Built from Rafael Dos Anjos’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder
5' 8" southpaw all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 21 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 12 decision. Top 18% of Welterweights: avoids 60% 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 | pending |
| Nationality | Brazil |
| Hometown | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro |
| Fighting out of | pending |
| Height | 5' 8" |
| Reach | 70.0" |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Age | 41 |
| Date of birth | Oct 26, 1984 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 32-17 |
| Finish split | 21 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 12 decision |
Career averages over Rafael Dos Anjos’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 Welterweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
We have not called one of Rafael Dos Anjos’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.
Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Rafael Dos Anjos’s fights, 2 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 (4.97 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: 32-17. In the UFC: 21-15. Rafael Dos Anjos’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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-26 | L | Geoff Neal | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway |
| 2024-03-09 | L | Mateusz Gamrot | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2 |
| 2023-08-12 | L | Vicente Luque | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Dos Anjos |
| 2022-12-03 | W | Bryan Barberena | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland |
| 2022-07-09 | L | Rafael Fiziev | KO/TKO | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Fiziev |
| 2022-03-05 | W | Renato Moicano | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 272: Covington vs. Masvidal |
| 2020-11-14 | W | Paul Felder | Decision (split) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Dos Anjos |
| 2020-01-25 | L | Michael Chiesa | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Dos Santos |
| 2019-07-20 | L | Leon Edwards | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Edwards |
| 2019-05-18 | W | Kevin Lee | Submission | R4 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Lee |
| 2018-11-30 | L | Kamaru Usman | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | The Ultimate Fighter: Heavy Hitters Finale |
| 2018-06-09 | L | Colby Covington | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 |
| 2017-12-16 | W | Robbie Lawler | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Lawler vs. Dos Anjos |
| 2017-09-09 | W | Neil Magny | Submission | R1 | UFC 215: Nunes vs Shevchenko 2 |
| 2017-06-17 | W | Tarec Saffiedine | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Correia |
| 2016-11-05 | L | Tony Ferguson | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Ferguson |
| 2016-07-07 | L | Eddie Alvarez | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Alvarez |
| 2015-12-19 | W | Donald Cerrone | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 |
| 2015-03-14 | W | Anthony Pettis | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 185: Pettis vs Dos Anjos |
| 2014-12-13 | W | Nate Diaz | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Dos Santos vs Miocic |
| 2014-08-23 | W | Benson Henderson | KO/TKO | R1 | — |
| 2014-06-07 | W | Jason High | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs Khabilov |
| 2014-04-19 | L | Khabib Nurmagomedov | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Werdum vs Browne |
| 2013-08-28 | W | Donald Cerrone | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann 2 |
| 2013-05-18 | W | Evan Dunham | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold |
| 2012-11-17 | W | Mark Bocek | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 154: St-Pierre vs Condit |
| 2012-07-11 | W | Anthony Njokuani | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FUEL TV: Munoz vs Weidman |
| 2012-05-15 | W | Kamal Shalorus | Submission | R1 | UFC on FUEL TV: Korean Zombie vs Poirier |
| 2011-11-19 | L | Gleison Tibau | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 139: Shogun vs Henderson |
| 2011-07-02 | W | George Sotiropoulos | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 132: Cruz vs Faber |
| 2010-08-07 | L | Clay Guida | Submission | R3 | UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen |
| 2010-04-10 | W | Terry Etim | Submission | R2 | UFC 112: Invincible |
| 2010-01-11 | W | Kyle Bradley | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz |
| 2009-09-19 | W | Rob Emerson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 103: Franklin vs Belfort |
| 2009-04-01 | L | Tyson Griffin | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann |
| 2008-11-15 | L | Jeremy Stephens | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 91: Couture vs Lesnar |
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.
