Built from Lyoto Machida’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher
6' 1" southpaw knockout puncher campaigning at Middleweight. 16 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 8 decision. Top 11% of Middleweights: absorbs only 1.57 significant strikes a minute and avoids 61% of the strikes thrown at him.
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 Dragon |
| Nationality | Brazil |
| Hometown | Belem, Para |
| Fighting out of | pending |
| Height | 6' 1" |
| Reach | 74.0" |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Age | 48 |
| Date of birth | May 30, 1978 |
| Weight | 185 lbs. |
| Pro record | 24-8 |
| Finish split | 16 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 8 decision |
Career averages over Lyoto Machida’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
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. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.
Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
Pro record: 24-8. In the UFC: 16-8. Lyoto Machida’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.
Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-12 | W | Vitor Belfort | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington |
| 2018-02-03 | W | Eryk Anders | Decision (split) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders |
| 2017-10-28 | L | Derek Brunson | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Machida |
| 2015-06-27 | L | Yoel Romero | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Romero |
| 2015-04-18 | L | Luke Rockhold | Submission | R2 | UFC on FOX: Machida vs Rockhold |
| 2014-12-20 | W | CB Dollaway | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Dollaway |
| 2014-07-05 | L | Chris Weidman | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 175: Weidman vs Machida |
| 2014-02-15 | W | Gegard Mousasi | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Mousasi |
| 2013-10-26 | W | Mark Munoz | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Munoz |
| 2013-08-03 | L | Phil Davis | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 163: Aldo vs Jung |
| 2013-02-23 | W | Dan Henderson | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 157: Rousey vs Carmouche |
| 2012-08-04 | W | Ryan Bader | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC on FOX: Shogun vs Vera |
| 2011-12-10 | L | Jon Jones | Submission | R2 | UFC 140: Jones vs Machida |
| 2011-04-30 | W | Randy Couture | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 129: St-Pierre vs Shields |
| 2010-11-20 | L | Quinton Jackson | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 123: Rampage vs Machida |
| 2010-05-08 | L | Mauricio Rua | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 113: Machida vs Shogun 2 |
| 2009-10-24 | W | Mauricio Rua | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 104: Machida vs Shogun |
| 2009-05-23 | W | Rashad Evans | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 98: Evans vs Machida |
| 2009-01-31 | W | Thiago Silva | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 94: St-Pierre vs Penn 2 |
| 2008-05-24 | W | Tito Ortiz | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 84: Ill Will |
| 2007-12-29 | W | Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou | Submission | R2 | UFC 79: Nemesis |
| 2007-09-22 | W | Kazuhiro Nakamura | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 76: Knockout |
| 2007-04-21 | W | David Heath | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 70: Nations Collide |
| 2007-02-03 | W | Sam Hoger | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 67: All or Nothing |
Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.