Last 5: L W W L W
Association: American Top Team
Pro Debut Date: 2009-12-20
Pro Record: 16-7-0
Current Ranking:
'Big League' Record: 12-7-0
Last 3 Years: 3-2-0
Win Finish %: 81.3%
Combat Age: 55
Quality Perf. %: 69.6%
Last Quality Perf.: 2024-02-24
540 Metric: .700
Rating Points: 597
Highest Quarterly Ranking: 7/01/2019

#2 Middleweight

All-Time Rank:

#14 Middleweight

Last Fight Date: 2/24/2024 [Professional Fighters League]
Last Opponent: [#13 LHW] Thiago Santos
Opponent's Last 5: W L L NC L
Last Loss Date: 6/16/2023
Last Loss: [#7 HW] Vadim Nemkov
Opponent's Last 5: W NC W W W
Longest Win Streak: 8 (2013-2016)
UFC Debut: 2013-04-20
Last UFC Fight: 2020-03-07

Quarterly Generated Historical Rankings
Rating bar represents the fighter's standing relative to the top of the division at the time

Date ↑ ↓ Rank Record Points
01/01/2024 2 #12 Light Heavyweight 15-7-0
374
10/01/2023 1 #10 Light Heavyweight 15-7-0
374
07/01/2023 1 #11 Light Heavyweight 15-7-0
374
04/01/2023 1 #10 Light Heavyweight 15-6-0
445
01/01/2023   #9 Light Heavyweight 15-6-0
473
10/01/2022 1 #9 Light Heavyweight 15-6-0
485
07/01/2022 1 #8 Light Heavyweight 14-6-0
488
04/01/2022   #9 Light Heavyweight 13-6-0
488
01/01/2022 1 #9 Light Heavyweight 13-6-0
488
10/01/2021 NR #8 Light Heavyweight 13-6-0
488
04/01/2021 1 #4 Middleweight 13-5-0
951
01/01/2021 2 #5 Middleweight 13-5-0
934
10/01/2020 3 #7 Middleweight 13-5-0
934
07/01/2020 1 #4 Middleweight 13-5-0
1032
04/01/2020   #5 Middleweight 13-5-0
1032
01/01/2020 2 #5 Middleweight 13-4-0
1048
10/01/2019 1 #3 Middleweight 13-4-0
1072
07/01/2019   #2 Middleweight 13-3-0
1415
04/01/2019   #2 Middleweight 13-3-0
1484
01/01/2019   #2 Middleweight 13-3-0
1484
10/01/2018   #2 Middleweight 13-3-0
1484
07/01/2018   #2 Middleweight 13-3-0
1484
04/01/2018 2 #2 Middleweight 13-2-0
1493
01/01/2018 1 #4 Middleweight 12-2-0
1228
10/01/2017 3 #5 Middleweight 12-2-0
1228
07/01/2017   #2 Middleweight 12-1-0
1402
04/01/2017   #2 Middleweight 12-1-0
1402
01/01/2017 2 #2 Middleweight 12-1-0
1402
10/01/2016   #4 Middleweight 11-1-0
933
07/01/2016 1 #4 Middleweight 11-1-0
933
04/01/2016   #3 Middleweight 11-1-0
845
01/01/2016   #3 Middleweight 11-1-0
845
10/01/2015   #3 Middleweight 10-1-0
758
07/01/2015 4 #3 Middleweight 10-1-0
758
04/01/2015   #7 Middleweight 9-1-0
449
01/01/2015   #7 Middleweight 9-1-0
449
10/01/2014 7 #7 Middleweight 9-1-0
449
07/01/2014 3 #14 Middleweight 8-1-0
278
04/01/2014 8 #17 Middleweight 7-1-0
216
01/01/2014 74 #25 Middleweight 6-1-0
149
10/01/2013 6 #99 Middleweight 5-1-0
62
07/01/2013 NR #105 Middleweight 5-1-0
62
10/01/2012 3 #130 Light Heavyweight 4-1-0
34
07/01/2012 11 #133 Light Heavyweight 4-1-0
35
04/01/2012 3 #122 Light Heavyweight 4-1-0
36
01/01/2012   #119 Light Heavyweight 4-1-0
37
10/01/2011 9 #119 Light Heavyweight 4-1-0
37
07/01/2011 12 #110 Light Heavyweight 4-0-0
37
04/01/2011   #122 Light Heavyweight 3-0-0
37
01/01/2011 NR #122 Light Heavyweight 2-0-0
37
04/01/2010 7 #234 Light Heavyweight 1-0-0
20
01/01/2010 NR #241 Light Heavyweight 1-0-0
20


