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Aljamain Sterling
“Funk Master”
Featherweight
United States#4 FeatherweightUFC🔥 2-fight win streak
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Next: vs Kevin Vallejos · UFC Fight Night · Main card Sat, Nov 21 · 1:00 PM ET
26WINS
5LOSSES
0DRAWS
3KO/TKO
8SUB
15DEC
Upcoming bout
Main card Sat, Nov 21 · 1:00 PM ET · Featherweight · ABHA Arena, Doha, Qatar
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Tale of the tape
- Age
- 37 · born Jul 31, 1989 UFC.com
- Height
- 5′7″ 170 cm UFC.com
- Reach
- 71″ 180 cm UFC.com
- Leg reach
- 39″ 99 cm UFC.com
- Stance
- Orthodox UFCStats
- Weight class
- Featherweight UFC.com
- UFC ranking
- #4 Featherweight UFC.com
- Fighting style
- Kickboxer UFC.com
- Team / gym
- Serra-Longo - Long Island, NY UFC.com
- Born
- United States UFC.com
- Fights out of / flag
- United States UFC.com
- UFC debut
- Feb. 22, 2014 UFC.com
- 1st-round finishes
- 4 UFC.com
UFC.com: UFC.com athlete profile (official) · checked 2026-10-22 · UFCStats: UFCStats.com fighter page (data via the public ufcstats.com mirror, snapshot 2026-10-18)
UFC career stats
53%Striking accuracy1407 of 2675 landed
12%Takedown accuracy21⚑ of 174 landed
4.26Sig. strikes landedper min
2.15Sig. strikes absorbedper min
59%Striking defense
2.54Takedownsper 15 min
45%Takedown defense
0.64Submission attemptsper 15 min
0Knockdownsper 15 min
14:23Average fight time
⚑ = UFC.com and UFCStats disagree on this number. We show the official UFC.com figure and have flagged it for review.
Source: UFC.com athlete profile (official) (UFC stats are for UFC bouts only) · checked 2026-10-22
UFC fight history 23 bouts
| Res | Opponent | Method | Rd | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Youssef Zalal | Decision - Unanimous | 5 | Apr 25, 2026 | ↗ |
| W | Brian Ortega | Decision - Unanimous | 5 | Aug 23, 2025 | ↗ |
| L | Movsar Evloev | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Dec 7, 2024 | ↗ |
| W | Calvin Kattar | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Apr 13, 2024 | ↗ |
| L | Sean O'Malley | KO/TKO | 2 | Aug 19, 2023 | ↗ |
| W | Henry Cejudo | Decision - Split | 5 | May 6, 2023 | ↗ |
| W | TJ Dillashaw | KO/TKO | 2 | Oct 22, 2022 | ↗ |
| W | Petr Yan | Decision - Split | 5 | Apr 9, 2022 | ↗ |
| W | Petr Yan | DQ | 4 | Mar 6, 2021 | ↗ |
| W | Cory Sandhagen | Submission | 1 | Jun 6, 2020 | ↗ |
| W | Pedro Munhoz | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jun 8, 2019 | ↗ |
| W | Jimmie Rivera | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Feb 17, 2019 | ↗ |
| W | Cody Stamann | Submission | 2 | Sep 8, 2018 | ↗ |
| W | Brett Johns | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Apr 21, 2018 | ↗ |
| L | Marlon Moraes | KO/TKO | 1 | Dec 9, 2017 | ↗ |
| W | Renan Barao | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jul 29, 2017 | ↗ |
| W | Augusto Mendes | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Apr 15, 2017 | ↗ |
| L | Raphael Assuncao | Decision - Split | 3 | Jan 28, 2017 | ↗ |
| L | Bryan Caraway | Decision - Split | 3 | May 29, 2016 | ↗ |
| W | Johnny Eduardo | Submission | 2 | Dec 10, 2015 | ↗ |
| W | Takeya Mizugaki | Submission | 3 | Apr 18, 2015 | ↗ |
| W | Hugo Viana | KO/TKO | 3 | Jul 16, 2014 | ↗ |
| W | Cody Gibson | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Feb 22, 2014 | ↗ |
UFC bouts only. Source: UFCStats.com bout pages (via the public mirror, snapshot 2026-10-18) · checked 2026-10-22. Bouts outside the UFC aren’t listed because we only republish history we can trace to an official source.