Karolina Kowalkiewicz
19 UFC Fights | 47% Win Rate | 1 Finishes (11%)
Karolina Kowalkiewicz UFC Record & Pro MMA Record
Karolina Kowalkiewicz is 9-10 in the UFC across 19 fights, with 1 win by submission and 8 by decision. The full pro MMA record is 16-10, 7-0 of it outside the UFC. Kowalkiewicz competes at women's strawweight as an orthodox volume striker, standing 5'3" with a 64" reach at 40 years old. The last bout was a loss to Julia Polastri by knockout in Oct 2025.
Best attribute: striking volume (significant strikes landed per minute) — 91st percentile among 90 women's strawweight fighters (5.5 sig. strikes/min).
Karolina Kowalkiewicz's UFC win rate is 47% (9 of 19 fights), and 11% of those wins came by finish. Kowalkiewicz averages 0.3 takedowns per fight at 23% accuracy and stops 75% of opponents' takedown attempts.
- Pro MMA Record
- 16-10
- UFC Record
- 9-10
- Height
- 5'3"
- Reach
- 64"
- Age
- 40
- Stance
- Orthodox
- Last Fight
- L vs Julia Polastri · KO/TKO · Oct 2025
Pro record from Sherdog (snapshot 2026-07-03) plus every UFC bout since; UFC record from UFCStats.
Karolina Kowalkiewicz's Last 5 Fights
Kowalkiewicz is 2-3 in the last five UFC fights.
- Loss vs Julia Polastri · KO/TKO · R3 2:56 · UFC Fight Night: Oliveira vs. Gamrot · Oct 2025
- Loss vs Denise Gomes · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Prates · Nov 2024
- Loss vs Iasmin Lucindo · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC 301: Pantoja vs. Erceg · May 2024
- Win vs Diana Belbita · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Dawson vs. Green · Oct 2023
- Win vs Vanessa Demopoulos · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Hill · May 2023
Striking
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Defensive
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Round-by-Round Output
Sig. Strikes Landed per Round — Karolina Kowalkiewicz vs Average
Karolina Kowalkiewicz lands 23.0 strikes in R1 but 27.5 in R3+ — output increases in later rounds.
Karolina Kowalkiewicz's UFC Fight History
19 UFC fights on record (9-10), most recent first.
| Result | Opponent | Method | Rd · Time | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L | Julia Polastri | KO/TKO | R3 · 2:56 | UFC Fight Night: Oliveira vs. Gamrot | 2025-10-11 |
| L | Denise Gomes | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Prates | 2024-11-09 |
| L | Iasmin Lucindo | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 301: Pantoja vs. Erceg | 2024-05-04 |
| W | Diana Belbita | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Dawson vs. Green | 2023-10-07 |
| W | Vanessa Demopoulos | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Hill | 2023-05-20 |
| W | Silvana Gomez Juarez | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 281: Adesanya vs. Pereira | 2022-11-12 |
| W | Felice Herrig | Submission | R2 · 4:01 | UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Rozenstruik | 2022-06-04 |
| L | Jessica Penne | Submission | R1 · 4:32 | UFC 265: Lewis vs. Gane | 2021-08-07 |
| L | Yan Xiaonan | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Hooker | 2020-02-22 |
| L | Alexa Grasso | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes | 2019-06-08 |
| L | Michelle Waterson-Gomez | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Gaethje | 2019-03-30 |
| L | Jessica Andrade | KO/TKO | R1 · 1:58 | UFC 228: Woodley vs. Till | 2018-09-08 |
| W | Felice Herrig | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 223: Khabib vs. Iaquinta | 2018-04-07 |
| W | Jodie Esquibel | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Till | 2017-10-21 |
| L | Claudia Gadelha | Submission | R1 · 3:03 | UFC 212: Aldo vs. Holloway | 2017-06-03 |
| L★ | Joanna Jedrzejczyk | Decision | R5 · 5:00 | UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor | 2016-11-12 |
| W | Rose Namajunas | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley | 2016-07-30 |
| W | Heather Clark | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs Arlovski | 2016-05-08 |
| W | Randa Markos | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 | 2015-12-19 |
How Kowalkiewicz Ranks at Women's Strawweight
Percentile among the 90 women's strawweight fighters in our database (higher is better; absorbed strikes are inverted).
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