Bryan Barberena
19 UFC Fights | 47% Win Rate | 5 Finishes (56%)
Bryan Barberena UFC Record & Pro MMA Record
Bryan Barberena is 9-10 in the UFC across 19 fights, with 4 wins by knockout, 1 by submission and 4 by decision. The full pro MMA record is 18-12, 9-2 of it outside the UFC. Barberena competes at welterweight as a southpaw outfighter, standing 6'0" with a 72" reach at 37 years old. The last bout was a loss to Gerald Meerschaert by submission in Mar 2024.
Best attribute: striking volume (significant strikes landed per minute) — 93rd percentile among 280 welterweight fighters (5.3 sig. strikes/min).
Bryan Barberena's UFC win rate is 47% (9 of 19 fights), and 56% of those wins came by finish. Barberena averages 0.1 takedowns per fight at 22% accuracy and stops 50% of opponents' takedown attempts.
- Pro MMA Record
- 18-12
- UFC Record
- 9-10
- Height
- 6'0"
- Reach
- 72"
- Age
- 37
- Stance
- Southpaw
- Last Fight
- L vs Gerald Meerschaert · Submission · Mar 2024
Pro record from Sherdog (snapshot 2026-07-03) plus every UFC bout since; UFC record from UFCStats.
Bryan Barberena's Last 5 Fights
Barberena is 1-4 in the last five UFC fights.
- Loss vs Gerald Meerschaert · Submission · R2 4:23 · UFC Fight Night: Tuivasa vs. Tybura · Mar 2024
- Loss vs Makhmud Muradov · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Aspinall vs. Tybura · Jul 2023
- Loss vs Gunnar Nelson · Submission · R1 4:51 · UFC 286: Edwards vs. Usman 3 · Mar 2023
- Loss vs Rafael Dos Anjos · Submission · R2 3:20 · UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland · Dec 2022
- Win vs Robbie Lawler · KO/TKO · R2 4:47 · UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier · Jul 2022
Striking
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Round-by-Round Output
Sig. Strikes Landed per Round — Bryan Barberena vs Average
Bryan Barberena lands 17.3 strikes in R1 but 34.5 in R3+ — output increases in later rounds.
Bryan Barberena's UFC Fight History
19 UFC fights on record (9-10), most recent first.
| Result | Opponent | Method | Rd · Time | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L | Gerald Meerschaert | Submission | R2 · 4:23 | UFC Fight Night: Tuivasa vs. Tybura | 2024-03-16 |
| L | Makhmud Muradov | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Aspinall vs. Tybura | 2023-07-22 |
| L | Gunnar Nelson | Submission | R1 · 4:51 | UFC 286: Edwards vs. Usman 3 | 2023-03-18 |
| L | Rafael Dos Anjos | Submission | R2 · 3:20 | UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland | 2022-12-03 |
| W | Robbie Lawler | KO/TKO | R2 · 4:47 | UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier | 2022-07-02 |
| W | Matt Brown | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus | 2022-03-26 |
| W | Darian Weeks | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Aldo | 2021-12-04 |
| L | Jason Witt | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Hall vs. Strickland | 2021-07-31 |
| W | Anthony Ivy | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Waterson vs. Hill | 2020-09-12 |
| L | Randy Brown | KO/TKO | R3 · 2:54 | UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. The Korean Zombie | 2019-06-22 |
| L | Vicente Luque | KO/TKO | R3 · 4:54 | UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Velasquez | 2019-02-17 |
| W | Jake Ellenberger | KO/TKO | R1 · 2:26 | UFC Fight Night: Gaethje vs. Vick | 2018-08-25 |
| L | Leon Edwards | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Struve | 2017-09-02 |
| W | Joe Proctor | KO/TKO | R1 · 3:30 | UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov | 2017-04-22 |
| L | Colby Covington | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC on FOX: VanZant vs. Waterson | 2016-12-17 |
| W | Warlley Alves | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 198: Werdum vs Miocic | 2016-05-14 |
| W | Sage Northcutt | Submission | R2 · 3:06 | UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Bader | 2016-01-30 |
| L | Chad Laprise | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 186: Johnson vs Horiguchi | 2015-04-25 |
| W | Joe Ellenberger | KO/TKO | R3 · 3:24 | UFC on FOX: Dos Santos vs Miocic | 2014-12-13 |
How Barberena Ranks at Welterweight
Percentile among the 280 welterweight fighters in our database (higher is better; absorbed strikes are inverted).
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