Mario Bautista
15 UFC Fights | 80% Win Rate | 5 Finishes (42%)
Mario Bautista UFC Record & Pro MMA Record
Mario Bautista is 12-3 in the UFC across 15 fights, with 1 win by knockout, 4 by submission and 7 by decision. The full pro MMA record is 18-3, 6-0 of it outside the UFC. Bautista competes at bantamweight as a switch outfighter, standing 5'9" with a 69" reach at 33 years old. The last bout was a win over Cory Sandhagen by unanimous decision in Jul 2026.
Best attribute: striking volume (significant strikes landed per minute) — 92nd percentile among 182 bantamweight fighters (5.3 sig. strikes/min).
Mario Bautista's UFC win rate is 80% (12 of 15 fights), and 42% of those wins came by finish. Bautista averages 1.3 takedowns per fight at 38% accuracy and stops 56% of opponents' takedown attempts.
- Pro MMA Record
- 18-3
- UFC Record
- 12-3
- Height
- 5'9"
- Reach
- 69"
- Age
- 33
- Stance
- Switch
- Last Fight
- W vs Cory Sandhagen · Decision - Unanimous · Jul 2026
Pro record from Sherdog (snapshot 2026-07-03) plus every UFC bout since; UFC record from UFCStats.
Mario Bautista's Last 5 Fights
Bautista is 4-1 in the last five UFC fights.
- Win vs Cory Sandhagen · Decision - Unanimous · R3 5:00 · UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2 · Jul 2026
- Win vs Vinicius Oliveira · Submission · R2 4:46 · UFC Fight Night: Bautista vs. Oliveira · Feb 2026
- Loss vs Umar Nurmagomedov · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC 321: Aspinall vs. Gane · Oct 2025
- Win vs Patchy Mix · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2 · Jun 2025
- Win vs Jose Aldo · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr. · Oct 2024
Striking
Fighter Profile
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Defensive
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Grappling
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Finish Probability by Round
Round-by-Round Output
Sig. Strikes Landed per Round — Mario Bautista vs Average
Mario Bautista lands 16.7 strikes in R1 but 36.4 in R3+ — output increases in later rounds.
Mario Bautista's UFC Fight History
15 UFC fights on record (12-3), most recent first.
| Result | Opponent | Method | Rd · Time | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Cory Sandhagen | Decision - Unanimous | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2 | 2026-07-11 |
| W | Vinicius Oliveira | Submission | R2 · 4:46 | UFC Fight Night: Bautista vs. Oliveira | 2026-02-07 |
| L | Umar Nurmagomedov | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 321: Aspinall vs. Gane | 2025-10-25 |
| W | Patchy Mix | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2 | 2025-06-07 |
| W | Jose Aldo | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr. | 2024-10-05 |
| W | Ricky Simon | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 | 2024-01-13 |
| W | Da'Mon Blackshear | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley | 2023-08-19 |
| W | Guido Cannetti | Submission | R1 · 3:18 | UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Dvalishvili | 2023-03-11 |
| W | Benito Lopez | Submission | R1 · 4:54 | UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Lemos | 2022-11-05 |
| W | Brian Kelleher | Submission | R1 · 2:27 | UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Gamrot | 2022-06-25 |
| W | Jay Perrin | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Hill | 2022-02-19 |
| L | Trevin Jones | KO/TKO | R2 · 0:47 | UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya | 2021-03-06 |
| W | Miles Johns | KO/TKO | R2 · 1:41 | UFC 247: Jones vs. Reyes | 2020-02-08 |
| W | Jin Soo Son | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Edwards | 2019-07-20 |
| L | Cory Sandhagen | Submission | R1 · 3:31 | UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Dillashaw | 2019-01-19 |
How Bautista Ranks at Bantamweight
Percentile among the 182 bantamweight fighters in our database (higher is better; absorbed strikes are inverted).
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