Sean Strickland · MMA Index

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Event	Date
W	CKhamzat ChimaevTitle Middleweight	Decision (Split) R5 · 5:00	UFC 328: Chimaev vs. Strickland	May 9, 2026
W	#4Anthony Hernandez Middleweight	KO/TKO · Punches to Head On Ground R3 · 2:23	UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Hernandez	Feb 21, 2026
L	CDricus Du PlessisTitle Middleweight	Decision (Unanimous) R5 · 5:00	UFC 312: Du Plessis vs. Strickland 2	Feb 8, 2025
W	#7Paulo Costa Middleweight	Decision (Split) R5 · 5:00	UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier	Jun 1, 2024
L	#2Dricus Du PlessisTitle Middleweight	Decision (Split) R5 · 5:00	UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis	Jan 20, 2024
W	CIsrael AdesanyaTitle Middleweight	Decision (Unanimous) R5 · 5:00	UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland	Sep 9, 2023
W	Abus Magomedov Middleweight	KO/TKO · Punches to Head On Ground R2 · 4:20	UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Magomedov	Jul 1, 2023
W	Nassourdine Imavov Light Heavyweight	Decision (Unanimous) R5 · 5:00	UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Imavov	Jan 14, 2023
L	#3Jared Cannonier Middleweight	Decision (Split) R5 · 5:00	UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Strickland	Dec 17, 2022
L	Alex Pereira Middleweight	KO/TKO · Punches to Head At Distance R1 · 2:36	UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier	Jul 2, 2022
W	#6Jack Hermansson Middleweight	Decision (Split) R5 · 5:00	UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Strickland	Feb 5, 2022
W	#8Uriah Hall Middleweight	Decision (Unanimous) R5 · 5:00	UFC Fight Night: Hall vs. Strickland	Jul 31, 2021
W	#15Krzysztof Jotko Middleweight	Decision (Unanimous) R3 · 5:00	UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Prochazka	May 1, 2021
W	Brendan Allen Catch Weight	KO/TKO · Punches to Head In Clinch R2 · 1:32	UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Dos Anjos	Nov 14, 2020
W	Jack Marshman Middleweight	Decision (Unanimous) R3 · 5:00	UFC Fight Night: Hall vs. Silva	Oct 31, 2020
W	Nordine Taleb Welterweight	KO/TKO · Punch to Head On Ground R2 · 3:10	UFC Fight Night: Oezdemir vs. Smith	Oct 27, 2018
L	Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos Welterweight	KO/TKO · Kick to Head At Distance Wheel Kick R1 · 3:40	UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington	May 12, 2018
W	Court McGee Welterweight	Decision (Unanimous) R3 · 5:00	UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis	Nov 11, 2017
L	#11Kamaru Usman Welterweight	Decision (Unanimous) R3 · 5:00	UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2	Apr 8, 2017
W	Tom Breese Welterweight	Decision (Split) R3 · 5:00	UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping 2	Jun 4, 2016
W	Alex Garcia Welterweight	KO/TKO · Punches to Head At Distance R3 · 4:25	UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Cowboy	Feb 21, 2016
W	Igor Araujo Welterweight	Decision (Unanimous) R3 · 5:00	UFC Fight Night: Mir vs. Duffee	Jul 15, 2015
L	Santiago Ponzinibbio Welterweight	Decision (Unanimous) R3 · 5:00	UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs. Mir	Feb 22, 2015
W	Luke Barnatt Middleweight	Decision (Split) R3 · 5:00	UFC Fight Night: Munoz vs. Mousasi	May 31, 2014
W	Robert McDaniel Middleweight	Submission · Rear Naked Choke R1 · 4:33	UFC 171: Hendricks vs. Lawler	Mar 15, 2014

