Zac Pauga Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	Bogdan Guskov Light Heavyweight	KO/TKO	Punches to Head At Distance	R1	3:38	UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Pyfer	Feb 10, 2024
L	Modestas Bukauskas Light Heavyweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Cannonier	Jun 17, 2023
W	Jordan Wright Light Heavyweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Blanchfield	Feb 18, 2023
L	Mohammed Usman Heavyweight	KO/TKO	Punch to Head At Distance	R2	0:36	UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Hill	Aug 6, 2022

Outside the UFC

6-1across 7 bouts · 4 promotions · wins by 1 KO · 1 sub · 4 decLFA · Xtreme Fighting Championships · CW 130 · CW 126

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
L	Alex Nicholson19-14	KO/TKO	Elbows and Punches	R2	1:16	Xtreme Fighting Championships	Sep 27, 2024
W	Jamahl Tatum6-4	Submission	Arm-Triangle Choke	R1	2:43	Xtreme Fighting Championships	May 31, 2024
W	Markus Perez15-7	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	CW 130	Oct 17, 2021
W	Terrance Jean-Jacques9-4	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	CW 126	Aug 1, 2021
W	Logan Nail3-2	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	LFA	Apr 23, 2021
W	Ashby Thomas1-1	KO/TKO	Elbows and Punches	R1	2:21	LFA	Jan 29, 2021
W	Zac Cavender5-3	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	LFA	Jul 31, 2020

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

5-0across 5 amateur bouts · 3 promotionsSCL · Mile High MMAyhem · NMEF

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Roman Marquez2-5	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	2:00	SCL	Feb 29, 2020
W	Hammer Morton4-2	Decision	Unanimous	R3	3:00	SCL	Dec 14, 2019
W	Christian Porter3-2	Submission	—	R2	2:46	Mile High MMAyhem	Nov 8, 2019
W	Ryan Schulman0-1	KO/TKO	Punches	R2	2:25	NMEF	Sep 14, 2019
W	Charles Bullard0-1	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	0:11	SCL	Jan 26, 2019

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, 3 losses

W1

L3

Submission

1 win, 0 losses

W1

L0

Decision

5 wins, 1 loss

W5

L1

KO history

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

Zac Pauga

PowerChin

Knockout rate

0%

0 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

0

0.00 per 100 head

Clean KO losses

2

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

2

2.56 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

2 scorecards on file

Zac Pauga

Scorecard luck

Cards have leaned their way

No split or majority decisions on file — this read comes from contested rounds alone. Judges have given them 2 of 2 rounds they disagreed on (100%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

None on file

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

2–0

Won – Lost

100% went their way

Unanimous2 decisions · 100%

1W1L

Split

None

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

OverallB66th

62%175 / 278

Striking accuracy

58%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min+1.73 differential

Landed4.46

Absorbed2.73

79%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

+20%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head50%56th87
Body33%85th57
Leg18%69th31

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

Sig. strikes by position

71%Standing

Standing71%124
Clinch28%49
Ground1%2

Striking zones

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

UFC only

Zac Pauga

Landed per 15

Head

C

57th

33.3

57th

Body

A+

96th

21.8

96th

Leg

A

82nd

11.9

82nd

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

53rd

29.8

53rd

Body

C

44th

9.2

44th

Leg

A+

89th

1.9

89th

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	33.3	87	176	49%
Body	21.8	57	69	83%
Leg	11.9	31	33	94%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	29.8	78	219	36%
Body	9.2	24	34	71%
Leg	1.9	5	6	83%

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

Zac Pauga

8%

Takedown accuracy

100%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min+4.0 min net

On top4.6

On bottom0.6

Offense

Takedowns

C

51st

0.4

51st

TD accuracy

F

23rd

8%

23rd

Sub attempts

B

60th

0.0

60th

Control

B

66th

4.6 min

66th

Defense

TD defense

100%

Controlled

0.6 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	1 / 13
Submission attempts	0
Control time	12:01

Defense

TDs defended	2 / 2
Control absorbed	1:39

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

Zac Pauga

4 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 39 min

78%

R3 pace · 2 bouts

Pauga fades (-10% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Pauga drops to 78% of round-1 output by round 3 (2 bouts).

Pauga ▼ FADESOutput / 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

Paugalanded / min

Takedown attempts

Paugaattempts / min

Control time

Pauga% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	7.2	4.6	2.0	0.32	41%	4
R2	6.6	4.1	3.1	0.38	34%	3
R3	5.9	4.7	3.7	0.30	7%	2

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

Zac Pauga

4 resolved UFC bouts

Schedule Score

31/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

D

41st

29%

41st

Win quality

F

15th

27%

15th

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

Top-15Ranked #6–#15 at the time
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
Top-15	1	0-1	0%
Contender-level	1	0-1	0%
Building	1	0-1	0%
Unproven	1	1-0	100%

Highest-quality opponents

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

Pre-UFC opposition

Strong

Opponents' combined record

58-35

.624 win rate

Winning-record opponents

6 of 7

carried winning pro records

Pro bouts faced

7

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	Bogdan Guskov	Top-15	49	Feb 10, 2024
L	Modestas Bukauskas	Contender-level	36	Jun 17, 2023
W	Jordan Wright	Unproven	8	Feb 18, 2023
L	Mohammed Usman	Building	15	Aug 6, 2022

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

0-1

1 bout

Long layoff

> 180 days

1-1

2 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

1-1

2 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

0-1

1 bout

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

1y 9mo

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Zac Pauga

Extended layoff

1y 9mosince last bout

vs Alex Nicholson · Sep 27, 2024

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 1-2As underdog 0-1

33.4

DK avg

36.9

Median

74.4

Ceiling

9.1

Floor

0%

Boom

50%

Bust

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