Diego Ferreira
Lightweight
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20WINS
7LOSSES
0DRAWS
5KO/TKO
7SUB
8DEC
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Tale of the tape
- Age
- 41 · born Jan 18, 1985 UFC.com
- Height
- 5′9″ 175 cm UFC.com
- Reach
- 74″ 188 cm UFC.com
- Leg reach
- 40.5″ 103 cm UFC.com
- Stance
- Orthodox UFCStats
- Weight class
- Lightweight UFC.com
- Fighting style
- MMA UFC.com
- Team / gym
- Team Ferreira BJJ- Pharr, TX UFC.com
- Born
- Terra Nova, Brazil UFC.com
- Fights out of / flag
- Brazil UFC.com
- UFC debut
- Jun. 28, 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
41%Striking accuracy892 of 2187 landed
3%Takedown accuracy1⚑ of 39 landed
4.95Sig. strikes landedper min
3.58Sig. strikes absorbedper min
57%Striking defense
1.08Takedownsper 15 min
58%Takedown defense
0.5Submission attemptsper 15 min
0.25Knockdownsper 15 min
10:00Average 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 19 bouts
| Res | Opponent | Method | Rd | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Billy Quarantillo | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Aug 8, 2026 | ↗ |
| L | Alexander Hernandez | KO/TKO | 2 | Sep 13, 2025 | ↗ |
| L | Grant Dawson | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jan 18, 2025 | ↗ |
| W | Mateusz Rebecki | KO/TKO | 3 | May 11, 2024 | ↗ |
| W | Michael Johnson | KO/TKO | 2 | May 20, 2023 | ↗ |
| L | Mateusz Gamrot | KO/TKO | 2 | Dec 18, 2021 | ↗ |
| L | Gregor Gillespie | KO/TKO | 2 | May 8, 2021 | ↗ |
| L | Beneil Dariush | Decision - Split | 3 | Feb 6, 2021 | ↗ |
| W | Anthony Pettis | Submission | 2 | Jan 18, 2020 | ↗ |
| W | Mairbek Taisumov | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Sep 7, 2019 | ↗ |
| W | Rustam Khabilov | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Feb 23, 2019 | ↗ |
| W | Kyle Nelson | KO/TKO | 2 | Dec 8, 2018 | ↗ |
| W | Jared Gordon | KO/TKO | 1 | Feb 18, 2018 | ↗ |
| W | Olivier Aubin-Mercier | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jan 30, 2016 | ↗ |
| L | Dustin Poirier | KO/TKO | 1 | Apr 4, 2015 | ↗ |
| L | Beneil Dariush | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Oct 25, 2014 | ↗ |
| W | Ramsey Nijem | KO/TKO | 2 | Aug 30, 2014 | ↗ |
| W | Colton Smith | Submission | 1 | Jun 28, 2014 | ↗ |
| L | Alexander Hernandez | KO/TKO | 2 | ↗ |
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.