Outside the UFC

Via Sherdog

13-0across 13 bouts · 2 promotions · wins by 7 KO · 3 sub · 3 decKOTC · LBFN 7

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Promotion	Date
W	Matt Lagler13-16-1	TKO (Punches) R1 · 4:59	KOTC	Aug 29, 2013
W	Yusuke Sakashita12-5	Decision (Unanimous) R5 · 5:00	KOTC	Jul 5, 2013
W	Bill Albrecht23-16	KO (Punch) R1 · 2:41	KOTC	Feb 7, 2013
W	Josh Bryant15-4	Decision (Split) R3 · 5:00	KOTC	Dec 8, 2012
W	Brandon Hunt9-10	TKO (Punches) R1 · 3:24	KOTC	Apr 26, 2012
W	Brandon Hunt9-10	TKO (Punches) R1 · 3:48	KOTC	Dec 17, 2011
W	Brett Sbardella	KO (Punches) R1 · 1:03	KOTC	Aug 6, 2011
W	Donavin Hawkey10-8	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) R1 · 1:21	KOTC	Nov 25, 2010
W	Adriel Montes2-3	TKO (Punches) R2 · 1:05	KOTC	Oct 2, 2010
W	George Interiano4-3	Decision (Unanimous) R3 · 3:00	LBFN 7	Jan 3, 2010
W	William Wheeler3-3	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) R1 · 1:55	KOTC	Oct 3, 2009
W	Brandon Ellsworth	TKO (Punches) R1 · 1:28	KOTC	Mar 14, 2009
W	Tyler Pottett0-1	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) R2 · 1:53	KOTC	Mar 22, 2008

Non-UFC bouts (regional/other promotions via Sherdog) and Dana White’s Contender Series — shown for context only, excluded from Schedule Score, striking/grappling rates, and every UFC-scoped metric.

Method of victory & defeat

KO / TKO

12 wins, 2 losses

W12

L2

Submission

4 wins, 0 losses

W4

L0

Decision

15 wins, 5 losses

W15

L5

Pro record data: Sherdog.

Finishes

UFC KOs

5

Above avg · 15%Middleweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.28

Above avg · 0.24Middleweight

UFC submissions

1

Below avg · 8%Middleweight

Submission attempts / fight

0.16

Below avg · 0.39Middleweight

KO history

UFC fights only — knockout power, chin durability, and when the last finish landed. Genuine knockouts are kept separate from cut, injury, and corner stoppages.

Sean Strickland

Knockout rate

20%

5 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

7

0.36 per 100 head

Clean KO losses

2

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

3

0.39 per 100 head

Never submittedin the UFC

Decision behavior

Judging

15 scorecards on file

Sean Strickland

Scorecard luck

Cards have leaned their way

Won 5 of 6 coin-flip decisions — the kind of close calls that have tended to fall their way. Judges have given them 11 of 20 rounds they disagreed on (55%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

5–1

Won – Lost

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

11–9

Won – Lost

55% went their way

Unanimous

9 decisions · 60%

W 7L 2

Split

6 decisions · 40%

W 5L 1

Majority

No decisions on file

W 0L 0

10-8 rounds

5 rounds total

3

Won

2

Lost

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

UFC career

Sig. strikes / min

5.98

Striking accuracy

42.00%

Sig. absorbed / min

4.53

Striking defense

60.00%

Striking zones

Per-15-minute breakdown — where this fighter lands, and where they get hit.

UFC only

Sean Strickland

Landed per 15

Head

72.4

elite — top of division

Body

12.7

top 24% of division

Leg

4.6

below division average

Absorbed per 15

Head

28.4

above division average

Body

23.3

bottom of the division

Leg

16.3

bottom of the division

Career totals — landed / attempted

Landed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	72.4	1,963	5,036	39%
Body	12.7	343	523	66%
Leg	4.6	124	158	78%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	28.4	769	3,096	25%
Body	23.3	631	1,021	62%
Leg	16.3	442	564	78%

Per-15-minute rates and totals come from UFCStats fight-totals across this fighter’s UFC career. Percentile context is computed against every fighter currently assigned to this weight class with at least two recorded UFC bouts. “Absorbed” percentiles are inverted so “top of division” always means better outcome.

