Built from Thiago Alves’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher
5' 9" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Welterweight. 15 UFC wins — 8 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 6 decision. Top 13% of Welterweights: avoids 62% of the strikes thrown at him and completes 60% of his takedown attempts.
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 | Pitbull |
| Nationality | Brazil |
| Hometown | Fortaleza, Ceara |
| Fighting out of | American Top Team |
| Height | 5' 9" |
| Reach | 70.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 42 |
| Date of birth | Oct 03, 1983 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 23-15 |
| Finish split | 15 UFC wins — 8 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 6 decision |
Career averages over Thiago Alves’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.
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: 23-15. In the UFC: 15-12. Thiago Alves’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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-07 | L | Tim Means | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Rozenstruik |
| 2019-05-11 | L | Laureano Staropoli | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 237: Namajunas vs. Andrade |
| 2019-02-02 | W | Max Griffin | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Assuncao vs. Moraes 2 |
| 2018-09-15 | L | Aleksei Kunchenko | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Oleinik |
| 2018-02-18 | L | Curtis Millender | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Medeiros |
| 2017-04-08 | W | Patrick Cote | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2 |
| 2016-11-12 | L | Jim Miller | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor |
| 2015-05-30 | L | Carlos Condit | TKO (doctor) | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Alves |
| 2015-01-31 | W | Jordan Mein | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 183: Silva vs Diaz |
| 2014-04-19 | W | Seth Baczynski | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Werdum vs Browne |
| 2012-03-02 | L | Martin Kampmann | Submission | R3 | UFC on FX: Alves vs Kampmann |
| 2011-11-05 | W | Papy Abedi | Submission | R1 | UFC 138: Leben vs Munoz |
| 2011-05-28 | L | Rick Story | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 130: Rampage vs Hamill |
| 2010-12-11 | W | John Howard | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 124: St-Pierre vs Koscheck 2 |
| 2010-08-07 | L | Jon Fitch | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen |
| 2009-07-11 | L | Georges St-Pierre | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 100 |
| 2008-10-25 | W | Josh Koscheck | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 90: Silva vs Cote |
| 2008-06-07 | W | Matt Hughes | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 85: Bedlam |
| 2008-04-02 | W | Karo Parisyan | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Florian vs Lauzon |
| 2007-11-17 | W | Chris Lytle | TKO (doctor) | R2 | UFC 78: Validation |
| 2007-09-19 | W | Kuniyoshi Hironaka | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Thomas vs Florian |
| 2006-12-30 | W | Tony DeSouza | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 66: Liddell vs Ortiz 2 |
| 2006-10-10 | W | John Alessio | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | Ortiz vs Shamrock 3: The Final Chapter |
| 2006-06-28 | L | Jon Fitch | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night 5 |
| 2006-04-15 | W | Derrick Noble | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 59: Reality Check |
| 2005-11-19 | W | Ansar Chalangov | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 56: Full Force |
| 2005-10-03 | L | Spencer Fisher | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night 2 |
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.