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Carla Esparza

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Association: Team Oyama
Pro Debut Date: 2010-02-19
Pro Record: 19-8-0
Win Finish %: 42.1%
Quality Perf. %: 70.4%
Last Ranked: 1/01/2024

#2 Women Strawweight

Highest Quarterly Ranking: 10/01/2022

#1 Women Strawweight

All-Time Rank:

#23 Women (All)
Last Loss Date: 10/05/2024
Last Loss: [#7 W115] Tecia Pennington
Opponent's Last 5: W W L L W
UFC Record: 10-6-0
Octagon Time: 3:44:19
Title Bouts: 2-2-0
Longest Win Streak: 6 (2019-2022)
Next Best Win Streak: 2 (2017)
UFC Debut: 2014-12-12
Last UFC Fight: 2024-10-05

Complete Professional MMA Fight History
Fighter rankings represent most recent generated quarterly rating prior to the fight

  Opponent Outcome
L Tecia Pennington
#15 Women Strawweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
  UFC 307 - Pereira vs. Rountree
Saturday, October 5th 2024
L Weili Zhang
#4 Women Strawweight 		Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)
Round 2
  UFC 281 - Adesanya vs. Pereira
Saturday, November 12th 2022
W Rose Namajunas
#1 Women Strawweight 		Decision (Split)
Round 5
  UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje
Saturday, May 7th 2022
W Xiaonan Yan
#5 Women Strawweight 		TKO (Punches)
Round 2
  UFC Fight Night 188 - Font vs. Garbrandt
Saturday, May 22nd 2021
W Marina Rodriguez
#10 Women Strawweight 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
  UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till
Saturday, July 25th 2020
W Michelle Waterson-Gomez
#12 Women Strawweight 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
  UFC 249 - Ferguson vs. Gaethje
Saturday, May 9th 2020
W Alexa Grasso
#13 Women Strawweight 		Decision (Majority)
Round 3
  UFC Fight Night 159 - Rodriguez vs. Stephens
Saturday, September 21st 2019
W Virna Jandiroba
#15 Women Strawweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
  UFC Fight Night 150 - Jacare vs. Hermansson
Saturday, April 27th 2019
L Tatiana Suarez
#8 Women Strawweight 		TKO (Punches)
Round 3
  UFC 228 - Woodley vs. Till
Saturday, September 8th 2018
L Claudia Gadelha
#5 Women Strawweight 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
  UFC 225 - Whittaker vs. Romero 2
Saturday, June 9th 2018
W Cynthia Calvillo
#12 Women Strawweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
  UFC 219 - Cyborg vs. Holm
Saturday, December 30th 2017
W Maryna Moroz
#12 Women Strawweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
  UFC Fight Night 112 - Chiesa vs. Lee
Sunday, June 25th 2017
L Randa Markos
#26 Women Strawweight 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
  UFC Fight Night 105 - Lewis vs. Browne
Sunday, February 19th 2017
W Juliana Lima
#18 Women Strawweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
  UFC 197: Jones vs. Saint Preux
Saturday, April 23rd 2016
L Joanna Jedrzejczyk
#3 Women Strawweight 		KO (Punches)
Round 2
  UFC 185 - Pettis vs. Dos Anjos
Saturday, March 14th 2015
W Rose Namajunas
#7 Women Strawweight 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 3
  UFC - The Ultimate Fighter 20 Finale
Friday, December 12th 2014
W Bec Rawlings Decision (Unanimous)
Round 5
  Invicta FC 4 - Esparza vs. Hyatt
Saturday, January 5th 2013
W Lynn Alvarez TKO (Punches)
Round 1
  Invicta FC 3 - Penne vs. Sugiyama
Saturday, October 6th 2012
W Sarah Schneider
#7 Women Strawweight 		TKO (Punches)
Round 2
  Invicta FC 2 - Baszler vs. McMann
Saturday, July 28th 2012
W Felice Herrig
#14 Women Strawweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
  XFC 15 - Tribute
Friday, December 2nd 2011
L Jessica Aguilar
#9 Women Strawweight 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
  BFC - Bellator Fighting Championships 46
Saturday, June 25th 2011
W Yadira Anzaldua Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 1
  ECSC - Friday Night Fights 3
Friday, April 15th 2011
W Nina Nunes Decision (Split)
Round 3
  Crowbar MMA - Winter Brawl
Friday, December 10th 2010
L Megumi Fujii
#1 Women Strawweight 		Submission (Armbar)
Round 2
  BFC - Bellator Fighting Championships 24
Thursday, August 12th 2010
W Lacey Sears
#11 Women Strawweight 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 2
  NMEF / RMBB - Ladies Night: Clash of the T...
Friday, July 16th 2010
