen Thompson Welterweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3	Jul 10, 2021
L	CKamaru UsmanTitle Welterweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head On Ground	R3	0:34	UFC 258: Usman vs. Burns	Feb 13, 2021
W	#1Tyron Woodley Welterweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Woodley vs. Burns	May 30, 2020
W	#5Demian Maia Welterweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head At Distance	R1	2:34	UFC Fight Night: Lee vs. Oliveira	Mar 14, 2020
W	#12Gunnar Nelson Welterweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Cannonier	Sep 28, 2019
W	Aleksei Kunchenko Welterweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Shevchenko vs. Carmouche 2	Aug 10, 2019
W	Mike Davis Lightweight	Submission	Rear Naked Choke	R2	4:15	UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Hermansson	Apr 27, 2019
W	#15Olivier Aubin-Mercier Lightweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega	Dec 8, 2018
L	Dan Hooker Lightweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head At Distance	R1	2:28	UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier	Jul 7, 2018
W	Dan Moret Lightweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head In Clinch	R2	0:59	UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Gaethje	Apr 14, 2018
W	Jason Saggo Lightweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head At Distance	R2	4:55	UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Branch	Sep 16, 2017
L	Michel Prazeres Lightweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Cyborg vs. Lansberg	Sep 24, 2016
W	Lukasz Sajewski Lightweight	Submission	Armbar From Back Control	R1	4:57	UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Alvarez	Jul 7, 2016
L	Rashid Magomedov Lightweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson 3	Nov 7, 2015
W	Alex Oliveira Lightweight	Submission	Armbar On Ground	R3	4:14	UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. LaFlare	Mar 21, 2015
W	Christos Giagos Lightweight	Submission	Armbar On Ground	R1	4:57	UFC 179: Aldo vs. Mendes 2	Oct 25, 2014
W	Andreas Stahl Welterweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC on FOX: Lawler vs. Brown	Jul 26, 2014

Outside the UFC

7-0across 7 bouts · 7 promotions · wins by 3 KO · 4 subFTF 7 · CEF 8 · MSA 3 · CPMMAF · WOCS +2

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Paulo Teixeira17-8	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	1:02	FTF 7	May 2, 2014
W	Paulo da Silva30-27	KO/TKO	Punch	R1	4:57	CEF 8	Dec 5, 2013
W	Rodolfo Rodrigues2-2	Submission	Armbar	R1	0:00	MSA 3	Mar 25, 2013
W	Paulo Roberto4-27-1	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	1:30	CPMMAF	Aug 4, 2012
W	Vinicius Bohrer16-8	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	1:59	WOCS	Jul 27, 2012
W	Herles dos Santos0-1	Submission	Armbar	R1	3:30	Ichigeki	Jun 15, 2012
W	Jose Salgado3-3	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	2:40	CFC	Jan 28, 2012

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

6 wins, 5 losses

W6

L5

Submission

9 wins, 0 losses

W9

L0

Decision

7 wins, 5 losses

W7

L5

Finishes

UFC KOs

3

Below avg · 13%Welterweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.16

Below avg · 0.24Welterweight

UFC submissions

5

Above avg · 7%Welterweight

Submission attempts / fight

0.36

Below avg · 0.39Welterweight

KO history

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

Gilbert Burns

PowerChin

Knockout rate

12%

3 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

4

0.70 per 100 head

Clean KO losses

5

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

12

1.57 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

12 scorecards on file

Gilbert Burns

Scorecard luck

Wrong end of the cards

No split or majority decisions on file — this read comes from contested rounds alone. Judges have given them 2 of 6 rounds they disagreed on (33%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

None on file

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

2–4

Won – Lost

33% went their way

Unanimous12 decisions · 100%

7W5L

Split

None

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

OverallC49th

48%974 / 2,025

Striking accuracy

52%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min-0.52 differential

Landed3.16

Absorbed3.68

53%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

+0%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head59%52nd571
Body22%63rd216
Leg19%64th187

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

Sig. strikes by position

76%Standing

Standing76%737
Clinch10%99
Ground14%138

Striking zones

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

UFC only

Gilbert Burns

Landed per 15

Head

C

52nd

27.8

52nd

Body

B

64th

10.5

64th

Leg

B

65th

9.1

65th

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

D

32nd

37.2

32nd

Body

C

49th

9.5

49th

Leg

D

39th

8.4

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	27.8	571	1,506	38%
Body	10.5	216	279	77%
Leg	9.1	187	240	78%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	37.2	766	1,896	40%
Body	9.5	196	298	66%
Leg	8.4	173	197	88%