Complete Professional MMA Fight History
Fighter rankings represent most recent generated quarterly rating prior to the fight

  Opponent Event Outcome
W Thiago Santos
#13 Light Heavyweight
  Professional Fighters League - PFL vs. Bellator Ch...
Saturday, February 24th 2024
Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
L Vadim Nemkov
#3 Light Heavyweight
  Bellator 297: Nemkov vs. Romero
Friday, June 16th 2023
Decision (Unanimous)
Round 5
W Melvin Manhoef   Bellator 285 - Henderson vs. Queally
Friday, September 23rd 2022
KO (Elbows)
Round 3
W Alex Polizzi
#31 Light Heavyweight
  Bellator 280 - Bader vs. Kongo 2
Friday, May 6th 2022
TKO (Punches)
Round 3
L Phil Davis
#6 Light Heavyweight
  Bellator 266 - Romero vs. Davis
Saturday, September 18th 2021
Decision (Split)
Round 3
L Israel Adesanya
#1 Middleweight
  UFC 248: Adesanya vs. Romero
Saturday, March 7th 2020
Decision (Unanimous)
Round 5
L Paulo Costa
#12 Middleweight
  UFC 241 - Cormier vs. Miocic 2
Saturday, August 17th 2019
Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
L Robert Whittaker
#1 Middleweight
  UFC 225 - Whittaker vs. Romero 2
Saturday, June 9th 2018
Decision (Split)
Round 5
W Luke Rockhold
#2 Middleweight
  UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold
Saturday, February 10th 2018
KO (Punches)
Round 3
L Robert Whittaker
#5 Middleweight
  UFC 213 - Romero vs. Whittaker
Saturday, July 8th 2017
Decision (Unanimous)
Round 5
W Chris Weidman
#3 Middleweight
  UFC 205 - Alvarez vs. McGregor
Saturday, November 12th 2016
KO (Flying Knee)
Round 3
W Ronaldo Souza
#4 Middleweight
  UFC 194 - Aldo vs. McGregor
Saturday, December 12th 2015
Decision (Split)
Round 3
W Lyoto Machida
#2 Middleweight
  UFC Fight Night - Machida vs. Romero
Saturday, June 27th 2015
KO (Elbows)
Round 3
W Tim Kennedy
#8 Middleweight
  UFC 178: Johnson vs. Cariaso
Saturday, September 27th 2014
TKO
Round 3
W Brad Tavares
#20 Middleweight
  UFC on Fox 11 - Werdum vs. Browne
Saturday, April 19th 2014
Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
W Derek Brunson
#22 Middleweight
  UFC Fight Night 35 - Rockhold vs. Philippou
Wednesday, January 15th 2014
TKO (Punches and Elbows)
Round 3
W Ronny Markes
#20 Middleweight
  UFC Fight Night - Fight for the Troops 3
Wednesday, November 6th 2013
KO (Punches)
Round 3
W Clifford Starks
#122 Middleweight
  UFC on Fox 7 - Henderson vs. Melendez
Saturday, April 20th 2013
KO (Flying Knee and Punches)
Round 1
L Rafael Cavalcante
#15 Light Heavyweight
  Strikeforce - Barnett vs. Kharitonov
Saturday, September 10th 2011
KO (Punches)
Round 2
W Laszlo Eck   FOTN - Fight of the Night 2011
Friday, May 27th 2011
KO (Punch)
Round 1
W Nikita Petrovs   SFC 3 - MMA Fight Night
Saturday, March 5th 2011
TKO (Retirement)
Round 1
W Michal Fijalka
#107 Light Heavyweight
  IFF - The Eternal Struggle
Friday, October 8th 2010
TKO (Retirement)
Round 3
W Sascha Weinpolter
#226 Heavyweight
  FOTN - Fight of the Night 2009
Sunday, December 20th 2009
TKO (Punches)
Round 1