Sam Hughes Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	Piera Rodriguez Women's Strawweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Vallejos	Mar 14, 2026
W	Shauna Bannon Women's Strawweight	Submission	Rear Naked Choke	R2	1:58	UFC Fight Night: Imavov vs. Borralho	Sep 6, 2025
W	Stephanie Luciano Women's Strawweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2	Mar 15, 2025
W	Viktoriia Dudakova Women's Strawweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov	Aug 3, 2024
L	Yazmin Jauregui Women's Strawweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2	Feb 24, 2024
W	Jaqueline Amorim Women's Strawweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 287: Pereira vs. Adesanya 2	Apr 8, 2023
L	Piera Rodriguez Women's Strawweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Araujo	Oct 15, 2022
W	Elise Reed Women's Strawweight	KO/TKO	Elbows to Head From Mount	R3	3:52	UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Vieira	May 21, 2022
W	Istela Nunes Women's Strawweight	Decision	Majority	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Muhammad	Apr 16, 2022
L	Luana Pinheiro Women's Strawweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate	Nov 20, 2021
L	Loma Lookboonmee Women's Strawweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Prochazka	May 1, 2021
L	Tecia Pennington Women's Strawweight	KO/TKO	Eye Injury	R1	5:00	UFC 256: Figueiredo vs. Moreno	Dec 12, 2020

Outside the UFC

5-1across 6 bouts · 4 promotions · wins by 1 KO · 3 sub · 1 decLFA · Excitefight · XKO 46 · COGA 62

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Danielle Hindley4-3	Submission	Guillotine Choke	R1	5:00	LFA	Oct 16, 2020
L	Vanessa Demopoulos11-8	Submission	Inverted Triangle Choke	R4	2:21	LFA	Jul 17, 2020
W	Lisa Mauldin6-5	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	LFA	Jan 31, 2020
W	Bethany Christensen0-2	Submission	Armbar	R1	0:52	Excitefight	Oct 19, 2019
W	Loren Benjar0-1	KO/TKO	Knee to the Body and Punches	R2	1:30	XKO 46	Jul 13, 2019
W	Kayla Frajman0-1	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	1:35	COGA 62	Feb 23, 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.

Amateur

2-3-1across 6 amateur bouts · 6 promotionsSFUMMA · COGA 61 · COGA 56 · BFL 47 · X-1 44 +1

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Melanie McIntyre0-1	Decision	Unanimous	R5	3:00	SFUMMA	Oct 13, 2018
L	Lupita Godinez14-6	Decision	Unanimous	R5	3:00	COGA 61	Apr 21, 2018
D	Lupita Godinez14-6	Draw	Split	R3	3:00	COGA 56	Jul 15, 2017
L	Shawna Ram1-0	Decision	Unanimous	R5	3:00	BFL 47	Feb 18, 2017
L	Tiani Valle3-4	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	X-1 44	Sep 24, 2016
W	Marinna Vela1-2	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R2	2:10	ExciteFight	Aug 6, 2016

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

4 wins, 1 loss

W4

L1

Decision

5 wins, 5 losses

W5

L5

Finishes

UFC KOs

1

Above avg · 6%Strawweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.00

UFC submissions

1

Above avg · 8%Strawweight

Submission attempts / fight

0.17

KO history

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

Sam Hughes

PowerChin

Knockout rate

8%

1 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

0

0.00 per 100 head

Clean KO losses

0

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

1

0.25 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

7 scorecards on file

Sam Hughes

Scorecard luck

Cards have leaned their way

Won 3 of 3 coin-flip decisions — the kind of close calls that have tended to fall their way. Judges have given them 4 of 5 rounds they disagreed on (80%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

3–0

Won – Lost

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

4–1

Won – Lost

80% went their way

Unanimous4 decisions · 57%

1W3L

Split2 decisions · 29%

2W

Majority1 decision · 14%

1W

10-8 rounds

4 rounds total

4

Won

0

Lost

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallC48th

47%710 / 1,494

Striking accuracy

58%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min-0.28 differential

Landed4.41

Absorbed4.69

61%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

+5%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head67%—478
Body17%—121
Leg16%—111

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

Sig. strikes by position

76%Standing

Standing76%543
Clinch11%78
Ground13%89

Striking zones

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

UFC only

Sam Hughes

Landed per 15

Head

44.6

Body

11.3

Leg

10.4

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

36.8

Body

24.8

Leg

8.7

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	44.6	478	1,162	41%
Body	11.3	121	187	65%
Leg	10.4	111	145	77%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	36.8	395	1,304	30%
Body	24.8	266	371	72%
Leg	8.7	93	125	74%

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

Sam Hughes

29%

Takedown accuracy

63%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min+2.4 min net

On top4.0

On bottom1.7

Offense

Takedowns

1.1

TD accuracy

29%

Sub attempts

0.2

Control

4.0 min

Defense

TD defense

63%

Controlled

1.7 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	12 / 41
Submission attempts	2
Control time	43:24

Defense

TDs defended	33 / 52
Control absorbed	17:58

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (161min 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

Sam Hughes

12 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 161 min

128%

R3 pace · 10 bouts

Hughes builds (+11% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Hughes lifts to 128% of round-1 output by round 3 (10 bouts).

Hughes ▲ 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

Hugheslanded / min

Takedown attempts

Hughesattempts / min

Control time

Hughes% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	5.6	4.0	5.2	0.28	19%	12
R2	6.3	4.2	4.6	0.25	33%	11
R3	7.0	5.2	4.2	0.23	29%	10

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

Sam Hughes

12 resolved UFC bouts

Schedule Score

31/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

F

24th

23%

24th

Win quality

C

47th

39%

47th

Opponent quality distribution

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

3

5

1

Top-15Ranked #6–#15 at the time
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
Top-15	3	0-3	0%
Established	3	1-2	33%
Building	5	4-1	80%
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	Piera Rodriguez	Established	26	Mar 14, 2026
W	Shauna Bannon	Building	18	Sep 6, 2025
W	Stephanie Luciano	Building	15	Mar 15, 2025
W	Viktoriia Dudakova	Building	15	Aug 3, 2024
L	Yazmin Jauregui	Building	18	Feb 24, 2024
W	Jaqueline Amorim	Established	22	Apr 8, 2023
L	Piera Rodriguez	Established	22	Oct 15, 2022
W	Elise Reed	Building	15	May 21, 2022
W	Istela Nunes	Unproven	8	Apr 16, 2022
L	Luana Pinheiro	Top-15	48	Nov 20, 2021
L	Loma Lookboonmee	Top-15	46	May 1, 2021
L	Tecia Pennington	Top-15	52	Dec 12, 2020

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

12 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

4-2

6 bouts

Long layoff

> 180 days

1-3

4 bouts

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

3-2

5 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

3-3

6 bouts

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

0-1

1 bout

Revenge bouts

lost the first meeting

0-1

1 bout

Encore bouts

won the first meeting

—

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

Sam Hughes

Active

3 monthssince last bout

vs Piera Rodriguez · Mar 14, 2026

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 1-0As underdog 5-6

62.9

DK avg

81.2

Median

97.2

Ceiling

30.3

Floor

50%

Boom

8%

Bust

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