Raquel Pennington Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	#1Julianna PenaTitle Women's Bantamweight	Decision	Split	R5	5:00	UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr.	Oct 5, 2024
W	#3Mayra Bueno SilvaTitle Women's Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis	Jan 20, 2024
W	#2Ketlen Vieira Women's Bantamweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Imavov	Jan 14, 2023
W	#4Aspen Ladd Women's Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie	Apr 9, 2022
W	Macy Chiasson Women's Featherweight	Submission	Guillotine Choke On Ground	R2	3:07	UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus	Dec 18, 2021
W	#12Pannie Kianzad Women's Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann	Sep 18, 2021
W	#10Marion Reneau Women's Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Volkov	Jun 20, 2020
L	#3Holly Holm Women's Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 246: McGregor vs. Cowboy	Jan 18, 2020
W	#9Irene Aldana Women's Bantamweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Edwards	Jul 20, 2019
L	#5Germaine de Randamie Women's Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Korean Zombie vs. Rodriguez	Nov 10, 2018
L	CAmanda NunesTitle Women's Bantamweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head From Back Control	R5	2:36	UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington	May 12, 2018
W	#1Miesha Tate Women's Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor	Nov 12, 2016
W	Elizabeth Phillips Women's Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2	Aug 20, 2016
W	#8Bethe Correia Women's Bantamweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC on FOX: Teixeira vs. Evans	Apr 16, 2016
W	#13Jessica Andrade Women's Bantamweight	Submission	Rear Naked Choke	R2	4:58	UFC 191: Johnson vs. Dodson 2	Sep 5, 2015
L	#13Holly Holm Women's Bantamweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC 184: Rousey vs. Zingano	Feb 28, 2015
W	Ashlee Evans-Smith Women's Bantamweight	Submission	Bulldog Choke On Ground Technical Submission	R1	4:59	UFC 181: Hendricks vs. Lawler II	Dec 6, 2014
L	#9Jessica Andrade Women's Bantamweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC 171: Hendricks vs. Lawler	Mar 15, 2014
W	Roxanne Modafferi Women's Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate Finale	Nov 30, 2013

Outside the UFC

3-3across 6 bouts · 4 promotions · wins by 1 KO · 1 sub · 1 decInvicta · Destiny MMA · RMBB / TB · MFP

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
L	Leslie Smith12-9-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Invicta	Jan 5, 2013
L	Cat Zingano14-5	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R2	3:32	Invicta	Oct 6, 2012
W	Raquel Canuto6-7	Submission	Guillotine Choke	R1	3:52	Destiny MMA	Sep 8, 2012
W	Sarah Moras6-7	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Invicta	Jul 28, 2012
L	Tori Adams1-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	RMBB / TB	Jun 22, 2012
W	Kim Couture3-8	KO/TKO	Knees to the Body	R2	2:25	MFP	Mar 3, 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

7-1across 8 amateur bouts · 6 promotionsRMBB · URC 13 · NMEF / RMBB · Kickdown 67 · Kickdown 62 +1

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Heather Denny1-2	Submission	Triangle Choke	R2	1:59	RMBB	Aug 12, 2011
W	J.J. Aldrich15-7	Submission	Triangle Choke and Punches	R1	1:44	RMBB	Jan 21, 2011
L	Taylor Guardado5-3	Decision	Split	R3	3:00	URC 13	Jun 11, 2010
W	Tsui-Jen Cunanan2-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	3:00	RMBB	Jan 16, 2010
W	Kyane Hampton3-5	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R2	0:45	NMEF / RMBB	Oct 24, 2009
W	Kyane Hampton3-5	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	2:52	Kickdown 67	Jun 20, 2009
W	Ericka Trujillo0-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	3:00	Kickdown 62	Apr 5, 2009
W	Staci Vega0-3-1	Submission	Guillotine Choke	R1	1:45	Kickdown 60	Feb 21, 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

1 win, 1 loss

W1

L1

Submission

4 wins, 1 loss

W4

L1

Decision

11 wins, 7 losses

W11

L7

Finishes

UFC KOs

0

Below avg · 6%W's Bantamweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.05

Below avg · 0.09W's Bantamweight

UFC submissions

3

Above avg · 11%W's Bantamweight

Submission attempts / fight

0.63

Above avg · 0.33W's Bantamweight

KO history

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

Raquel Pennington

PowerChin

Knockout rate

0%

0 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

1

0.14 per 100 head

Clean KO losses

1

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

0

0.00 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

10 scorecards on file

Raquel Pennington

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 2 of 6 rounds they disagreed on (33%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

2–1

Won – Lost

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

2–4

Won – Lost

33% went their way

Unanimous7 decisions · 70%

6W1L

Split3 decisions · 30%

2W1L

Majority

None

10-8 rounds

1 round total

1

Won

0

Lost

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallC53rd

49%1,193 / 2,426

Striking accuracy

61%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min+0.78 differential

Landed4.10

Absorbed3.32

62%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

+10%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head58%56th690
Body31%89th371
Leg11%48th132

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

Sig. strikes by position

62%Standing

Standing62%734
Clinch30%358
Ground8%101

Striking zones

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

UFC only

Raquel Pennington

Landed per 15

Head

B

58th

35.6

58th

Body

A+

92nd

19.1

92nd

Leg

C

47th

6.8

47th

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

B

63rd

28.6

63rd

Body

D

33rd

14.0

33rd

Leg

C

54th

7.2

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.