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

Gilbert Burns

36%

Takedown accuracy

54%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min+1.6 min net

On top3.4

On bottom1.8

Offense

Takedowns

A

70th

2.0

70th

TD accuracy

C

47th

36%

47th

Sub attempts

B

59th

0.4

59th

Control

B

61st

3.4 min

61st

Defense

TD defense

D

41st

54%

41st

Controlled

1.8 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	42 / 118
Submission attempts	9
Control time	70:21

Defense

TDs defended	22 / 41
Control absorbed	36:52

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (309min 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

Gilbert Burns

25 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 309 min

108%

R3 pace · 16 bouts

Burns fades (-7% per round through round 5). Within fights that reached round 3, Burns lifts to 108% of round-1 output by round 3 (16 bouts).

Burns ▼ 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

Burnslanded / min

Takedown attempts

Burnsattempts / min

Control time

Burns% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	5.3	3.0	3.0	0.42	25%	25
R2	5.3	3.4	4.0	0.35	22%	19
R3	5.4	3.3	4.0	0.38	24%	16
R4	4.5	2.7	3.8	0.33	18%	3
R5	4.1	2.7	5.2	0.33	10%	3

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

Gilbert Burns

25 resolved UFC bouts · 14 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

66/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

A+

93rd

71%

93rd

Win quality

B

66th

45%

66th

Opponent quality distribution

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

4

8

4

3

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	8	4-4	50%
Top-15	4	2-2	50%
Cross-div ranked	1	1-0	100%
Contender-level	1	0-1	0%
Established	1	1-0	100%
Building	3	3-0	100%
Unproven	3	3-0	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	Mike Malott#15	Top-15	64	Apr 18, 2026
L	Michael Morales#12	Top-5	77	May 17, 2025
L	Sean Brady#8	Top-5	84	Sep 7, 2024
L	Jack Della Maddalena#11	Champion	88	Mar 9, 2024
L	Belal Muhammad#4	Champion	93	May 6, 2023
W	Jorge Masvidal#11	Top-5	78	Apr 8, 2023
W	Neil Magny#12	Top-5	74	Jan 21, 2023
L	Khamzat Chimaev#11	Top-5	83	Apr 9, 2022
W	Stephen Thompson#4	Top-5	87	Jul 10, 2021
L	Kamaru UsmanCHAMP	Champion	100	Feb 13, 2021
W	Tyron Woodley#1	Champion	97	May 30, 2020
W	Demian Maia#5	Top-5	86	Mar 14, 2020
W	Gunnar Nelson#12	Top-15	69	Sep 28, 2019
W	Aleksei Kunchenko	Building	15	Aug 10, 2019
W	Mike Davis	Established	22	Apr 27, 2019
W	Olivier Aubin-Mercier#15	Top-15	60	Dec 8, 2018
L	Dan Hooker	Top-5	63	Jul 7, 2018
W	Dan Moret	Unproven	8	Apr 14, 2018
W	Jason Saggo	Building	18	Sep 16, 2017
L	Michel Prazeres	Contender-level	36	Sep 24, 2016
W	Lukasz Sajewski	Unproven	8	Jul 7, 2016
L	Rashid Magomedov	Top-15	48	Nov 7, 2015
W	Alex Oliveira	Cross-div ranked	32	Mar 21, 2015
W	Christos Giagos	Building	15	Oct 25, 2014
W	Andreas Stahl	Unproven	8	Jul 26, 2014

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

25 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

4-3

7 bouts

Typical camp

100–180 days

6-0

6 bouts

Long layoff

> 180 days

4-7

11 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

5-4

9 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

9-6

15 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

0-1

1 bout

As champion

defending the belt

—

As challenger

fighting for the belt

0-1

1 bout

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

2 months

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Gilbert Burns

Active

2 monthssince last bout

vs Mike Malott · Apr 18, 2026

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 11-2As underdog 4-8

67.0

DK avg

73.1

Median

105.5

Ceiling

23.4

Floor

44%

Boom

12%

Bust

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