Yair Rodriguez
16 UFC Fights | 69% Win Rate | 5 Finishes (45%)
Yair Rodriguez UFC Record & Pro MMA Record
Yair Rodriguez is 11-4 in the UFC across 16 fights (1 no contest), with 4 wins by knockout, 1 by submission and 6 by decision. The full pro MMA record is 20-5 (1 NC), 9-1 of it outside the UFC. Rodriguez competes at featherweight as an orthodox outfighter, standing 5'11" with a 71" reach at 33 years old. The last bout was a win over Patricio Freire by decision in Apr 2025.
Best attribute: striking volume (significant strikes landed per minute) — 80th percentile among 191 featherweight fighters (4.6 sig. strikes/min).
Yair Rodriguez's UFC win rate is 69% (11 of 16 fights), and 45% of those wins came by finish. Rodriguez averages 0.7 takedowns per fight at 29% accuracy and stops 59% of opponents' takedown attempts.
- Pro MMA Record
- 20-5 (1 NC)
- UFC Record
- 11-4 (1 NC)
- Height
- 5'11"
- Reach
- 71"
- Age
- 33
- Stance
- Orthodox
- Last Fight
- W vs Patricio Freire · Decision · Apr 2025
Pro record from Sherdog (snapshot 2026-07-03) plus every UFC bout since; UFC record from UFCStats.
Yair Rodriguez's Last 5 Fights
Rodriguez is 3-2 in the last five UFC fights.
- Win vs Patricio Freire · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes · Apr 2025
- Loss vs Brian Ortega · Submission · R3 0:58 · UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2 · Feb 2024
- Loss vs Alexander Volkanovski · KO/TKO · R3 4:19 · UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez · Jul 2023
- Win vs Josh Emmett · Submission · R2 4:19 · UFC 284: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski · Feb 2023
- Win vs Brian Ortega · KO/TKO · R1 4:11 · UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. Rodriguez · Jul 2022
Striking
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Round-by-Round Output
Sig. Strikes Landed per Round — Yair Rodriguez vs Average
Yair Rodriguez lands 21.6 strikes in R1 but 22.4 in R3+ — output increases in later rounds.
Yair Rodriguez's UFC Fight History
16 UFC fights on record (11-4 (1 NC)), most recent first.
| Result | Opponent | Method | Rd · Time | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Patricio Freire | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes | 2025-04-12 |
| L | Brian Ortega | Submission | R3 · 0:58 | UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2 | 2024-02-24 |
| L★ | Alexander Volkanovski | KO/TKO | R3 · 4:19 | UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez | 2023-07-08 |
| W★ | Josh Emmett | Submission | R2 · 4:19 | UFC 284: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski | 2023-02-11 |
| W | Brian Ortega | KO/TKO | R1 · 4:11 | UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. Rodriguez | 2022-07-16 |
| L | Max Holloway | Decision | R5 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Rodriguez | 2021-11-13 |
| W | Jeremy Stephens | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Weidman | 2019-10-18 |
| D/NC | Jeremy Stephens | Other | R1 · 0:15 | UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Stephens | 2019-09-21 |
| W | Chan Sung Jung | KO/TKO | R5 · 4:59 | UFC Fight Night: Korean Zombie vs. Rodriguez | 2018-11-10 |
| L | Frankie Edgar | KO/TKO | R2 · 5:00 | UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos | 2017-05-13 |
| W | BJ Penn | KO/TKO | R2 · 0:24 | UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Penn | 2017-01-15 |
| W | Alex Caceres | Decision | R5 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Caceres | 2016-08-06 |
| W | Andre Fili | KO/TKO | R2 · 2:15 | UFC 197: Jones vs Saint Preux | 2016-04-23 |
| W | Dan Hooker | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 192: Cormier vs Gustafsson | 2015-10-03 |
| W | Charles Rosa | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 188: Velasquez vs Werdum | 2015-06-13 |
| W★ | Leonardo Morales | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 180: Werdum vs Hunt | 2014-11-15 |
How Rodriguez Ranks at Featherweight
Percentile among the 191 featherweight fighters in our database (higher is better; absorbed strikes are inverted).
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