Israel Adesanya Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	#14Joe Pyfer Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head From Mount	R2	4:18	UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Pyfer	Mar 28, 2026
L	#5Nassourdine Imavov Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head At Distance	R2	0:30	UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Imavov	Feb 1, 2025
L	CDricus Du PlessisTitle Middleweight	Submission	Rear Naked Choke	R4	3:38	UFC 305: Du Plessis vs. Adesanya	Aug 17, 2024
L	#5Sean StricklandTitle Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland	Sep 9, 2023
W	CAlex PereiraTitle Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head At Distance	R2	4:21	UFC 287: Pereira vs. Adesanya 2	Apr 8, 2023
L	#4Alex PereiraTitle Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head At Distance	R5	2:01	UFC 281: Adesanya vs. Pereira	Nov 12, 2022
W	#2Jared CannonierTitle Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier	Jul 2, 2022
W	#1Robert WhittakerTitle Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2	Feb 12, 2022
W	#3Marvin VettoriTitle Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2	Jun 12, 2021
L	CJan BlachowiczTitle Light Heavyweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya	Mar 6, 2021
W	#2Paulo CostaTitle Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head At Distance	R2	3:59	UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa	Sep 26, 2020
W	#3Yoel RomeroTitle Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC 248: Adesanya vs. Romero	Mar 7, 2020
W	CRobert WhittakerTitle Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head At Distance	R2	3:33	UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya	Oct 5, 2019
W	#4Kelvin GastelumTitle Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC 236: Holloway vs. Poirier 2	Apr 13, 2019
W	#15Anderson Silva Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 234: Adesanya vs. Silva	Feb 9, 2019
W	#6Derek Brunson Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head At Distance	R1	4:51	UFC 230: Cormier vs. Lewis	Nov 3, 2018
W	#8Brad Tavares Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	The Ultimate Fighter: Undefeated Finale	Jul 6, 2018
W	Marvin Vettori Middleweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Gaethje	Apr 14, 2018
W	Rob Wilkinson Middleweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head At Distance	R2	3:37	UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold	Feb 10, 2018

Outside the UFC

11-0across 11 bouts · 8 promotions · wins by 11 KOWLF · HFS · AFC 20 · Glory of Heroes 2 · FPF +3

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Stuart Dare9-10	KO/TKO	Head Kick	R1	4:53	HFS	Nov 24, 2017
W	Melvin Guillard33-24-2	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	4:49	AFC 20	Jul 28, 2017
W	Murad Kuramagomedov10-2	KO/TKO	Punches	R2	1:05	WLF	May 28, 2016
W	Andrew Flores Smith18-13	KO/TKO	Corner Stoppage	R1	5:00	Glory of Heroes 2	May 7, 2016
W	Dibir Zagirov15-5	KO/TKO	Punches	R2	2:23	WLF	Mar 13, 2016
W	Vladimir Katykhin39-10-1	KO/TKO	Doctor Stoppage	R2	—	WLF	Jan 13, 2016
W	Gele Qing26-10-1	KO/TKO	Elbows	R2	3:37	WLF	Sep 19, 2015
W	Maui Tuigamala4-3	KO/TKO	Kick to the Body	R2	1:25	FPF	Sep 5, 2015
W	Kenan Song22-9	KO/TKO	Head Kick	R1	1:59	WFC	Aug 8, 2015
W	John Vake14-10	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	4:43	Shuriken MMA	Jun 15, 2013
W	James Griffiths0-4	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	2:09	SFC 9	Mar 24, 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.

Amateur

0-1across 1 amateur bout · 1 promotionICNZ

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
L	Neroni Savaiinaea3-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	3:00	ICNZ	Nov 28, 2009

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

16 wins, 3 losses

W16

L3

Submission

0 wins, 1 loss

W0

L1

Decision

8 wins, 2 losses

W8

L2

Finishes

UFC KOs

5

Above avg · 15%Middleweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.68

Above avg · 0.24Middleweight

UFC submissions

0

Below avg · 8%Middleweight

Submission attempts / fight

0.16

Below avg · 0.39Middleweight

KO history

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

Israel Adesanya

PowerChin

Knockout rate

26%

5 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

13

2.02 per 100 head

Clean KO losses

3

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

2

0.33 per 100 head

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

Decision behavior

Judging

7 scorecards on file

Israel Adesanya

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 7 rounds they disagreed on (29%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

None on file

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

2–5

Won – Lost

29% went their way

Unanimous7 decisions · 100%

5W2L

Split

None

Majority

None

10-8 rounds

5 rounds total

3

Won

2

Lost

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallB66th

48%1,313 / 2,714

Striking accuracy

55%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min+0.81 differential

Landed4.03

Absorbed3.22

66%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

+3%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head49%57th645
Body21%72nd274
Leg30%94th394

