Rafael Cerqueira Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev Light Heavyweight	Submission	Rear Naked Choke	R1	0:33	UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker	Nov 22, 2025
L	Julius Walker Light Heavyweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Hernandez	Aug 9, 2025
L	Modestas Bukauskas Light Heavyweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head At Distance	R1	2:12	UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Song	Feb 22, 2025
L	Ibo Aslan Light Heavyweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head At Distance	R1	0:51	UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway	Oct 26, 2024

Outside the UFC

11-0across 11 bouts · 5 promotions · wins by 8 KO · 2 sub · 1 decDF · VFE / Brave CF 78 · Qualify Combat 10 · Imperium · Qualify Combat 9

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Rodrigo Araujo Silva7-4	KO/TKO	Punch	R1	4:58	DF	Apr 28, 2024
W	Ivonilson Dias Santos3-2	KO/TKO	Elbow	R1	4:18	DF	Jan 27, 2024
W	Jhonathan Souza4-2	KO/TKO	Body Kick	R1	1:17	VFE / Brave CF 78	Dec 7, 2023
W	Gutembergue Souza da Silva0-9	Submission	—	R1	0:45	DF	Jul 29, 2023
W	Jose Otavio dos Santos Lacerda9-8	KO/TKO	Retirement	R2	4:15	DF	Mar 25, 2023
W	Wesley Almeida20-15	KO/TKO	Punch	R2	3:30	DF	Sep 24, 2022
W	Silvio Jose da Silva11-9	Submission	Arm-Triangle Choke	R1	4:59	DF	May 28, 2022
W	Fernando Filho7-5	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Qualify Combat 10	Apr 2, 2022
W	Bruno Leonardo2-4	KO/TKO	—	R1	4:40	DF	Sep 25, 2021
W	Benicio Dias0-6	KO/TKO	Head Kick	R1	0:45	Imperium	Aug 14, 2021
W	Gustavo Dos Santos Tosta0-5	KO/TKO	Kick On The Body	R1	0:35	Qualify Combat 9	Sep 7, 2019

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

8 wins, 2 losses

W8

L2

Submission

2 wins, 1 loss

W2

L1

Decision

1 win, 1 loss

W1

L1

KO history

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

Rafael Cerqueira

PowerChin

Knockout rate

—

No UFC win on record

Knockdowns dealt

—

No UFC win on record

Clean KO losses

2

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

3

4.35 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

1 scorecard on file

Rafael Cerqueira

Unanimous1 decision · 100%

1L

Split

None

Majority

None

10-8 rounds

1 round total

0

Won

1

Lost

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallD33rd

43%29 / 66

Striking accuracy

36%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min-3.49 differential

Landed1.56

Absorbed5.05

36%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

-21%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head66%46th19
Body0%37th0
Leg34%56th10

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

Sig. strikes by position

100%Standing

Standing100%29
Clinch0%0
Ground0%0

Striking zones

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

UFC only

Rafael Cerqueira

Landed per 15

Head

F

16th

15.3

16th

Body

F

2nd

0.0

2nd

Leg

C

54th

8.1

54th

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

F

16th

55.6

16th

Body

D

41st

11.3

41st

Leg

C

46th

8.9

46th

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	15.3	19	54	35%
Body	0.0	0	2	0%
Leg	8.1	10	10	100%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	55.6	69	122	57%
Body	11.3	14	15	93%
Leg	8.9	11	12	92%

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

Rafael Cerqueira

—

Takedown accuracy

36%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min-9.5 min net

On top0.4

On bottom9.8

Offense

Takedowns

C

56th

0.0

56th

TD accuracy

—

Sub attempts

B

64th

0.0

64th

Control

C

46th

0.4 min

46th

Defense

TD defense

F

25th

36%

25th

Controlled

9.8 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	0 / 0
Submission attempts	0
Control time	0:27

Defense

TDs defended	4 / 11
Control absorbed	12:12

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (19min 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

Rafael Cerqueira

4 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 19 min

—

< 2 bouts to R3

Cerqueira 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.

CerqueiraOutput / 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

Cerqueiralanded / min

Takedown attempts

Cerqueiraattempts / min

Control time

Cerqueira% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	Control	Bouts
R1	2.6	2.4	7.3	3%	4
R2	0.2	0.2	2.6	0%	1
R3	1.5	1.4	3.6	3%	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

Rafael Cerqueira

4 resolved UFC bouts

Schedule Score

29/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

F

14th

18%

14th

Win quality

D

26th

32%

26th

Limited UFC sample (4 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

Contender-level8+ UFC wins entering the bout, ≥.55 win rate
Building3+ UFC fights, ≥.40 win rate
UnprovenFewer than 3 fights, or sub-.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Contender-level	1	0-1	0%
Building	2	0-2	0%
Unproven	1	0-1	0%

Highest-quality opponents

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

Pre-UFC opposition

Moderate

Opponents' combined record

63-69

.477 win rate

Winning-record opponents

7 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
L	Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev	Building	15	Nov 22, 2025
L	Julius Walker	Unproven	8	Aug 9, 2025
L	Modestas Bukauskas	Contender-level	36	Feb 22, 2025
L	Ibo Aslan	Building	15	Oct 26, 2024

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

4 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

—

Typical camp

100–180 days

0-3

3 bouts

Long layoff

> 180 days

—

UFC debut

first UFC bout

0-1

1 bout

Post-result bounce

Performance based on the previous UFC result

After a loss

next bout after a defeat

0-3

3 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

—

First UFC bout

no precedent

0-1

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

7 months

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Rafael Cerqueira

Within a year

7 monthssince last bout

vs Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev · Nov 22, 2025

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 0-1As underdog 0-3

3.7

DK avg

3.6

Median

10.6

Ceiling

0.0

Floor

0%

Boom

100%

Bust

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