Derived metrics

Computed from UFC career stats

Strike differential

SLpM − SApM

+1.45

Defensive rating

(str def + td def) / 2

64%

Striking edge

str acc − (100 − str def)

+2%

Career grappling

UFC career

Takedowns / 15min

0.66

Takedown accuracy

62.00%

Sub. attempts / 15min

0.10

Takedown defense

68.00%

Grappling

Per-15-minute breakdown of wrestling output and ground control.

UFC only

Sean Strickland

Offense

Takedowns

per 15 min

0.7

below division average

TD accuracy

% of attempts landed

62%

top 17% of division

Sub attempts

per 15 min

0.1

below division average

Control

min on top, per 15

1.2 min

well below average

Defense

TD defense

% of opponent attempts stopped

69%

above division average

Controlled

min on bottom, per 15

1.0 min

no division reference

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	18 / 29
Submission attempts	4
Control time	33:52

Defense

TDs defended	53 / 77
Control absorbed	26:29

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (407min total). Value colors reflect the per-15 rate’s percentile against the current weight class baseline; raw totals without a division reference stay neutral.

Pace & fade

How this fighter's work rate holds up as a fight wears on — round-by-round output (striking, takedown attempts, and control time combined), and whether they fade. The fade % compares round-3 output to round 1 over bouts that reached the third round.

UFC only

Sean Strickland

25 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 407 min

131%

R3 pace · 19 bouts

Strickland actually builds to 131% of round-1 work rate by round 3, across 19 UFC bouts that reached the third round.

Strickland ▲ BUILDSOutput / min

Rounds backed by fewer than 2 bouts are drawn smaller and dimmed with an n= count — a deep round seen in one or two fights is a thin sample, not a settled rate. Per-round bout counts are in the breakdown below.

Full per-round breakdown

What drives the pace · per round

The composite output line above blends these three inputs — splitting them out shows whether the work rate is built on striking volume, takedown pressure, or top control, and which input fades.

Sig. strikes landed

Stricklandlanded / min

Takedown attempts

Stricklandattempts / min

Control time

Strickland% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	5.4	4.7	4.0	0.08	9%	25
R2	6.4	5.9	4.2	0.06	10%	22
R3	6.7	6.0	4.4	0.11	8%	19
R4	7.5	7.3	5.3	0.02	3%	9
R5	8.6	8.1	6.1	0.04	8%	9

Output / minis the headline work rate — significant strikes landed, plus 3 per takedown attempt, plus one per 15 seconds of control — so a takedown-and-grind round isn’t scored as idle the way bare striking volume would. The remaining columns are its components. Per-round rates use UFCStats per-round data (available for ~95% of bouts since 2008). Each round’s rates are averaged only over bouts that reached that round, so the bout count shrinks as rounds deepen. The final round of a finished fight is pro-rated by its actual length.

Schedule Score

Who they've faced × what they've done. Percentile-ranked across every UFC fighter w/ ≥3 resolved bouts. Recent fights weighted heavier.

UFC only

Sean Strickland

25 resolved UFC bouts · 11 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

73/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

who you've faced (time-weighted)

73

93rd percentile

Quality wins

what you've done against that schedule

58

88th percentile

How to read this

Every UFC opponent is scored by where they were ranked and what their UFC record was at the time of that fight — not where they sit today. Schedule strength is the recency-weighted average of opponent quality; quality wins scores actual results against that schedule (finishes count more than splits, losses cost the full opp quality). The headline is a percentile rank against every UFC fighter with at least three resolved bouts. Note: UFC ranking data is sparse before December 2018, so legacy-era fighters score from opponent UFC record-at-time when ranks are missing.

Opponent quality distribution

Every UFC bout, grouped by who the opponent was at the time.

6

4

5

2

3

2

ChampionHeld the title in this weight class at the time
Top-5Ranked #1–#5 at the time
Top-15Ranked #6–#15 at the time
Cross-div rankedRanked #1–#15 in another division at the time
Established5+ UFC wins entering the bout, ≥.500
Building3+ UFC fights, ≥.40 win rate
UnprovenFewer than 3 fights, or sub-.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Champion	6	2-4	33%
Top-5	4	3-1	75%
Top-15	5	3-2	60%
Cross-div ranked	2	2-0	100%
Established	3	3-0	100%
Building	3	3-0	100%
Unproven	2	2-0	100%

Highest-quality opponents

Toughest opponents on the scheduleScore, scored at the time of the fight.

