Reported prose from our newsroom. Grappling-led all-rounder
Tabatha Ricci meets Fatima Kline on a 7-4 UFC record across 11 appearances. The Brazilian strawweight is coming off a unanimous-decision loss to Virna Jandiroba in April, a result that stalled the momentum from her July 2025 knockout of Amanda Ribas. Ricci's recent form has run hot and cold: the Ribas win followed a unanimous-decision loss to Yan Xiaonan in November 2024, and before that she beat Angela Hill by unanimous decision in August 2024. A judoka and grappler by background, Ricci pairs takedowns with a steady boxing base and rarely gets finished. The matchup with the surging Kline tests whether her experience can slow a younger opponent. She fights on the Oklahoma City card.
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 | Baby Shark |
| Nationality | Brazil |
| Hometown | Aracatuba, Sao Paulo |
| Fighting out of | Brazilian Thai |
| Height | 5' 1" |
| Reach | 61.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 31 |
| Date of birth | Feb 21, 1995 |
| Weight | 115 lbs. |
| Pro record | 12-5 |
| Finish split | 7 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 5 decision |
Career averages over Tabatha Ricci’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on her 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 Women's Strawweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Every fight of Tabatha Ricci’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 2 of Tabatha Ricci’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–1 — 50% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 | Fatima Kline | Fatima Kline (against Ricci) | 66.3% | Correct |
| 2026-04-04 | Virna Jandiroba | Tabatha Ricci | 50.3% | Missed |
Across our full back-tested history we called 7 of Tabatha Ricci’s fights, 5 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 her. 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 (4.04 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: 12-5. In the UFC: 7-5. Tabatha Ricci’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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 | L | Fatima Kline | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Du Plessis vs. Usman |
| 2026-04-04 | L | Virna Jandiroba | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Duncan |
| 2025-07-26 | W | Amanda Ribas | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. De Ridder |
| 2024-11-23 | L | Yan Xiaonan | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Figueiredo |
| 2024-08-24 | W | Angela Hill | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Borralho |
| 2024-05-11 | W | Tecia Pennington | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Nascimento |
| 2023-11-11 | L | Loopy Godinez | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 295: Prochazka vs. Pereira |
| 2023-06-24 | W | Gillian Robertson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Topuria |
| 2023-03-04 | W | Jessica Penne | Submission | R2 | UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane |
| 2022-05-21 | W | Polyana Viana | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Vieira |
| 2021-10-23 | W | Maria Oliveira | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Costa vs. Vettori |
| 2021-06-05 | L | Manon Fiorot | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Sakai |
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.
