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Paulo Costa
“The Eraser”
Light Heavyweight
Brazil#6 Light HeavyweightUFC🔥 2-fight win streak
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16WINS
4LOSSES
0DRAWS
12KO/TKO
1SUB
3DEC
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Tale of the tape
- Age
- 35 · born Apr 21, 1991 UFC.com
- Height
- 6′1″ 185 cm UFC.com
- Reach
- 72″ 183 cm UFC.com
- Leg reach
- 39.5″ 100 cm UFC.com
- Stance
- Orthodox UFCStats
- Weight class
- Light Heavyweight UFC.com
- UFC ranking
- #6 Light Heavyweight UFC.com
- Fighting style
- Striker UFC.com
- Team / gym
- Team Borracha UFC.com
- Born
- State of Minas Gerais, Brazil UFC.com
- Fights out of / flag
- Brazil UFC.com
- UFC debut
- Mar. 12, 2017 UFC.com
- 1st-round finishes
- 9 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
59%Striking accuracy934 of 1576 landed
0%Takedown accuracy0 of 7 landed
6.15Sig. strikes landedper min
5.96Sig. strikes absorbedper min
49%Striking defense
0.3Takedownsper 15 min
78%Takedown defense
0Submission attemptsper 15 min
0.59Knockdownsper 15 min
12:39Average fight time
Source: UFC.com athlete profile (official) (UFC stats are for UFC bouts only) · checked 2026-10-22
UFC fight history 12 bouts
| Res | Opponent | Method | Rd | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Azamat Murzakanov | KO/TKO | 3 | Apr 11, 2026 | ↗ |
| W | Roman Kopylov | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jul 19, 2025 | ↗ |
| L | Sean Strickland | Decision - Split | 5 | Jun 1, 2024 | ↗ |
| L | Robert Whittaker | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Feb 17, 2024 | ↗ |
| W | Luke Rockhold | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Aug 20, 2022 | ↗ |
| L | Marvin Vettori | Decision - Unanimous | 5 | Oct 23, 2021 | ↗ |
| L | Israel Adesanya | KO/TKO | 2 | Sep 26, 2020 | ↗ |
| W | Yoel Romero | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Aug 17, 2019 | ↗ |
| W | Uriah Hall | KO/TKO | 2 | Jul 7, 2018 | ↗ |
| W | Johny Hendricks | KO/TKO | 2 | Nov 4, 2017 | ↗ |
| W | Oluwale Bamgbose | KO/TKO | 2 | Jun 3, 2017 | ↗ |
| W | Garreth McLellan | KO/TKO | 1 | Mar 11, 2017 | ↗ |
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.