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Rafael Lovato Jr.

  Rafael Lovato Jr.'s profile at Sherdog 

Rafael Lovato Jr.'s profile at Tapology 

Association: Lovato's School of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Pro Debut Date: 2014-09-26
Pro Record: 11-0-0
Win Finish %: 81.8%
Quality Perf. %: 81.8%
Last Ranked: 1/01/2024

#24 Light Heavyweight

Highest Quarterly Ranking: 4/01/2020

#4 Middleweight

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

  Opponent Outcome
W Taiga Iwasaki Submission (Kimura)
Round 1
  IGF - Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye x Ganryujima
Wednesday, December 28th 2022
W Gegard Mousasi
#3 Middleweight 		Decision (Majority)
Round 5
  Bellator 223 - Mousasi vs. Lovato Jr.
Saturday, June 22nd 2019
W John Salter
#29 Middleweight 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 3
  Bellator 205 - McKee vs. Macapa
Friday, September 21st 2018
W Gerald Harris
#235 Welterweight 		Submission (Armbar)
Round 1
  Bellator 198 - Fedor vs. Mir
Saturday, April 28th 2018
W Chris Honeycutt
#47 Middleweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
  Bellator 189 - Budd vs. Blencowe 2
Friday, December 1st 2017
W Mike Rhodes
#80 Middleweight 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 1
  Bellator 181 - Campos vs. Girtz 3
Friday, July 14th 2017
W Charles Hackmann TKO (Kick, Knees and Punches)
Round 1
  Bellator 174 - Coenen vs. Budd
Friday, March 3rd 2017
W Cortez Coleman
#176 Middleweight 		Submission (Armbar)
Round 3
  LFC 62 - Legacy Fighting Championship 62
Friday, November 11th 2016
W Marcelo Nunes
#298 Middleweight 		TKO (Punches)
Round 2
  Legacy FC 54: Lovato Jr. vs. Nunes
Friday, April 22nd 2016
W Kevin Holland
#545 Welterweight 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 1
  LFC 46 - Legacy Fighting Championship 46
Friday, October 2nd 2015
W Canaan Grigsby Submission (Arm-Triangle Choke)
Round 1
  LFC 35 - Legacy Fighting Championship 35
Friday, September 26th 2014
  Opponent Event Outcome
W Taiga Iwasaki   IGF - Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye x Ganryujima
Wednesday, December 28th 2022 		Submission (Kimura)
Round 1
W Gegard Mousasi
#3 Middleweight 		  Bellator 223 - Mousasi vs. Lovato Jr.
Saturday, June 22nd 2019 		Decision (Majority)
Round 5
W John Salter
#29 Middleweight 		  Bellator 205 - McKee vs. Macapa
Friday, September 21st 2018 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 3
W Gerald Harris
#235 Welterweight 		  Bellator 198 - Fedor vs. Mir
Saturday, April 28th 2018 		Submission (Armbar)
Round 1
W Chris Honeycutt
#47 Middleweight 		  Bellator 189 - Budd vs. Blencowe 2
Friday, December 1st 2017 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
W Mike Rhodes
#80 Middleweight 		  Bellator 181 - Campos vs. Girtz 3
Friday, July 14th 2017 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 1
W Charles Hackmann   Bellator 174 - Coenen vs. Budd
Friday, March 3rd 2017 		TKO (Kick, Knees and Punches)
Round 1
W Cortez Coleman
#176 Middleweight 		  LFC 62 - Legacy Fighting Championship 62
Friday, November 11th 2016 		Submission (Armbar)
Round 3
W Marcelo Nunes
#298 Middleweight 		  Legacy FC 54: Lovato Jr. vs. Nunes
Friday, April 22nd 2016 		TKO (Punches)
Round 2
W Kevin Holland
#545 Welterweight 		  LFC 46 - Legacy Fighting Championship 46
Friday, October 2nd 2015 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 1
W Canaan Grigsby   LFC 35 - Legacy Fighting Championship 35
Friday, September 26th 2014 		Submission (Arm-Triangle Choke)
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 3 #24 Light Heavyweight 11-0-0
197
10/01/2023 1 #21 Light Heavyweight 11-0-0
203
07/01/2023 1 #22 Light Heavyweight 11-0-0
206
04/01/2023   #21 Light Heavyweight 11-0-0
208
01/01/2023 NR #21 Light Heavyweight 11-0-0
211
07/01/2020 2 #6 Middleweight 10-0-0
1021
04/01/2020   #4 Middleweight 10-0-0
1050
01/01/2020   #4 Middleweight 10-0-0
1050
10/01/2019   #4 Middleweight 10-0-0
1050
07/01/2019 21 #4 Middleweight 10-0-0
1050
04/01/2019   #25 Middleweight 9-0-0
246
01/01/2019 1 #25 Middleweight 9-0-0
246
10/01/2018 10 #26 Middleweight 9-0-0
246
07/01/2018 9 #36 Middleweight 8-0-0
152
04/01/2018 1 #45 Middleweight 7-0-0
140
01/01/2018 29 #44 Middleweight 7-0-0
140
10/01/2017 NR #73 Middleweight 6-0-0
88
07/01/2017 14 #142 Light Heavyweight 5-0-0
36
04/01/2017 NR #128 Light Heavyweight 5-0-0
36
01/01/2017 53 #118 Middleweight 4-0-0
58
10/01/2016 2 #171 Middleweight 3-0-0
44
07/01/2016 37 #169 Middleweight 3-0-0
44
04/01/2016 7 #206 Middleweight 2-0-0
36
01/01/2016 78 #199 Middleweight 2-0-0
36
10/01/2015 15 #277 Middleweight 1-0-0
28
07/01/2015 6 #292 Middleweight 1-0-0
29
04/01/2015 2 #286 Middleweight 1-0-0
29
01/01/2015 6 #288 Middleweight 1-0-0
29
10/01/2014 NR #282 Middleweight 1-0-0
29


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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