Career totals — landed / attempted

Landed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	35.6	690	1,831	38%
Body	19.1	371	447	83%
Leg	6.8	132	148	89%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	28.6	555	1,857	30%
Body	14.0	271	433	63%
Leg	7.2	140	192	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

Raquel Pennington

28%

Takedown accuracy

63%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min-0.4 min net

On top3.4

On bottom3.8

Offense

Takedowns

C

51st

0.8

51st

TD accuracy

D

38th

28%

38th

Sub attempts

A

73rd

0.6

73rd

Control

C

53rd

3.4 min

53rd

Defense

TD defense

C

56th

63%

56th

Controlled

3.8 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	16 / 58
Submission attempts	12
Control time	66:21

Defense

TDs defended	40 / 64
Control absorbed	73:46

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (291min 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

Raquel Pennington

19 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 291 min

149%

R3 pace · 16 bouts

Pennington builds (+10% per round through round 5). Within fights that reached round 3, Pennington lifts to 149% of round-1 output by round 3 (16 bouts).

Pennington ▲ BUILDSOutput / 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

Penningtonlanded / min

Takedown attempts

Penningtonattempts / min

Control time

Pennington% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	4.2	3.2	3.1	0.19	12%	19
R2	6.3	4.7	3.5	0.19	24%	18
R3	6.2	4.2	3.3	0.26	31%	16
R4	5.7	4.2	3.3	0.13	28%	3
R5	7.5	6.0	4.2	0.00	36%	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

Raquel Pennington

19 resolved UFC bouts · 15 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

80/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

A+

98th

80%

98th

Win quality

A+

90th

59%

90th

Opponent quality distribution

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

5

6

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	5	1-4	20%
Top-5	5	4-1	80%
Top-15	6	5-1	83%
Cross-div ranked	2	2-0	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	Julianna Pena#1	Champion	98	Oct 5, 2024
W	Mayra Bueno Silva#3	Top-5	86	Jan 20, 2024
W	Ketlen Vieira#2	Top-5	87	Jan 14, 2023
W	Aspen Ladd#4	Top-5	88	Apr 9, 2022
W	Macy Chiasson	Cross-div ranked	45	Dec 18, 2021
W	Pannie Kianzad#12	Top-15	72	Sep 18, 2021
W	Marion Reneau#10	Top-15	73	Jun 20, 2020
L	Holly Holm#3	Champion	94	Jan 18, 2020
W	Irene Aldana#9	Top-5	81	Jul 20, 2019
L	Germaine de Randamie#5	Top-5	89	Nov 10, 2018
L	Amanda NunesCHAMP	Champion	100	May 12, 2018
W	Miesha Tate#1	Champion	97	Nov 12, 2016
W	Elizabeth Phillips	Unproven	8	Aug 20, 2016
W	Bethe Correia#8	Top-15	73	Apr 16, 2016
W	Jessica Andrade#13	Top-15	71	Sep 5, 2015
L	Holly Holm#13	Champion	87	Feb 28, 2015
W	Ashlee Evans-Smith	Top-15	46	Dec 6, 2014
L	Jessica Andrade#9	Top-15	73	Mar 15, 2014
W	Roxanne Modafferi	Cross-div ranked	32	Nov 30, 2013

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

2-1

3 bouts

Typical camp

100–180 days

3-1

4 bouts

Long layoff

> 180 days

7-4

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

4-1

5 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

8-5

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

1-2

3 bouts

As champion

defending the belt

0-1

1 bout

As challenger

fighting for the belt

1-1

2 bouts

Rematches

Performance when meeting an opponent again

All rematches

any second meeting

1-1

2 bouts

Revenge bouts

lost the first meeting

1-1

2 bouts

Encore bouts

won the first meeting

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Activity & layoff

Last fight, activity, and divisional context.

Time since last UFC bout

1y 9mo

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Raquel Pennington

Extended layoff

1y 9mosince last bout

vs Julianna Pena · Oct 5, 2024

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 7-1As underdog 6-5

70.7

DK avg

75.5

Median

94.9

Ceiling

37.6

Floor

32%

Boom

5%

Bust

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