All bouts — opponent quality bout-by-bout

Res	Opponent	Tier	Score	Date
W	Khamzat ChimaevCHAMP	Champion	100	May 9, 2026
W	Anthony Hernandez#4	Top-5	81	Feb 21, 2026
L	Dricus Du PlessisCHAMP	Champion	100	Feb 8, 2025
W	Paulo Costa#7	Top-5	82	Jun 1, 2024
L	Dricus Du Plessis#2	Champion	96	Jan 20, 2024
W	Israel AdesanyaCHAMP	Champion	100	Sep 9, 2023
W	Abus Magomedov	Top-15	43	Jul 1, 2023
W	Nassourdine Imavov	Cross-div ranked	45	Jan 14, 2023
L	Jared Cannonier#3	Top-5	86	Dec 17, 2022
L	Alex Pereira	Champion	68	Jul 2, 2022
W	Jack Hermansson#6	Top-5	79	Feb 5, 2022
W	Uriah Hall#8	Top-15	72	Jul 31, 2021
W	Krzysztof Jotko#15	Top-15	67	May 1, 2021
W	Brendan Allen	Cross-div ranked	36	Nov 14, 2020
W	Jack Marshman	Unproven	12	Oct 31, 2020
W	Nordine Taleb	Established	30	Oct 27, 2018
L	Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos	Top-15	45	May 12, 2018
W	Court McGee	Building	22	Nov 11, 2017
L	Kamaru Usman#11	Champion	88	Apr 8, 2017
W	Tom Breese	Established	26	Jun 4, 2016
W	Alex Garcia	Established	26	Feb 21, 2016
W	Igor Araujo	Building	18	Jul 15, 2015
L	Santiago Ponzinibbio	Top-15	51	Feb 22, 2015
W	Luke Barnatt	Building	18	May 31, 2014
W	Robert McDaniel	Unproven	8	Mar 15, 2014

Per-bout quality scoring: champion = 100; same-division ranks 1–5 = 90 → 78 linear; ranks 6–15 = 75 → 60 linear; cross-division champion = 78; cross-division ranked = 45; title-fight challenger (no rank signal) = 50, bumped to 65 when opp had an elite career UFC record at the time. Unranked opponents are scored on UFC record-at-time (long-tenured vet 60, contender-level 45, established 30, building 18, unproven 8). P4P top-10 at time adds +5; top-3 adds +8 (capped at 100). The Schedule Score combines schedule strength (65%) and quality wins (35%), then is held toward a rookie baseline for fighters with limited UFC experience so a thin résumé reads honestly low.

Career cohorts

25 resolved UFC bouts

Performance broken down by situation — camp length, response to the previous result, title-fight presence, and rematches. Computed across every completed UFC bout.

Camp length

Days between fights

Short turnaround

< 100 days

6-0

6 bouts

Typical camp

100–180 days

6-3

9 bouts

Long layoff

> 180 days

5-4

9 bouts

UFC debut

first UFC bout

1-0

1 bout

Post-result bounce

Performance based on the previous UFC result

After a loss

next bout after a defeat

6-1

7 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

11-6

17 bouts

First UFC bout

no precedent

1-0

1 bout

Title fights

Performance with a belt on the line

All title fights

as challenger or champion

2-2

4 bouts

As champion

defending the belt

0-1

1 bout

As challenger

fighting for the belt

2-1

3 bouts

Rematches

Performance when meeting an opponent again

All rematches

any second meeting

0-1

1 bout

Revenge bouts

lost the first meeting

0-1

1 bout

Encore bouts

won the first meeting

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Activity & layoff

When this fighter last competed, how often they've been active, and how that reads against active peers in their division.

Days since last UFC bout

4 weeks

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Sean Strickland

Active

4 weekssince last bout

vs Khamzat Chimaev · May 9, 2026