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Justin Tafa

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Rank State: Nevada
Age: 31
Last 5: W NC W L L
Association: NTG Fight & Fitness
Pro Debut Date: 2017-05-20
Pro Record: 7-5-0
Current Ranking:
#128 Heavyweight
'Big League' Record: 4-5-0
Last 3 Years: 2-2-0
Win Finish %: 100%
Combat Age: 34
Quality Perf. %: 66.7%
Last Quality Perf.: 2023-09-09
540 Metric: .688
Rating Points: 44
Highest Quarterly Ranking: 1/01/2024

#59 Heavyweight
Last Fight Date: 2/08/2025 [UFC]
Last Opponent: [#89 HW] Tallison Teixeira
Opponent's Last 5: W W W W W
UFC Record: 4-5-0 , 1 NC
Octagon Time: 0:54:35
Longest Win Streak: 3 (2021-2023)
UFC Debut: 2019-10-05
Last UFC Fight: 2025-02-08

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

  Opponent Outcome
L Tallison Teixeira
#157 Heavyweight 		TKO (Knee to the Body and Elbows)
Round 1
  UFC 312 - Du Plessis vs. Strickland 2
Saturday, February 8th 2025
L Karl Williams
#68 Heavyweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
  UFC on ESPN 53 - Ribas vs. Namajunas
Saturday, March 23rd 2024
W Austen Lane
#87 Heavyweight 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1
  UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland
Saturday, September 9th 2023
NC Austen Lane
#81 Heavyweight 		No Contest (Accidental Eye Poke)
Round 1
  UFC on ABC 5 - Emmett vs. Topuria
Saturday, June 24th 2023
W Parker Porter
#92 Heavyweight 		KO (Punches)
Round 1
  UFC 284 - Makhachev vs. Volkanovski
Saturday, February 11th 2023
W Harry Hunsucker
#163 Heavyweight 		KO (Head Kick)
Round 1
  UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus
Saturday, December 18th 2021
L Jared Vanderaa
#68 Heavyweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
  UFC Fight Night 188 - Font vs. Garbrandt
Saturday, May 22nd 2021
L Carlos Felipe
#85 Heavyweight 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
  UFC on ABC 1: Holloway vs. Kattar
Saturday, January 16th 2021
W Juan Adams
#144 Heavyweight 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1
  UFC 247: Jones vs. Reyes
Saturday, February 8th 2020
L Yorgan De Castro
#155 Heavyweight 		KO (Punch)
Round 1
  UFC 243 - Whittaker vs. Adesanya
Saturday, October 5th 2019
W David Taumoepeau TKO (Punches)
Round 2
  XFC 41
Friday, May 24th 2019
W Jeremy Joiner TKO
Round 1
  XFC 36: Joiner vs Tafa
Saturday, July 28th 2018
W Dylan Tiaaleaiga TKO (Punches)
Round 2
  XFC 30 - Conflict of Interest
Saturday, May 20th 2017
  Opponent Event Outcome
L Tallison Teixeira
#157 Heavyweight 		  UFC 312 - Du Plessis vs. Strickland 2
Saturday, February 8th 2025 		TKO (Knee to the Body and Elbows)
Round 1
L Karl Williams
#68 Heavyweight 		  UFC on ESPN 53 - Ribas vs. Namajunas
Saturday, March 23rd 2024 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
W Austen Lane
#87 Heavyweight 		  UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland
Saturday, September 9th 2023 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1
NC Austen Lane
#81 Heavyweight 		  UFC on ABC 5 - Emmett vs. Topuria
Saturday, June 24th 2023 		No Contest (Accidental Eye Poke)
Round 1
W Parker Porter
#92 Heavyweight 		  UFC 284 - Makhachev vs. Volkanovski
Saturday, February 11th 2023 		KO (Punches)
Round 1
W Harry Hunsucker
#163 Heavyweight 		  UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus
Saturday, December 18th 2021 		KO (Head Kick)
Round 1
L Jared Vanderaa
#68 Heavyweight 		  UFC Fight Night 188 - Font vs. Garbrandt
Saturday, May 22nd 2021 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
L Carlos Felipe
#85 Heavyweight 		  UFC on ABC 1: Holloway vs. Kattar
Saturday, January 16th 2021 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
W Juan Adams
#144 Heavyweight 		  UFC 247: Jones vs. Reyes
Saturday, February 8th 2020 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1
L Yorgan De Castro
#155 Heavyweight 		  UFC 243 - Whittaker vs. Adesanya
Saturday, October 5th 2019 		KO (Punch)
Round 1
W David Taumoepeau   XFC 41
Friday, May 24th 2019 		TKO (Punches)
Round 2
W Jeremy Joiner   XFC 36: Joiner vs Tafa
Saturday, July 28th 2018 		TKO
Round 1
W Dylan Tiaaleaiga   XFC 30 - Conflict of Interest
Saturday, May 20th 2017 		TKO (Punches)
Round 2

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 8 #89 Heavyweight 7-4-0
59
10/01/2024 6 #81 Heavyweight 7-4-0
60
07/01/2024   #75 Heavyweight 7-4-0
61
04/01/2024 16 #75 Heavyweight 7-4-0
61
01/01/2024 3 #59 Heavyweight 7-3-0
76
10/01/2023 32 #62 Heavyweight 7-3-0
76
07/01/2023 5 #94 Heavyweight 6-3-0
55
04/01/2023 43 #89 Heavyweight 6-3-0
55
01/01/2023 8 #132 Heavyweight 5-3-0
34
10/01/2022 3 #124 Heavyweight 5-3-0
35
07/01/2022 5 #121 Heavyweight 5-3-0
35
04/01/2022 2 #116 Heavyweight 5-3-0
35
01/01/2022 27 #118 Heavyweight 5-3-0
35
10/01/2021 6 #145 Heavyweight 4-3-0
28
07/01/2021 31 #139 Heavyweight 4-3-0
28
04/01/2021 17 #108 Heavyweight 4-2-0
30
01/01/2021 13 #125 Heavyweight 4-1-0
30
10/01/2020 6 #138 Heavyweight 4-1-0
30
07/01/2020 1 #144 Heavyweight 4-1-0
30
04/01/2020 NR #143 Heavyweight 4-1-0
30
10/01/2019 2 #213 Heavyweight 3-0-0
22
07/01/2019 NR #211 Heavyweight 3-0-0
22


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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