Gabriel Benitez

FeatherweightOutfighter
7 - 8

15 UFC Fights | 47% Win Rate | 5 Finishes (71%)

Height
5' 8"
Reach
71"
Weight
155 lbs.
Age
38
Southpaw

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.

  1. Loss vs Maheshate · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Nicolau vs. Perez · Apr 2024
  2. Loss vs Jim Miller · Submission · R3 3:25 · UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 · Jan 2024
  3. Win vs Charlie Ontiveros · KO/TKO · R1 3:33 · UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Cruz · Aug 2022
  4. Loss vs David Onama · KO/TKO · R1 4:24 · UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Hill · Feb 2022
  5. Loss vs Billy Quarantillo · KO/TKO · R3 3:40 · UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Moises · Jul 2021

Striking

Fighter Profile

Offensive Output

Sig. Strikes / Min
5.3
Accuracy
42%
Knockdowns / Fight
0.27

Defensive

Absorbed / Min
4.5
Strike Differential
+0.8
Opp. Accuracy Against
36%
hard to hit

Strike Targets

Position Breakdown

Grappling

Takedowns & Control

Takedowns / Fight
0.1
Takedown Accuracy
50%
Takedown Defense
56%
Control Time / Fight
0:22
Sub Attempts / Fight
0.5

Win Methods

Finish Probability by Round

R1
20% KO
0% Sub
R2
0% KO
7% Sub
R3+
0% KO
7% Sub

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.

ResultOpponentMethodRd · TimeEventDate
LMaheshateDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC Fight Night: Nicolau vs. Perez2024-04-27
LJim MillerSubmissionR3 · 3:25UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 22024-01-13
WCharlie OntiverosKO/TKOR1 · 3:33UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Cruz2022-08-13
LDavid OnamaKO/TKOR1 · 4:24UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Hill2022-02-19
LBilly QuarantilloKO/TKOR3 · 3:40UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Moises2021-07-17
WJustin JaynesKO/TKOR1 · 4:06UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Vettori2020-12-05
LOmar MoralesDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teixeira2020-05-13
LSodiq YusuffKO/TKOR1 · 4:14UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 22019-08-17
WHumberto BandenayKO/TKOR1 · 0:39UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Usman2018-05-19
WJason KnightDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega2017-12-09
LEnrique BarzolaDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos2017-05-13
WSam SiciliaSubmissionR2 · 1:20UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Johnson2016-09-17
LAndre FiliKO/TKOR1 · 3:13UFC Fight Night: Magny vs Gastelum2015-11-21
WClay CollardDecisionR3 · 5:00UFC 188: Velasquez vs Werdum2015-06-13
WHumberto Brown MorrisonSubmissionR3 · 0:30UFC 180: Werdum vs Hunt2014-11-15

How Benitez Ranks at Featherweight

Percentile among the 191 featherweight fighters in our database (higher is better; absorbed strikes are inverted).

Striking volume5.3 sig. strikes/min
89th percentile
Striking accuracy42%
31st percentile
Strikes absorbed4.5/min
23rd percentile
Takedowns0.1/fight
9th percentile
Takedown defense56%
37th percentile
Knockdown power0.27/fight
67th percentile

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