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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 | 9-0 |
| 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 Navajo Stirling 6×, 6 correct (6-0 — 100% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | Card | We said | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-01 | Jan Blachowicz | Medic vs Rodriguez | 74.2% | Correct |
| 2026-06-21 | Ion Cutelaba | Kape vs Horiguchi | 71.5% | Correct |
| 2026-03-28 | Bruno Lopes | UFC Fight Night: Tybura vs Fortune | 74.8% | Correct |
| 2025-09-27 | Rodolfo Bellato | UFC Fight Night: Montague vs Carolina | 63.3% | Correct |
| 2025-05-10 | Ivan Erslan | UFC Fight Night: Stirling vs Erslan | 74.2% | Correct |
| 2024-12-14 | Tuco Tokkos | UFC Fight Night: Knutsson vs Rodriguez | 58.9% | Correct |
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: 9-0. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).
