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Yair Rodriguez
“El Pantera”
Featherweight#6 FeatherweightUFC
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21WINS
5LOSSES
0DRAWS
8KO/TKO
5SUB
8DEC
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Tale of the tape
- Age
- 34 · born Oct 6, 1992 UFC.com
- Height
- 5′11″ 180 cm UFC.com
- Reach
- 71″ 180 cm UFC.com
- Leg reach
- 41.5″ 105 cm UFC.com
- Stance
- Orthodox UFCStats
- Weight class
- Featherweight UFC.com
- UFC ranking
- #6 Featherweight UFC.com
- Fighting style
- Freestyle UFC.com
- Team / gym
- Izzystyle wrestling & VFS Chicago UFC.com
- Born
- Hidalgo Del Parral, Mexico UFC.com
- UFC debut
- Nov. 15, 2014 UFC.com
- 1st-round finishes
- 6 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
47%Striking accuracy984 of 2096 landed
24%Takedown accuracy8 of 34 landed
4.65Sig. strikes landedper min
3.78Sig. strikes absorbedper min
53%Striking defense
0.71Takedownsper 15 min
59%Takedown defense
0.64Submission attemptsper 15 min
0.35Knockdownsper 15 min
13:14Average fight time
Source: UFC.com athlete profile (official) (UFC stats are for UFC bouts only) · checked 2026-10-22
UFC fight history 16 bouts
| Res | Opponent | Method | Rd | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Patricio Freire | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Apr 12, 2025 | ↗ |
| L | Brian Ortega | Submission | 3 | Feb 24, 2024 | ↗ |
| L | Alexander Volkanovski | KO/TKO | 3 | Jul 8, 2023 | ↗ |
| W | Josh Emmett | Submission | 2 | Feb 11, 2023 | ↗ |
| W | Brian Ortega | KO/TKO | 1 | Jul 16, 2022 | ↗ |
| L | Max Holloway | Decision - Unanimous | 5 | Nov 13, 2021 | ↗ |
| W | Jeremy Stephens | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Oct 18, 2019 | ↗ |
| NC | Jeremy Stephens | Could Not Continue | 1 | Sep 21, 2019 | ↗ |
| W | Chan Sung Jung | KO/TKO | 5 | Nov 10, 2018 | ↗ |
| L | Frankie Edgar | TKO - Doctor's Stoppage | 2 | May 13, 2017 | ↗ |
| W | BJ Penn | KO/TKO | 2 | Jan 15, 2017 | ↗ |
| W | Alex Caceres | Decision - Split | 5 | Aug 6, 2016 | ↗ |
| W | Andre Fili | KO/TKO | 2 | Apr 23, 2016 | ↗ |
| W | Dan Hooker | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Oct 3, 2015 | ↗ |
| W | Charles Rosa | Decision - Split | 3 | Jun 13, 2015 | ↗ |
| W | Leonardo Morales | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Nov 15, 2014 | ↗ |
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.