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

Sig. strikes by position

92%Standing

Standing92%1,212
Clinch5%64
Ground3%37

Striking zones

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

UFC only

Israel Adesanya

Landed per 15

Head

C

58th

29.7

58th

Body

A

76th

12.6

76th

Leg

A+

95th

18.1

95th

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

57th

28.0

57th

Body

D

36th

10.3

36th

Leg

D

25th

9.9

25th

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	29.7	645	1,843	35%
Body	12.6	274	394	70%
Leg	18.1	394	477	83%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	28.0	609	1,767	34%
Body	10.3	224	309	72%
Leg	9.9	216	296	73%

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

Israel Adesanya

9%

Takedown accuracy

76%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min-1.5 min net

On top0.5

On bottom1.9

Offense

Takedowns

F

19th

0.0

19th

TD accuracy

F

17th

9%

17th

Sub attempts

D

40th

0.1

40th

Control

F

14th

0.5 min

14th

Defense

TD defense

A

76th

76%

76th

Controlled

1.9 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	1 / 11
Submission attempts	3
Control time	10:15

Defense

TDs defended	81 / 106
Control absorbed	42:14

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (326min 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

Israel Adesanya

19 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 326 min

138%

R3 pace · 12 bouts

Adesanya holds steady (+1% per round through round 5). Within fights that reached round 3, Adesanya lifts to 138% of round-1 output by round 3 (12 bouts).

Adesanya — HOLDSOutput / 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

Adesanyalanded / min

Takedown attempts

Adesanyaattempts / min

Control time

Adesanya% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	3.4	3.3	2.7	0.01	0%	19
R2	5.3	5.0	3.4	0.07	2%	18
R3	4.4	4.0	2.8	0.05	7%	12
R4	4.1	3.9	3.8	0.02	3%	10
R5	4.1	3.9	4.0	0.00	5%	9

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

Israel Adesanya

19 resolved UFC bouts · 17 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

91/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

A+

100th

86%

100th

Win quality

A+

96th

70%

96th

Opponent quality distribution

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

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

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Champion	8	4-4	50%
Top-5	8	7-1	88%
Top-15	2	1-1	50%
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	Joe Pyfer#14	Top-15	70	Mar 28, 2026
L	Nassourdine Imavov#5	Top-5	86	Feb 1, 2025
L	Dricus Du PlessisCHAMP	Champion	100	Aug 17, 2024
L	Sean Strickland#5	Champion	92	Sep 9, 2023
W	Alex PereiraCHAMP	Champion	100	Apr 8, 2023
L	Alex Pereira#4	Champion	93	Nov 12, 2022
W	Jared Cannonier#2	Top-5	87	Jul 2, 2022
W	Robert Whittaker#1	Champion	97	Feb 12, 2022
W	Marvin Vettori#3	Top-5	86	Jun 12, 2021
L	Jan BlachowiczCHAMP	Champion	100	Mar 6, 2021
W	Paulo Costa#2	Top-5	87	Sep 26, 2020
W	Yoel Romero#3	Top-5	88	Mar 7, 2020
W	Robert WhittakerCHAMP	Champion	100	Oct 5, 2019
W	Kelvin Gastelum#4	Top-5	83	Apr 13, 2019
W	Anderson Silva#15	Champion	86	Feb 9, 2019
W	Derek Brunson#6	Top-5	79	Nov 3, 2018
W	Brad Tavares#8	Top-15	72	Jul 6, 2018
W	Marvin Vettori	Top-5	63	Apr 14, 2018
W	Rob Wilkinson	Unproven	8	Feb 10, 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

19 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

5-0

5 bouts

Typical camp

100–180 days

5-4

9 bouts

Long layoff

> 180 days

2-2

4 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

2-3

5 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

10-3

13 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

8-4

12 bouts

As champion

defending the belt

6-2

8 bouts

As challenger

fighting for the belt

2-2

4 bouts

Rematches

Performance when meeting an opponent again

All rematches

any second meeting

3-0

3 bouts

Revenge bouts

lost the first meeting

1-0

1 bout

Encore bouts

won the first meeting

2-0

2 bouts

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

Israel Adesanya

Active

3 monthssince last bout

vs Joe Pyfer · Mar 28, 2026

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 13-5

71.0

DK avg

75.4

Median

104.4

Ceiling

37.6

Floor

47%

Boom

5%

Bust

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