Belal Muhammad
22 UFC Fights | 68% Win Rate | 3 Finishes (20%)
Belal Muhammad UFC Record & Pro MMA Record
Belal Muhammad is 15-6 in the UFC across 22 fights (1 no contest), with 2 wins by knockout, 1 by submission and 12 by decision. The full pro MMA record is 24-6 (1 NC), 9-0 of it outside the UFC. Muhammad competes at welterweight as an orthodox outfighter, standing 5'11" with a 72" reach at 38 years old. The last bout was a loss to Gabriel Bonfim by unanimous decision in Jun 2026.
Best attribute: takedown defense (share of opponents' takedown attempts stopped) — 95th percentile among 280 welterweight fighters (90%).
Belal Muhammad's UFC win rate is 68% (15 of 22 fights), and 20% of those wins came by finish. Muhammad averages 2.3 takedowns per fight at 37% accuracy and stops 90% of opponents' takedown attempts.
- Pro MMA Record
- 24-6 (1 NC)
- UFC Record
- 15-6 (1 NC)
- Height
- 5'11"
- Reach
- 72"
- Age
- 38
- Stance
- Orthodox
- Last Fight
- L vs Gabriel Bonfim · Decision - Unanimous · Jun 2026
Pro record from Sherdog (snapshot 2026-07-03) plus every UFC bout since; UFC record from UFCStats.
Belal Muhammad's Last 5 Fights
Muhammad is 2-3 in the last five UFC fights.
- Loss vs Gabriel Bonfim · Decision - Unanimous · R5 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim · Jun 2026
- Loss vs Ian Machado Garry · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker · Nov 2025
- Loss vs Jack Della Maddalena · Decision · R5 5:00 · UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena · May 2025
- Win vs Leon Edwards · Decision · R5 5:00 · UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2 · Jul 2024
- Win vs Gilbert Burns · Decision · R5 5:00 · UFC 288: Sterling vs. Cejudo · May 2023
Striking
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Round-by-Round Output
Sig. Strikes Landed per Round — Belal Muhammad vs Average
Belal Muhammad lands 21.1 strikes in R1 but 22.6 in R3+ — output increases in later rounds.
Belal Muhammad's UFC Fight History
22 UFC fights on record (15-6 (1 NC)), most recent first.
| Result | Opponent | Method | Rd · Time | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L | Gabriel Bonfim | Decision - Unanimous | R5 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim | 2026-06-06 |
| L | Ian Machado Garry | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker | 2025-11-22 |
| L★ | Jack Della Maddalena | Decision | R5 · 5:00 | UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena | 2025-05-10 |
| W★ | Leon Edwards | Decision | R5 · 5:00 | UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2 | 2024-07-27 |
| W | Gilbert Burns | Decision | R5 · 5:00 | UFC 288: Sterling vs. Cejudo | 2023-05-06 |
| W | Sean Brady | KO/TKO | R2 · 4:47 | UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev | 2022-10-22 |
| W | Vicente Luque | Decision | R5 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Muhammad | 2022-04-16 |
| W | Stephen Thompson | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus | 2021-12-18 |
| W | Demian Maia | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 | 2021-06-12 |
| D/NC | Leon Edwards | Other | R2 · 0:18 | UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Muhammad | 2021-03-13 |
| W | Dhiego Lima | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 258: Usman vs. Burns | 2021-02-13 |
| W | Lyman Good | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Volkov | 2020-06-20 |
| W | Takashi Sato | Submission | R3 · 1:55 | UFC 242: Khabib vs. Poirier | 2019-09-07 |
| W | Curtis Millender | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 236: Holloway vs. Poirier 2 | 2019-04-13 |
| L | Geoff Neal | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Dillashaw | 2019-01-19 |
| W | Chance Rencountre | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Rivera vs. Moraes | 2018-06-01 |
| W | Tim Means | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura | 2017-11-18 |
| W | Jordan Mein | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 213: Romero vs. Whittaker | 2017-07-08 |
| W | Randy Brown | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 208: Holm vs. De Randamie | 2017-02-11 |
| L | Vicente Luque | KO/TKO | R1 · 1:19 | UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor | 2016-11-12 |
| W | Augusto Montano | KO/TKO | R3 · 4:19 | UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Johnson | 2016-09-17 |
| L | Alan Jouban | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Alvarez | 2016-07-07 |
How Muhammad Ranks at Welterweight
Percentile among the 280 welterweight fighters in our database (higher is better; absorbed strikes are inverted).
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