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Ricky Simon
Bantamweight
United StatesUFC
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22WINS
8LOSSES
1DRAWS
7KO/TKO
4SUB
11DEC
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Tale of the tape
- Age
- 34 · born Aug 31, 1992 UFC.com
- Height
- 5′6″ 168 cm UFC.com
- Reach
- 69″ 175 cm UFC.com
- Leg reach
- 38″ 97 cm UFC.com
- Stance
- Orthodox UFCStats
- Weight class
- Bantamweight UFC.com
- Fighting style
- Wrestling UFC.com
- Team / gym
- Syndicate MMA UFC.com
- Born
- Pendleton, United States UFC.com
- Fights out of / flag
- United States UFC.com
- UFC debut
- Aug. 8, 2017 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
42%Striking accuracy712 of 1698 landed
5%Takedown accuracy9⚑ of 169⚑ landed
2.99Sig. strikes landedper min
3.91Sig. strikes absorbedper min
61%Striking defense
4.47Takedownsper 15 min
77%Takedown defense
0.25Submission attemptsper 15 min
0.31Knockdownsper 15 min
12:32Average 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 18 bouts
| Res | Opponent | Method | Rd | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L | Montel Jackson | KO/TKO | 2 | Sep 26, 2026 | ↗ |
| D | Adrian Yanez | Decision - Majority | 3 | Mar 28, 2026 | ↗ |
| L | Raoni Barcelos | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Nov 8, 2025 | ↗ |
| W | Cameron Smotherman | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jun 14, 2025 | ↗ |
| W | Javid Basharat | KO/TKO | 1 | Feb 22, 2025 | ↗ |
| L | Vinicius Oliveira | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jun 29, 2024 | ↗ |
| L | Mario Bautista | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jan 13, 2024 | ↗ |
| L | Song Yadong | KO/TKO | 5 | Apr 29, 2023 | ↗ |
| W | Jack Shore | Submission | 2 | Jul 16, 2022 | ↗ |
| W | Raphael Assuncao | KO/TKO | 2 | Dec 18, 2021 | ↗ |
| W | Brian Kelleher | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Feb 13, 2021 | ↗ |
| W | Gaetano Pirrello | Submission | 2 | Jan 20, 2021 | ↗ |
| W | Ray Borg | Decision - Split | 3 | May 13, 2020 | ↗ |
| L | Rob Font | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Dec 7, 2019 | ↗ |
| L | Urijah Faber | KO/TKO | 1 | Jul 13, 2019 | ↗ |
| W | Rani Yahya | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Feb 9, 2019 | ↗ |
| W | Montel Jackson | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Aug 4, 2018 | ↗ |
| W | Merab Dvalishvili | Submission | 3 | Apr 21, 2018 | ↗ |
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.