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Michael Chiesa
“Maverick”
Welterweight
United StatesUFCRetired🔥 4-fight win streak
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20WINS
7LOSSES
0DRAWS
0KO/TKO
13SUB
7DEC
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Tale of the tape
- Age
- 38 · born Dec 7, 1987 UFC.com
- Height
- 6′1″ 185 cm UFC.com
- Reach
- 75.5″ 192 cm UFC.com
- Leg reach
- 43″ 109 cm UFC.com
- Stance
- Southpaw UFCStats
- Weight class
- Welterweight UFC.com
- Fighting style
- Wrestling UFC.com
- Team / gym
- Sik-Jitsu Spokane, WA UFC.com
- Born
- Aurora, United States UFC.com
- Fights out of / flag
- United States UFC.com
- UFC debut
- Jun. 2, 2012 UFC.com
- 1st-round finishes
- 7 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 accuracy409 of 1006 landed
19%Takedown accuracy17⚑ of 88 landed
2.02Sig. strikes landedper min
1.73Sig. strikes absorbedper min
58%Striking defense
3.11Takedownsper 15 min
66%Takedown defense
1.04Submission attemptsper 15 min
0.07Knockdownsper 15 min
09:13Average 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 22 bouts
| Res | Opponent | Method | Rd | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Niko Price | Submission | 1 | Mar 28, 2026 | ↗ |
| W | Court McGee | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jun 14, 2025 | ↗ |
| W | Max Griffin | Submission | 3 | Dec 7, 2024 | ↗ |
| W | Tony Ferguson | Submission | 1 | Aug 3, 2024 | ↗ |
| L | Kevin Holland | Submission | 1 | Jul 29, 2023 | ↗ |
| L | Sean Brady | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Nov 20, 2021 | ↗ |
| L | Vicente Luque | Submission | 1 | Aug 7, 2021 | ↗ |
| W | Neil Magny | Decision - Unanimous | 5 | Jan 20, 2021 | ↗ |
| W | Rafael Dos Anjos | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jan 25, 2020 | ↗ |
| W | Diego Sanchez | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jul 6, 2019 | ↗ |
| W | Carlos Condit | Submission | 2 | Dec 29, 2018 | ↗ |
| L | Anthony Pettis | Submission | 2 | Jul 7, 2018 | ↗ |
| L | Kevin Lee | Submission | 1 | Jun 25, 2017 | ↗ |
| W | Beneil Dariush | Submission | 2 | Apr 16, 2016 | ↗ |
| W | Jim Miller | Submission | 2 | Dec 10, 2015 | ↗ |
| W | Mitch Clarke | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Apr 4, 2015 | ↗ |
| L | Joe Lauzon | TKO - Doctor's Stoppage | 2 | Sep 5, 2014 | ↗ |
| W | Francisco Trinaldo | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | May 24, 2014 | ↗ |
| W | Colton Smith | Submission | 2 | Nov 6, 2013 | ↗ |
| L | Jorge Masvidal | Submission | 2 | Jul 27, 2013 | ↗ |
| W | Anton Kuivanen | Submission | 2 | Feb 23, 2013 | ↗ |
| W | Al Iaquinta | Submission | 1 | Jun 1, 2012 | ↗ |
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.