Joseph Morales Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
W	#15Matt Schnell Flyweight	Submission	Guillotine Choke From Guard	R1	2:54	UFC Fight Night: Bonfim vs. Brown	Nov 8, 2025
W	Alibi IdirisTitle Flyweight	Submission	Triangle Choke From Bottom Guard	R2	3:04	UFC 319: Du Plessis vs. Chimaev	Aug 16, 2025
L	Eric Shelton Flyweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Korean Zombie vs. Rodriguez	Nov 10, 2018
L	#14Deiveson Figueiredo Flyweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head At Distance	R2	4:34	UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders	Feb 3, 2018
W	Robert Sanchez Flyweight	Submission	Rear Naked Choke	R1	3:56	UFC Fight Night: Pettis vs. Moreno	Aug 5, 2017

Outside the UFC

11-0across 11 bouts · 11 promotions · wins by 2 KO · 5 sub · 4 decUrijah Faber's A1 Combat 8 · CW 133 · CW 126 · CFFC 64 · GKO 8 +6

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Anthony Do9-8	Submission	Triangle Choke	R3	4:46	Urijah Faber's A1 Combat 8	Feb 3, 2023
W	Sidemar Honorio13-8	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	CW 133	Mar 4, 2022
W	Kevin Wirth8-3	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	CW 126	Aug 1, 2021
W	Sean Santella24-9-2	KO/TKO	Punches	R2	3:24	CFFC 64	Mar 25, 2017
W	Josh Paiva10-5	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	GKO 8	Nov 19, 2016
W	Gerald Bailey2-4	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	3:48	GKO 7	Aug 27, 2016
W	Sammy Saunders3-7	Submission	Triangle Choke	R1	3:50	GKO 6	Mar 26, 2016
W	Gerald Bailey2-4	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	2:30	GKO 4	Aug 29, 2015
W	Benji Gomez9-18	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R2	2:21	WFC 14	May 30, 2015
W	Roque Reyes0-4	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	1:43	WFC 13	Feb 28, 2015
W	Christian Espinosa3-5	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	WSOF 16	Dec 13, 2014

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

3-0-1across 4 amateur bouts · 1 promotion559 Fights

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	James Spear0-1	Submission	—	R1	1:43	559 Fights	Jun 13, 2014
W	J.J. Madrid0-1	Submission	—	R1	1:31	559 Fights	May 11, 2013
D	Holt Felkins3-1	Draw	—	R3	2:00	559 Fights	Jan 12, 2013
W	Tommy Thongseng2-2	Submission	—	R3	0:58	559 Fights	Dec 8, 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

2 wins, 1 loss

W2

L1

Submission

8 wins, 0 losses

W8

L0

Decision

4 wins, 1 loss

W4

L1

Finishes

UFC KOs

0

Below avg · 9%Flyweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.20

Below avg · 0.22Flyweight

UFC submissions

3

Above avg · 8%Flyweight

Submission attempts / fight

1.60

Above avg · 0.48Flyweight

KO history

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

Joseph Morales

PowerChin

Knockout rate

0%

0 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

1

2.00 per 100 head

Clean KO losses

1

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

1

2.27 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

1 scorecard on file

Joseph Morales

Scorecard luck

Wrong end of the cards

Won just 0 of 1 coin-flip decision — repeatedly on the wrong end of close calls. Judges have given them 1 of 3 rounds they disagreed on (33%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

0–1

Won – Lost

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

1–2

Won – Lost

33% went their way

Unanimous

None

Split1 decision · 100%

1L

Majority

None

10-8 rounds

None scoredno 10-8 rounds in this fighter’s decisions

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallC43rd

40%79 / 195

Striking accuracy

57%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min-0.05 differential

Landed2.00

Absorbed2.05

42%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

-3%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head63%41st50
Body29%52nd23
Leg8%36th6

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

Sig. strikes by position

56%Standing

Standing56%44
Clinch14%11
Ground30%24

Striking zones

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

UFC only

Joseph Morales

Landed per 15

Head

F

24th

19.0

24th

Body

C

44th

8.7

44th

Leg

F

10th

2.3

10th

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

A+

89th

16.7

89th

Body

C

49th

11.0

49th

Leg

A+

92nd

3.0

92nd

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	19.0	50	156	32%
Body	8.7	23	31	74%
Leg	2.3	6	8	75%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	16.7	44	145	30%
Body	11.0	29	38	76%
Leg	3.0	8	9	89%

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

Joseph Morales

43%

Takedown accuracy

27%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min-3.7 min net

On top2.5

On bottom6.3

Offense

Takedowns

C

54th

1.1

54th

TD accuracy

43%

Sub attempts

A+

93rd

3.0

93rd

Control

B

59th

2.5 min

59th

Defense

TD defense

F

15th

27%

15th

Controlled

6.3 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	3 / 7
Submission attempts	8
Control time	6:42

Defense

TDs defended	4 / 15
Control absorbed	16:29

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (39min 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

Joseph Morales

5 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 39 min

—

< 2 bouts to R3

Morales hasn't reached the third round in enough UFC bouts to read a reliable pace pattern — most of their fights end early. The round-by-round pace below is shown for what rounds there are.

MoralesOutput / 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

Moraleslanded / min

Takedown attempts

Moralesattempts / min

Control time

Morales% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	3.2	1.6	2.0	0.18	24%	5
R2	3.7	3.0	2.7	0.16	6%	3
R3	2.1	1.0	0.6	0.20	13%	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

Joseph Morales

5 resolved UFC bouts · 2 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

47/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

A

85th

57%

85th

Win quality

A

77th

49%

77th

Limited UFC sample (5 bouts). The headline Schedule Score is held toward a rookie baseline until a fighter has 6+ UFC bouts — a thin UFC résumé hasn’t yet proven a strong schedule. The component bars above are not down-weighted.

Opponent quality distribution

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

1

2

1

ChampionHeld the title in this weight class at the time
Top-15Ranked #6–#15 at the time
Title-fight challengerBout was for a title (no other rank signal)
UnprovenFewer than 3 fights, or sub-.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Champion	1	0-1	0%
Top-15	2	1-1	50%
Title-fight challenger	1	1-0	100%
Unproven	1	1-0	100%

Highest-quality opponents

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

Pre-UFC opposition

Moderate

Opponents' combined record

83-75-2

.525 win rate

Winning-record opponents

5 of 11

carried winning pro records

Pro bouts faced

11

all opponents have records on file

A descriptive read of the non-UFC slate from opponents’ full career pro records — not a UFC-grade Schedule Score.

All bouts — opponent quality bout-by-bout

Res	Opponent	Tier	Score	Date
W	Matt Schnell#15	Top-15	69	Nov 8, 2025
W	Alibi Idiris	Title-fight challenger	50	Aug 16, 2025
L	Eric Shelton	Top-15	46	Nov 10, 2018
L	Deiveson Figueiredo#14	Champion	87	Feb 3, 2018
W	Robert Sanchez	Unproven	8	Aug 5, 2017

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

5 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

1-0

1 bout

Typical camp

100–180 days

—

Long layoff

> 180 days

1-2

3 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

1-1

2 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

1-1

2 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

1-0

1 bout

As champion

defending the belt

—

As challenger

fighting for the belt

1-0

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

8 months

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Joseph Morales

Within a year

8 monthssince last bout

vs Matt Schnell · Nov 8, 2025

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 1-1As underdog 2-1

66.0

DK avg

100.6

Median

101.1

Ceiling

16.9

Floor

60%

Boom

40%

Bust

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