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Benoît Saint Denis

“God of War”

Lightweight

France#6 Lightweight

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17WINS

4LOSSES

0DRAWS

6KO/TKO

11SUB

0DEC

Pro MMA recordSource: UFC.com athlete profile (official)Checked 2026-10-22

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Tale of the tape

Age: 30 · born Dec 18, 1995 UFC.com
Height: 5′11″ 180 cm UFC.com
Reach: 73″ 185 cm UFC.com
Leg reach: 40″ 102 cm UFC.com
Stance: Southpaw UFCStats
Weight class: Lightweight UFC.com
UFC ranking: #6 Lightweight UFC.com
Fighting style: MMA UFC.com
Team / gym: Venum Training Camp Paris UFC.com
Born: Nîmes, France UFC.com
Fights out of / flag: France UFC.com
UFC debut: Oct. 30, 2021 UFC.com
1st-round finishes: 8 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

58%Striking accuracy484 of 828 landed

3%Takedown accuracy2⚑ of 68 landed

5.58Sig. strikes landedper min

4.09Sig. strikes absorbedper min

42%Striking defense

4.15Takedownsper 15 min

72%Takedown defense

1.73Submission attemptsper 15 min

0.86Knockdownsper 15 min

06:41Average fight time

Sig. strikes by position

Standing245 51%

Clinch87 18%

Ground152 31%

Sig. strikes by target

Head304 63%

Body128 26%

Leg52 11%

⚑ = 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 13 bouts

Res	Opponent	Method	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	Paddy Pimblett	Submission	1	0:52	UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2	Jul 11, 2026	↗
W	Dan Hooker	KO/TKO	2	4:45	UFC 325: Volkanovski vs. Lopes 2	Jan 31, 2026	↗
W	Beneil Dariush	KO/TKO	1	0:16	UFC 322: Della Maddalena vs. Makhachev	Nov 15, 2025	↗
W	Mauricio Ruffy	Submission	2	2:56	UFC Fight Night: Imavov vs. Borralho	Sep 6, 2025	↗
W	Kyle Prepolec	Submission	2	2:35	UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena	May 10, 2025	↗
L	Renato Moicano	TKO - Doctor's Stoppage	2	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Saint Denis	Sep 28, 2024	↗
L	Dustin Poirier	KO/TKO	2	2:32	UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2	Mar 9, 2024	↗
W	Matt Frevola	KO/TKO	1	1:31	UFC 295: Prochazka vs. Pereira	Nov 11, 2023	↗
W	Thiago Moises	KO/TKO	2	4:44	UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Spivac	Sep 2, 2023	↗
W	Ismael Bonfim	Submission	1	4:48	UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Magomedov	Jul 1, 2023	↗
W	Gabriel Miranda	KO/TKO	2	0:16	UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa	Sep 3, 2022	↗
W	Niklas Stolze	Submission	2	1:32	UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Rozenstruik	Jun 4, 2022	↗
L	Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira	Oct 30, 2021	↗

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.