Sam Hughes
12 UFC Fights | 50% Win Rate | 2 Finishes (33%)
Sam Hughes UFC Record & Pro MMA Record
Sam Hughes is 6-6 in the UFC across 12 fights, with 1 win by knockout, 1 by submission and 4 by decision. The full pro MMA record is 11-7, 5-1 of it outside the UFC. Hughes competes at women's strawweight as an orthodox outfighter, standing 5'5" with a 64" reach at 34 years old. The last bout was a loss to Piera Rodriguez by unanimous decision in Mar 2026.
Best attribute: striking volume (significant strikes landed per minute) — 63rd percentile among 90 women's strawweight fighters (4.3 sig. strikes/min).
Sam Hughes's UFC win rate is 50% (6 of 12 fights), and 33% of those wins came by finish. Hughes averages 1.1 takedowns per fight at 35% accuracy and stops 61% of opponents' takedown attempts.
- Pro MMA Record
- 11-7
- UFC Record
- 6-6
- Height
- 5'5"
- Reach
- 64"
- Age
- 34
- Stance
- Orthodox
- Last Fight
- L vs Piera Rodriguez · Decision - Unanimous · Mar 2026
Pro record from Sherdog (snapshot 2026-07-03) plus every UFC bout since; UFC record from UFCStats.
Sam Hughes's Last 5 Fights
Hughes is 3-2 in the last five UFC fights.
- Loss vs Piera Rodriguez · Decision - Unanimous · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Vallejos · Mar 2026
- Win vs Shauna Bannon · Submission · R2 1:58 · UFC Fight Night: Imavov vs. Borralho · Sep 2025
- Win vs Stephanie Luciano · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2 · Mar 2025
- Win vs Viktoriia Dudakova · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov · Aug 2024
- Loss vs Yazmin Jauregui · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2 · Feb 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 — Sam Hughes vs Average
Sam Hughes lands 18.6 strikes in R1 but 25.6 in R3+ — output increases in later rounds.
Sam Hughes's UFC Fight History
12 UFC fights on record (6-6), most recent first.
| Result | Opponent | Method | Rd · Time | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L | Piera Rodriguez | Decision - Unanimous | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Vallejos | 2026-03-14 |
| W | Shauna Bannon | Submission | R2 · 1:58 | UFC Fight Night: Imavov vs. Borralho | 2025-09-06 |
| W | Stephanie Luciano | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2 | 2025-03-15 |
| W | Viktoriia Dudakova | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov | 2024-08-03 |
| L | Yazmin Jauregui | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2 | 2024-02-24 |
| W | Jaqueline Amorim | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 287: Pereira vs. Adesanya 2 | 2023-04-08 |
| L | Piera Rodriguez | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Araujo | 2022-10-15 |
| W | Elise Reed | KO/TKO | R3 · 3:52 | UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Vieira | 2022-05-21 |
| W | Istela Nunes | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Muhammad | 2022-04-16 |
| L | Luana Pinheiro | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate | 2021-11-20 |
| L | Loma Lookboonmee | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Prochazka | 2021-05-01 |
| L | Tecia Pennington | KO/TKO | R1 · 5:00 | UFC 256: Figueiredo vs. Moreno | 2020-12-12 |
How Hughes 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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