Built from Rafael Natal’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder
6' 0" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight. 9 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 7 decision.
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 | Sapo |
| Nationality | Brazil |
| Hometown | Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais |
| Fighting out of | Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu |
| Height | 6' 0" |
| Reach | 77.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 43 |
| Date of birth | Dec 25, 1982 |
| Weight | 185 lbs. |
| Pro record | 21-9-1 |
| Finish split | 9 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 7 decision |
Career averages over Rafael Natal’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: 21-9-1. In the UFC: 9-7-1. Rafael Natal’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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-22 | L | Eryk Anders | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Weidman vs. Gastelum |
| 2016-11-12 | L | Tim Boetsch | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor |
| 2016-04-23 | L | Robert Whittaker | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 197: Jones vs Saint Preux |
| 2016-01-30 | W | Kevin Casey | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Bader |
| 2015-05-23 | W | Uriah Hall | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier |
| 2015-01-31 | W | Tom Watson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 183: Silva vs Diaz |
| 2014-09-05 | W | Chris Camozzi | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs Mousasi |
| 2014-05-10 | L | Ed Herman | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Brown vs Silva |
| 2013-11-06 | L | Tim Kennedy | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Fight for the Troops 3 |
| 2013-09-04 | W | Tor Troeng | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs Bader |
| 2013-05-18 | W | Joao Zeferino | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold |
| 2013-01-26 | W | Sean Spencer | Submission | R3 | UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Dodson |
| 2012-07-11 | L | Andrew Craig | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC on FUEL TV: Munoz vs Weidman |
| 2012-02-04 | W | Michael Kuiper | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 143: Diaz vs Condit |
| 2011-08-06 | W | Paul Bradley | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 133: Evans vs Ortiz 2 |
| 2010-12-11 | D | Jesse Bongfeldt | Decision (majority) | R3 | UFC 124: St-Pierre vs Koscheck 2 |
| 2010-09-15 | L | Rich Attonito | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Marquardt vs Palhares |
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.