Built from Rafa Garcia’s own numbers — style, standout rate and current form. Not reported prose.
5'7" orthodox wrestle-grinder with a 6-4 record, age 31. Standout metric: defends 76% of takedowns; averages 184s of control time per fight. Form: last 5: WWLWW · on a 2-fight win streak · 224 days off · Elo 1532.
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 | Gifted |
| Nationality | Mexico |
| Hometown | Mexicali, Baja California |
| Fighting out of | pending |
| Height | 5' 7" |
| Reach | 70.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 32 |
| Date of birth | Aug 05, 1994 |
| Weight | 155 lbs. |
| Pro record | 19-4 |
| 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 Rafa Garcia 3×, 3 correct (3-0 — 100% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | Card | We said | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-25 | Alexander Hernandez | UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs Zalal | 50.5% | Correct |
| 2025-03-29 | Vinc Pichel | UFC Fight Night: Garcia vs Pichel | 74.3% | Correct |
| 2023-04-15 | Clay Guida | UFC Fight Night: Phillips vs Bolanos | 69.6% | 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: 19-4. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).
