Youssef Zalal
“The Moroccan Devil”
Featherweight
Morocco#8 FeatherweightUFC
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18WINS
6LOSSES
1DRAWS
4KO/TKO
10SUB
4DEC
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Tale of the tape
- Age
- 30 · born Sep 4, 1996 UFC.com
- Height
- 5′10″ 178 cm UFC.com
- Reach
- 72″ 183 cm UFC.com
- Leg reach
- 39″ 99 cm UFC.com
- Stance
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- Weight class
- Featherweight UFC.com
- UFC ranking
- #8 Featherweight UFC.com
- Fighting style
- Freestyle UFC.com
- Team / gym
- Factory X UFC.com
- Born
- Casablanca, Morocco UFC.com
- Fights out of / flag
- Morocco UFC.com
- UFC debut
- Feb. 8, 2020 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
51%Striking accuracy454 of 892 landed
10%Takedown accuracy6⚑ of 63 landed
2.78Sig. strikes landedper min
1.79Sig. strikes absorbedper min
65%Striking defense
1.84Takedownsper 15 min
56%Takedown defense
1.29Submission attemptsper 15 min
0.18Knockdownsper 15 min
12:34Average 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 13 bouts
| Res | Opponent | Method | Rd | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L | Aljamain Sterling | Decision - Unanimous | 5 | Apr 25, 2026 | ↗ |
| W | Josh Emmett | Submission | 1 | Oct 4, 2025 | ↗ |
| W | Calvin Kattar | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Feb 15, 2025 | ↗ |
| W | Jack Shore | Submission | 2 | Nov 2, 2024 | ↗ |
| W | Jarno Errens | Submission | 1 | Aug 10, 2024 | ↗ |
| W | Billy Quarantillo | Submission | 2 | Mar 23, 2024 | ↗ |
| D | Da'Mon Blackshear | Decision - Majority | 3 | Aug 13, 2022 | ↗ |
| L | Sean Woodson | Decision - Split | 3 | Jun 5, 2021 | ↗ |
| L | SeungWoo Choi | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Feb 6, 2021 | ↗ |
| L | Ilia Topuria | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Oct 10, 2020 | ↗ |
| W | Peter Barrett | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Aug 8, 2020 | ↗ |
| W | Jordan Griffin | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jun 27, 2020 | ↗ |
| W | Austin Lingo | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Feb 8, 2020 | ↗ |
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.