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Junior Tafa

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Rank State: Nevada
Age: 28
Last 5: L W L L W
Association: NTG Fight & Fitness
Pro Debut Date: 2022-07-09
Pro Record: 6-3-0
Current Ranking:
#81 Light Heavyweight
'Big League' Record: 3-3-0
Last 3 Years: 6-3-0
Win Finish %: 100%
Combat Age: 28
Quality Perf. %: 55.6%
Last Quality Perf.: 2024-10-12
540 Metric: .619
Rating Points: 57
Highest Quarterly Ranking: 7/01/2024

#86 Heavyweight
Last Fight Date: 10/12/2024 [UFC]
Last Opponent: [NR] Sean Sharaf
Next Fight: UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo
Next Opponent: [#144 LHW] George Tokkos
Last Loss Date: 8/17/2024
Last Loss: [#51 HW] Valter Walker
Opponent's Last 5: W W L W W
UFC Record: 2-3-0
Octagon Time: 0:34:45
UFC Debut: 2023-04-22
Last UFC Fight: 2024-10-12

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

  Opponent Outcome
W Sean Sharaf
#178 Light Heavyweight 		TKO (Punches)
Round 2
  UFC Fight Night 244 - Royval vs. Taira
Saturday, October 12th 2024
L Valter Walker
#106 Heavyweight 		Submission (Heel Hook)
Round 1
  UFC 305 - Du Plessis vs. Adesanya
Saturday, August 17th 2024
L Marcos Rogerio de Lima
#24 Heavyweight 		TKO (Leg Kick and Punches)
Round 2
  UFC 298 - Volkanovski vs. Topuria
Saturday, February 17th 2024
W Parker Porter
#97 Heavyweight 		KO (Punch)
Round 1
  UFC Fight Night 225 - Holloway vs. Korean ...
Saturday, August 26th 2023
L Mohammed Usman
#110 Heavyweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
  UFC Fight Night 222 - Pavlovich vs. Blaydes
Saturday, April 22nd 2023
W Tsuyoshi Kamiyama
#136 Heavyweight 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1
  Rizin FF - Rizin 40: Bellator MMA vs. Rizin
Saturday, December 31st 2022
W Nicolas Djurdjevic TKO (Punches)
Round 1
  Brave CF 66 - Brave Combat Federation 66
Saturday, November 26th 2022
W Kelvin Fitial KO (Punches)
Round 2
  HFS - Hex Fight Series 23
Friday, August 5th 2022
W Taisei Sekino TKO (Punches)
Round 1
  BP 1 - Beatdown Promotions 1
Saturday, July 9th 2022
  Opponent Event Outcome
W Sean Sharaf
#178 Light Heavyweight 		  UFC Fight Night 244 - Royval vs. Taira
Saturday, October 12th 2024 		TKO (Punches)
Round 2
L Valter Walker
#106 Heavyweight 		  UFC 305 - Du Plessis vs. Adesanya
Saturday, August 17th 2024 		Submission (Heel Hook)
Round 1
L Marcos Rogerio de Lima
#24 Heavyweight 		  UFC 298 - Volkanovski vs. Topuria
Saturday, February 17th 2024 		TKO (Leg Kick and Punches)
Round 2
W Parker Porter
#97 Heavyweight 		  UFC Fight Night 225 - Holloway vs. Korean ...
Saturday, August 26th 2023 		KO (Punch)
Round 1
L Mohammed Usman
#110 Heavyweight 		  UFC Fight Night 222 - Pavlovich vs. Blaydes
Saturday, April 22nd 2023 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
W Tsuyoshi Kamiyama
#136 Heavyweight 		  Rizin FF - Rizin 40: Bellator MMA vs. Rizin
Saturday, December 31st 2022 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1
W Nicolas Djurdjevic   Brave CF 66 - Brave Combat Federation 66
Saturday, November 26th 2022 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1
W Kelvin Fitial   HFS - Hex Fight Series 23
Friday, August 5th 2022 		KO (Punches)
Round 2
W Taisei Sekino   BP 1 - Beatdown Promotions 1
Saturday, July 9th 2022 		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
01/01/2025 5 #114 Heavyweight 6-3-0
47
10/01/2024 33 #119 Heavyweight 5-3-0
41
07/01/2024 2 #86 Heavyweight 5-2-0
53
04/01/2024   #88 Heavyweight 5-2-0
53
01/01/2024 5 #88 Heavyweight 5-1-0
53
10/01/2023 64 #93 Heavyweight 5-1-0
53
07/01/2023 32 #157 Heavyweight 4-1-0
32
04/01/2023 12 #125 Heavyweight 4-0-0
40
01/01/2023 NR #113 Heavyweight 4-0-0
40


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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