Built from Youssef Zalal’s own numbers — style, standout rate and current form. Not reported prose.
5'10" switch top-control wrestler with a 8-3 record, age 29. Standout metric: averages 210s of control time per fight; finishes 50% of wins by submission. Form: last 5: WWWWW · on a 5-fight win streak · 203 days off · Elo 1557.
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 | The Moroccan Devil |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown | Englewood, Colorado |
| Fighting out of | Factory X |
| Height | 5' 10" |
| Reach | 72.0" |
| Stance | Switch |
| Age | 29 |
| Date of birth | Sep 04, 1996 |
| Weight | 145 lbs. |
| Pro record | 18-6-1 |
| 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 Youssef Zalal 5×, 4 correct (4-1 — 80% 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 | Aljamain Sterling | UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs Zalal | 51.9% | Missed |
| 2025-10-04 | Josh Emmett | UFC Fight Night: Santos vs Yoo | 78% | Correct |
| 2025-02-15 | Calvin Kattar | UFC Fight Night: Hill vs Souza | 65.3% | Correct |
| 2024-08-10 | Jarno Errens | UFC Fight Night: Kazama vs Grigoriou | 64% | Correct |
| 2024-03-23 | Billy Quarantillo | UFC Fight Night: Ramos vs Erosa | 55.5% | 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: 18-6-1. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).
