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Navajo Stirling is 5-0 in the UFC. He has not lost in the promotion since his debut on Dec. 14, 2024, and every one of his five fights has been a light heavyweight bout.
He won the first three by unanimous decision, beating Tuco Tokkos in December 2024, Ivan Erslan in May 2025 and Rodolfo Bellato in September 2025.
His last two ended early. He stopped Bruno Lopes in the second round in March 2026, then stopped Ion Cutelaba in the second round in June 2026.
Stirling has fought five times in roughly 18 months, the most active stretch of any fighter in this group.
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 | pending |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Hometown | Auckland |
| Fighting out of | City Kickboxing |
| Height | 6' 4" |
| Reach | 79.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 28 |
| Date of birth | Nov 07, 1997 |
| Weight | 205 lbs. |
| Pro record | 11-0 |
| Finish split | 6 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 3 decision |
Career averages over Navajo Stirling’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 Light Heavyweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Every fight of Navajo Stirling’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.
FightIQ has called 3 of Navajo Stirling’s fights in 2026: 3 correct (3–0 — 100% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | We called it for | Confidence | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-01 | Jan Blachowicz | Navajo Stirling | 74.1% | Correct |
| 2026-06-21 | Ion Cutelaba | Navajo Stirling | 71.5% | Correct |
| 2026-03-28 | Bruno Lopes | Navajo Stirling | 74.8% | Correct |
Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Navajo Stirling’s fights, 3 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.
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 (5.96 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: 11-0. In the UFC: 6-0. Navajo Stirling’s last 6 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-01 | W | Jan Blachowicz | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Medic vs. Rodriguez |
| 2026-06-20 | W | Ion Cutelaba | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Horiguchi |
| 2026-03-28 | W | Bruno Lopes | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Pyfer |
| 2025-09-27 | W | Rodolfo Bellato | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Ulberg vs. Reyes |
| 2025-05-10 | W | Ivan Erslan | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena |
| 2024-12-14 | W | Tuco Tokkos | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Buckley |
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.