W Karina Hallinan Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 2
  LBFN 8 - Long Beach Fight Night 8
Sunday, April 18th 2010
W Cassie Trost TKO (Punches)
Round 1
  RITC 3 - Respect in the Cage 3
Friday, February 19th 2010
  Opponent Event Outcome
L Tecia Pennington
#15 Women Strawweight 		  UFC 307 - Pereira vs. Rountree
Saturday, October 5th 2024 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
L Weili Zhang
#4 Women Strawweight 		  UFC 281 - Adesanya vs. Pereira
Saturday, November 12th 2022 		Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)
Round 2
W Rose Namajunas
#1 Women Strawweight 		  UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje
Saturday, May 7th 2022 		Decision (Split)
Round 5
W Xiaonan Yan
#5 Women Strawweight 		  UFC Fight Night 188 - Font vs. Garbrandt
Saturday, May 22nd 2021 		TKO (Punches)
Round 2
W Marina Rodriguez
#10 Women Strawweight 		  UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till
Saturday, July 25th 2020 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
W Michelle Waterson-Gomez
#12 Women Strawweight 		  UFC 249 - Ferguson vs. Gaethje
Saturday, May 9th 2020 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
W Alexa Grasso
#13 Women Strawweight 		  UFC Fight Night 159 - Rodriguez vs. Stephens
Saturday, September 21st 2019 		Decision (Majority)
Round 3
W Virna Jandiroba
#15 Women Strawweight 		  UFC Fight Night 150 - Jacare vs. Hermansson
Saturday, April 27th 2019 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
L Tatiana Suarez
#8 Women Strawweight 		  UFC 228 - Woodley vs. Till
Saturday, September 8th 2018 		TKO (Punches)
Round 3
L Claudia Gadelha
#5 Women Strawweight 		  UFC 225 - Whittaker vs. Romero 2
Saturday, June 9th 2018 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
W Cynthia Calvillo
#12 Women Strawweight 		  UFC 219 - Cyborg vs. Holm
Saturday, December 30th 2017 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
W Maryna Moroz
#12 Women Strawweight 		  UFC Fight Night 112 - Chiesa vs. Lee
Sunday, June 25th 2017 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
L Randa Markos
#26 Women Strawweight 		  UFC Fight Night 105 - Lewis vs. Browne
Sunday, February 19th 2017 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
W Juliana Lima
#18 Women Strawweight 		  UFC 197: Jones vs. Saint Preux
Saturday, April 23rd 2016 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
L Joanna Jedrzejczyk
#3 Women Strawweight 		  UFC 185 - Pettis vs. Dos Anjos
Saturday, March 14th 2015 		KO (Punches)
Round 2
W Rose Namajunas
#7 Women Strawweight 		  UFC - The Ultimate Fighter 20 Finale
Friday, December 12th 2014 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 3
W Bec Rawlings   Invicta FC 4 - Esparza vs. Hyatt
Saturday, January 5th 2013 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 5
W Lynn Alvarez   Invicta FC 3 - Penne vs. Sugiyama
Saturday, October 6th 2012 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1
W Sarah Schneider
#7 Women Strawweight 		  Invicta FC 2 - Baszler vs. McMann
Saturday, July 28th 2012 		TKO (Punches)
Round 2
W Felice Herrig
#14 Women Strawweight 		  XFC 15 - Tribute
Friday, December 2nd 2011 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
L Jessica Aguilar
#9 Women Strawweight 		  BFC - Bellator Fighting Championships 46
Saturday, June 25th 2011 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
W Yadira Anzaldua   ECSC - Friday Night Fights 3
Friday, April 15th 2011 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 1
W Nina Nunes   Crowbar MMA - Winter Brawl
Friday, December 10th 2010 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
L Megumi Fujii
#1 Women Strawweight 		  BFC - Bellator Fighting Championships 24
Thursday, August 12th 2010 		Submission (Armbar)
Round 2
W Lacey Sears
#11 Women Strawweight 		  NMEF / RMBB - Ladies Night: Clash of the T...
Friday, July 16th 2010 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 2
W Karina Hallinan   LBFN 8 - Long Beach Fight Night 8
Sunday, April 18th 2010 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 2
W Cassie Trost   RITC 3 - Respect in the Cage 3
Friday, February 19th 2010 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1

Quarterly Generated Historical Rankings
Rating bar represents the fighter's standing relative to the top of the division at the time

