Reported prose from our newsroom. Top-control wrestler
Kamaru Usman carries a 16-3 UFC record built over 19 appearances into the main event. The former welterweight champion enters on a unanimous-decision win over Joaquin Buckley in June 2025 that snapped a three-fight losing run. Before it, Usman dropped a majority decision to Khamzat Chimaev in October 2023 and lost twice to Leon Edwards, by majority decision in March 2023 and by knockout in August 2022. A wrestling-based pressure fighter, Usman built his championship reign on takedowns, top control and a punishing jab. The Buckley result marked a return to the win column after that difficult stretch at 170 pounds. He meets Dricus Du Plessis at middleweight in Oklahoma City.
The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.
| Nickname | The Nigerian Nightmare |
| Nationality | Nigeria |
| Hometown | Auchi, Edo |
| Fighting out of | Kill Cliff FC |
| Height | 6' 0" |
| Reach | 76.0" |
| Stance | Switch |
| Age | 39 |
| Date of birth | May 11, 1987 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 21-4 |
| Finish split | pending |
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against every fighter on record. Tap any i for what a score measures.
The moat — every call we've made on this fighter, timestamped and graded in public. Nobody else can copy this.
FightIQ has picked Kamaru Usman once, 0 correct (0-1 — 0% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | Card | We said | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-18 | Leon Edwards | UFC Fight Night: Mokaev vs Filho | 55.6% | Missed |
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do.
Pro record: 21-4. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).
