Gabriel Benitez
15 UFC Fights | 47% Win Rate | 5 Finishes (71%)
Gabriel Benitez UFC Record & Pro MMA Record
Gabriel Benitez is 7-8 in the UFC across 15 fights, with 3 wins by knockout, 2 by submission and 2 by decision. The full pro MMA record is 23-12, 16-4 of it outside the UFC. Benitez competes at featherweight as a southpaw outfighter, standing 5'8" with a 71" reach at 38 years old. The last bout was a loss to Maheshate by decision in Apr 2024.
Best attribute: striking volume (significant strikes landed per minute) — 89th percentile among 191 featherweight fighters (5.3 sig. strikes/min).
Gabriel Benitez's UFC win rate is 47% (7 of 15 fights), and 71% of those wins came by finish. Benitez averages 0.1 takedowns per fight at 50% accuracy and stops 56% of opponents' takedown attempts.
- Pro MMA Record
- 23-12
- UFC Record
- 7-8
- Height
- 5'8"
- Reach
- 71"
- Age
- 38
- Stance
- Southpaw
- Last Fight
- L vs Maheshate · Decision · Apr 2024
Pro record from Sherdog (snapshot 2026-07-03) plus every UFC bout since; UFC record from UFCStats.
Gabriel Benitez's Last 5 Fights
Benitez is 1-4 in the last five UFC fights.
- Loss vs Maheshate · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Nicolau vs. Perez · Apr 2024
- Loss vs Jim Miller · Submission · R3 3:25 · UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 · Jan 2024
- Win vs Charlie Ontiveros · KO/TKO · R1 3:33 · UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Cruz · Aug 2022
- Loss vs David Onama · KO/TKO · R1 4:24 · UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Hill · Feb 2022
- Loss vs Billy Quarantillo · KO/TKO · R3 3:40 · UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Moises · Jul 2021
Striking
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Round-by-Round Output
Sig. Strikes Landed per Round — Gabriel Benitez vs Average
Gabriel Benitez lands 22.6 strikes in R1 but 24.5 in R3+ — output increases in later rounds.
Gabriel Benitez's UFC Fight History
15 UFC fights on record (7-8), most recent first.
| Result | Opponent | Method | Rd · Time | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L | Maheshate | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Nicolau vs. Perez | 2024-04-27 |
| L | Jim Miller | Submission | R3 · 3:25 | UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 | 2024-01-13 |
| W | Charlie Ontiveros | KO/TKO | R1 · 3:33 | UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Cruz | 2022-08-13 |
| L | David Onama | KO/TKO | R1 · 4:24 | UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Hill | 2022-02-19 |
| L | Billy Quarantillo | KO/TKO | R3 · 3:40 | UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Moises | 2021-07-17 |
| W | Justin Jaynes | KO/TKO | R1 · 4:06 | UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Vettori | 2020-12-05 |
| L | Omar Morales | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teixeira | 2020-05-13 |
| L | Sodiq Yusuff | KO/TKO | R1 · 4:14 | UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2 | 2019-08-17 |
| W | Humberto Bandenay | KO/TKO | R1 · 0:39 | UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Usman | 2018-05-19 |
| W | Jason Knight | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega | 2017-12-09 |
| L | Enrique Barzola | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos | 2017-05-13 |
| W | Sam Sicilia | Submission | R2 · 1:20 | UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Johnson | 2016-09-17 |
| L | Andre Fili | KO/TKO | R1 · 3:13 | UFC Fight Night: Magny vs Gastelum | 2015-11-21 |
| W | Clay Collard | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 188: Velasquez vs Werdum | 2015-06-13 |
| W | Humberto Brown Morrison | Submission | R3 · 0:30 | UFC 180: Werdum vs Hunt | 2014-11-15 |
How Benitez Ranks at Featherweight
Percentile among the 191 featherweight fighters in our database (higher is better; absorbed strikes are inverted).
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