Date ↑ ↓ Rank Record Points
01/01/2024   #2 Women Strawweight 19-7-0
200
10/01/2023   #2 Women Strawweight 19-7-0
220
07/01/2023   #2 Women Strawweight 19-7-0
230
04/01/2023 1 #2 Women Strawweight 19-7-0
230
01/01/2023 2 #3 Women Strawweight 19-7-0
230
10/01/2022   #1 Women Strawweight 19-6-0
293
07/01/2022 2 #1 Women Strawweight 19-6-0
293
04/01/2022   #3 Women Strawweight 18-6-0
157
01/01/2022   #3 Women Strawweight 18-6-0
157
10/01/2021   #3 Women Strawweight 18-6-0
151
07/01/2021 1 #3 Women Strawweight 18-6-0
151
04/01/2021   #4 Women Strawweight 17-6-0
113
01/01/2021 2 #4 Women Strawweight 17-6-0
113
10/01/2020 1 #6 Women Strawweight 17-6-0
113
07/01/2020 1 #7 Women Strawweight 16-6-0
106
04/01/2020   #6 Women Strawweight 15-6-0
97
01/01/2020 1 #6 Women Strawweight 15-6-0
97
10/01/2019 4 #7 Women Strawweight 15-6-0
97
07/01/2019 1 #11 Women Strawweight 14-6-0
87
04/01/2019   #12 Women Strawweight 13-6-0
69
01/01/2019 1 #12 Women Strawweight 13-6-0
69
10/01/2018 4 #11 Women Strawweight 13-6-0
69
07/01/2018 1 #7 Women Strawweight 13-5-0
85
04/01/2018   #6 Women Strawweight 13-4-0
92
01/01/2018 1 #6 Women Strawweight 13-4-0
92
10/01/2017 1 #7 Women Strawweight 12-4-0
78
07/01/2017 3 #6 Women Strawweight 12-4-0
78
04/01/2017 2 #9 Women Strawweight 11-4-0
62
01/01/2017   #7 Women Strawweight 11-3-0
72
10/01/2016   #7 Women Strawweight 11-3-0
72
07/01/2016   #7 Women Strawweight 11-3-0
72
04/01/2016 1 #7 Women Strawweight 10-3-0
59
01/01/2016   #6 Women Strawweight 10-3-0
63
10/01/2015 2 #6 Women Strawweight 10-3-0
63
07/01/2015 1 #4 Women Strawweight 10-3-0
63
04/01/2015 1 #3 Women Strawweight 10-3-0
63
01/01/2015 2 #2 Women Strawweight 10-2-0
81
10/01/2014 NR #4 Women Strawweight 9-2-0
60
01/01/2014 1 #5 Women Strawweight 9-2-0
49
10/01/2013 1 #6 Women Strawweight 9-2-0
51
07/01/2013 1 #5 Women Strawweight 9-2-0
51
04/01/2013   #4 Women Strawweight 9-2-0
51
01/01/2013   #4 Women Strawweight 8-2-0
51
10/01/2012 2 #4 Women Strawweight 7-2-0
50
07/01/2012 2 #6 Women Strawweight 6-2-0
38
04/01/2012   #8 Women Strawweight 6-2-0
38
01/01/2012 2 #8 Women Strawweight 6-2-0
38
10/01/2011 1 #10 Women Strawweight 5-2-0
32
07/01/2011 NR #9 Women Strawweight 5-2-0
32
04/01/2011 2 #10 Women Flyweight 4-1-0
23
01/01/2011 NR #8 Women Flyweight 4-1-0
23
10/01/2010 NR #12 Women Strawweight 3-1-0
27
07/01/2010 NR #12 Women Flyweight 2-0-0
18


A fighter's rank (US) state is assigned based on the state that the fighter most frequently fought in professionally, within the past three years. If there is a tie, the most recent state is used. The Win-Loss-Draw record for the fighter in the "Big Leagues". The Big Leagues refer to the top organizations based on a statistical analysis we performed. Some organizations were counted as one, due to mergers, etc. A quality performance is a fight in which the fighter fought an acceptable opponent, and substantiated their current rating (at the time) based on the outcome. At it's most basic level, one can equate "combat age" to "dog years" in that it will mirror the basic human lifecycle. With this computation, we expect fighters to hit their respective "peak" in the years that your typical adult "peaks" in life, somewhere between 25 and 40. We will expect most fighters to start their descent at some point in their 40s and be far removed from their peak by 60. This is an experimental metric that attempts to reflect a fighter's recent opposition quality. The metric goes back 1,080 days, and looks at all the fighter's opponents' W-L-D records within a window of 540 days before, and 540 days after their respective bout(s) with the fighter. All of the records are added up and the cumulative win percentage is presented by this metric in a "strength of schedule" format. These ranking sets have been generated by a recent version of the software, using recent data and will not match previously published issues of the rankings, especially since a majority of these generated sets are for dates much earlier than the site’s inception.
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