Ion Cutelaba
“The Hulk”
Light HeavyweightActive
Career record
20–12–1
wins–losses–draws
UFC record
9–11–1
as stored in the database
Wins by
4KO2SUB3DEC
knockout · submission · decision
Losses by
3KO4SUB3DEC
knockout · submission · decision
Bio & physicals
- Date of birth
- 1993-12-14 · age 32
- Height
- 6′ 1″ (73 in)
- Reach
- 75 in
- Leg reach
- 41 in
- Stance
- Southpaw
- Country
- Moldova
- Hometown
- Moldova
- Gym / team
- CSA Team Moldova
- Octagon debut
- 2016-06-18
Striking & grappling
- Strikes landed per minute
- 4.13
- Striking accuracy
- 43%
- Strikes absorbed per minute
- 3.42
- Striking defence
- 46%
- Takedown average
- 4.02
- Takedown accuracy
- 51%
- Takedown defence
- 76%
- Submission average
- 0.30
Career averages as stored. A dash is a value the database does not hold; a zero is a recorded zero. Nothing on this page is computed from the bouts below.
Bout history
21 recorded · newest first| Date | Opponent | Result | Method | Weight class | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-20 | Navajo Stirling | Loss | TKO · R2 · 3:23 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Horiguchi 2 |
| 2026-03-14 | Oumar Sy | Win | Submission · R1 · 4:24 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Vallejos |
| 2025-05-10 | Modestas Bukauskas | Loss | Split Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Light Heavyweight | UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena |
| 2025-02-22 | Ibo Aslan | Win | Submission · R1 · 2:51 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Song |
| 2024-09-28 | Ivan Erslan | Win | Split Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Saint Denis |
| 2024-03-09 | Philipe Lins | Loss | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Light Heavyweight | UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2 |
| 2023-04-15 | Tanner Boser | Win | TKO · R1 · 2:05 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Allen |
| 2022-11-19 | Kennedy Nzechukwu | Loss | TKO · R2 · 1:02 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Nzechukwu vs. Cutelaba |
| 2022-09-10 | Johnny Walker | Loss | Submission · R1 · 4:37 | Light Heavyweight | UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson |
| 2022-05-14 | Ryan Spann | Loss | Submission · R1 · 2:22 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Rakic |
| 2021-09-18 | Devin Clark | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann |
| 2021-05-01 | Dustin Jacoby | No winner recorded | Draw · R3 · 5:00 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Prochazka |
| 2020-10-24 | Magomed Ankalaev | Loss | TKO · R1 · 4:19 | Light Heavyweight | UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje |
| 2020-02-29 | Magomed Ankalaev | Loss | TKO · R1 · 0:38 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Benavidez vs. Figueiredo |
| 2019-09-28 | Khalil Rountree Jr. | Win | TKO · R1 · 2:35 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Cannonier |
| 2019-04-27 | Glover Teixeira | Loss | Submission · R2 · 3:37 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Hermansson |
| 2018-07-28 | Gadzhimurad Antigulov | Win | TKO · R1 · 4:25 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Alvarez vs. Poirier 2 |
| 2017-06-10 | Henrique da Silva | Win | TKO · R1 · 0:22 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Hunt |
| 2016-12-03 | Jared Cannonier | Loss | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Light Heavyweight | The Ultimate Fighter: Tournament of Champions Finale |
| 2016-10-01 | Jonathan Wilson | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson |
| 2016-06-18 | Misha Cirkunov | Loss | Submission · R3 · 1:22 | Light Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs Thompson |
Bouts are matched to this fighter on ID, never on name — 21 rows in the archive list Ion Cutelaba as one of the two fighters. One of them does not record a winner that resolves to either fighter, so it is shown as such rather than being assigned a result. The bout count here is a count of rows in this archive and will not always equal the career record above, which is a separate stored field. The database also holds an Elo rating for each fighter; it is a current rating that already contains the results below, so it is not published on this page.
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