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Tai Tuivasa

“Bam Bam”

Heavyweight

Australia8-fight losing streak

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15WINS

11LOSSES

0DRAWS

14KO/TKO

0SUB

1DEC

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

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Tale of the tape

Age: 33 · born Mar 16, 1993 UFC.com
Height: 6′2″ 188 cm UFC.com
Reach: 75″ 190 cm UFC.com
Leg reach: 39.5″ 100 cm UFC.com
Stance: Southpaw UFCStats
Weight class: Heavyweight UFC.com
Team / gym: American Top Team UFC.com
Born: Kingswood, Australia UFC.com
Fights out of / flag: Australia UFC.com
UFC debut: Nov. 18, 2017 UFC.com
1st-round finishes: 12 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

48%Striking accuracy522 of 1078 landed

0%Takedown accuracy0 of 9 landed

3.25Sig. strikes landedper min

4.36Sig. strikes absorbedper min

44%Striking defense

0.09Takedownsper 15 min

56%Takedown defense

0Submission attemptsper 15 min

0.75Knockdownsper 15 min

08:27Average fight time

Sig. strikes by position

Standing359 69%

Clinch129 25%

Ground34 7%

Sig. strikes by target

Head307 59%

Body95 18%

Leg120 23%

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	Time	Event	Date
L	Robelis Despaigne	Decision - Split	3	5:00	UFC 331: Van vs. Pantoja 2	Sep 19, 2026	↗
L	Louie Sutherland	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs. Prates	May 2, 2026	↗
L	Tallison Teixeira	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC 325: Volkanovski vs. Lopes 2	Jan 31, 2026	↗
L	Jairzinho Rozenstruik	Decision - Split	3	5:00	UFC 305: Du Plessis vs. Adesanya	Aug 17, 2024	↗
L	Marcin Tybura	Submission	1	4:08	UFC Fight Night: Tuivasa vs. Tybura	Mar 16, 2024	↗
L	Alexander Volkov	Submission	2	4:37	UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland	Sep 9, 2023	↗
L	Sergei Pavlovich	KO/TKO	1	0:54	UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland	Dec 3, 2022	↗
L	Ciryl Gane	KO/TKO	3	4:23	UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa	Sep 3, 2022	↗
W	Derrick Lewis	KO/TKO	2	1:40	UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2	Feb 12, 2022	↗
W	Augusto Sakai	KO/TKO	2	0:26	UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier	Dec 11, 2021	↗
W	Greg Hardy	KO/TKO	1	1:07	UFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3	Jul 10, 2021	↗
W	Harry Hunsucker	KO/TKO	1	0:49	UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Holland	Mar 20, 2021	↗
W	Stefan Struve	KO/TKO	1	4:59	UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje	Oct 24, 2020	↗
L	Serghei Spivac	Submission	2	3:14	UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya	Oct 5, 2019	↗
L	Blagoy Ivanov	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes	Jun 8, 2019	↗
L	Junior Dos Santos	KO/TKO	2	2:30	UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa	Dec 1, 2018	↗
W	Andrei Arlovski	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2	Jun 9, 2018	↗
W	Cyril Asker	KO/TKO	1	2:18	UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold	Feb 10, 2018	↗
W	Rashad Coulter	KO/TKO	1	4:35	UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura	Nov 18, 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.