Justin Tafa
“Bad Man”
HeavyweightActive
Career record
7–5–0
wins–losses–draws
UFC record
4–5–0
as stored in the database
Wins by
4KO0SUB0DEC
knockout · submission · decision
Losses by
2KO0SUB3DEC
knockout · submission · decision
Bio & physicals
- Date of birth
- 1993-12-13 · age 32
- Height
- 6′ 0″ (72 in)
- Reach
- 74 in
- Leg reach
- 40 in
- Stance
- Southpaw
- Country
- New Zealand
- Hometown
- West Auckland, New Zealand
- Gym / team
- Tafa Gang
- Octagon debut
- 2019-10-05
Striking & grappling
- Strikes landed per minute
- 4.05
- Striking accuracy
- 54%
- Strikes absorbed per minute
- 5.11
- Striking defence
- 47%
- Takedown average
- 0.00
- Takedown accuracy
- 0%
- Takedown defence
- 53%
- Submission average
- 0.00
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
10 recorded · newest first| Date | Opponent | Result | Method | Weight class | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-08 | Tallison Teixeira | Loss | TKO · R1 · 0:35 | Heavyweight | UFC 312: Du Plessis vs. Strickland 2 |
| 2024-03-23 | Karl Williams | Loss | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Ribas vs. Namajunas |
| 2023-09-09 | Austen Lane | Win | TKO · R1 · 1:22 | Heavyweight | UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland |
| 2023-06-24 | Austen Lane | No winner recorded | CNC · R1 · 0:29 | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Topuria |
| 2023-02-11 | Parker Porter | Win | TKO · R1 · 1:06 | Heavyweight | UFC 284: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski |
| 2021-12-18 | Harry Hunsucker | Win | TKO · R1 · 1:53 | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus |
| 2021-05-22 | Jared Vanderaa | Loss | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Garbrandt |
| 2021-01-16 | Carlos Felipe | Loss | Split Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Heavyweight | UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Kattar |
| 2020-02-08 | Juan Adams | Win | TKO · R1 · 1:59 | Heavyweight | UFC 247: Jones vs. Reyes |
| 2019-10-05 | Yorgan De Castro | Loss | TKO · R1 · 2:10 | Heavyweight | UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya |
Bouts are matched to this fighter on ID, never on name — 10 rows in the archive list Justin Tafa 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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