Sodiq Yusuff
10 UFC Fights | 60% Win Rate | 3 Finishes (50%)
Sodiq Yusuff UFC Record & Pro MMA Record
Sodiq Yusuff is 6-4 in the UFC across 10 fights, with 2 wins by knockout, 1 by submission and 3 by decision. The full pro MMA record is 13-5, 7-1 of it outside the UFC. Yusuff competes at featherweight as an orthodox outfighter, standing 5'9" with a 71" reach at 33 years old. The last bout was a loss to Mairon Santos by decision in May 2025.
Best attribute: striking volume (significant strikes landed per minute) — 86th percentile among 191 featherweight fighters (5.0 sig. strikes/min).
Sodiq Yusuff's UFC win rate is 60% (6 of 10 fights), and 50% of those wins came by finish. Yusuff averages 0.3 takedowns per fight at 25% accuracy and stops 55% of opponents' takedown attempts.
- Pro MMA Record
- 13-5
- UFC Record
- 6-4
- Height
- 5'9"
- Reach
- 71"
- Age
- 33
- Stance
- Orthodox
- Last Fight
- L vs Mairon Santos · Decision · May 2025
Pro record from Sherdog (snapshot 2026-07-03) plus every UFC bout since; UFC record from UFCStats.
Sodiq Yusuff's Last 5 Fights
Yusuff is 2-3 in the last five UFC fights.
- Loss vs Mairon Santos · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales · May 2025
- Loss vs Diego Lopes · KO/TKO · R1 1:29 · UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill · Apr 2024
- Loss vs Edson Barboza · Decision · R5 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Yusuff vs. Barboza · Oct 2023
- Win vs Don Shainis · Submission · R1 0:30 · UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Yan · Oct 2022
- Win vs Alex Caceres · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Ankalaev · Mar 2022
Striking
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Round-by-Round Output
Sig. Strikes Landed per Round — Sodiq Yusuff vs Average
Sodiq Yusuff lands 21.0 strikes in R1 but 23.9 in R3+ — output increases in later rounds.
Sodiq Yusuff's UFC Fight History
10 UFC fights on record (6-4), most recent first.
| Result | Opponent | Method | Rd · Time | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L | Mairon Santos | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales | 2025-05-17 |
| L | Diego Lopes | KO/TKO | R1 · 1:29 | UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill | 2024-04-13 |
| L | Edson Barboza | Decision | R5 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Yusuff vs. Barboza | 2023-10-14 |
| W | Don Shainis | Submission | R1 · 0:30 | UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Yan | 2022-10-01 |
| W | Alex Caceres | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Ankalaev | 2022-03-12 |
| L | Arnold Allen | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Holland | 2021-04-10 |
| W | Andre Fili | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 246: McGregor vs. Cowboy | 2020-01-18 |
| W | Gabriel Benitez | KO/TKO | R1 · 4:14 | UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2 | 2019-08-17 |
| W | Sheymon Moraes | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Gaethje | 2019-03-30 |
| W | Suman Mokhtarian | KO/TKO | R1 · 2:14 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa | 2018-12-01 |
How Yusuff Ranks at Featherweight
Percentile among the 191 featherweight fighters in our database (higher is better; absorbed strikes are inverted).
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