Youssef Zalal
“The Moroccan Devil”
Featherweight#8Active
Career record
18–6–1
wins–losses–draws
UFC record
8–4–1
as stored in the database
Wins by
4KO10SUB4DEC
knockout · submission · decision
Losses by
0KO0SUB3DEC
knockout · submission · decision
Bio & physicals
- Date of birth
- 1996-09-04 · age 29
- Height
- 5′ 10″ (70 in)
- Reach
- 72 in
- Leg reach
- 39 in
- Stance
- Switch
- Country
- Morocco
- Hometown
- Casablanca, Morocco
- Gym / team
- Factory X
- Octagon debut
- 2020-02-08
Striking & grappling
- Strikes landed per minute
- 2.78
- Striking accuracy
- 50%
- Strikes absorbed per minute
- 1.79
- Striking defence
- 64%
- Takedown average
- 1.84
- Takedown accuracy
- 31%
- Takedown defence
- 55%
- Submission average
- 1.30
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
13 recorded · newest first| Date | Opponent | Result | Method | Weight class | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-25 | Aljamain Sterling | Loss | Unanimous Decision · R5 · 5:00 | Featherweight | UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal |
| 2025-10-04 | Josh Emmett | Win | Submission · R1 · 1:38 | Featherweight | UFC 320: Ankalaev vs. Pereira 2 |
| 2025-02-15 | Calvin Kattar | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Featherweight | UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Rodrigues |
| 2024-11-02 | Jack Shore | Win | Submission · R2 · 0:59 | Featherweight | UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Albazi |
| 2024-08-10 | Jarno Errens | Win | Submission · R1 · 3:52 | Featherweight | UFC Fight Night: Tybura vs. Spivac 2 |
| 2024-03-23 | Billy Quarantillo | Win | Submission · R2 · 1:50 | Featherweight | UFC Fight Night: Ribas vs. Namajunas |
| 2022-08-13 | Da'Mon Blackshear | No winner recorded | Draw · R3 · 5:00 | Bantamweight | UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Cruz |
| 2021-06-05 | Sean Woodson | Loss | Split Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Featherweight | UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Sakai |
| 2021-02-06 | SeungWoo Choi | Loss | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Featherweight | UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov |
| 2020-10-10 | Ilia Topuria | Loss | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Featherweight | UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. Sandhagen |
| 2020-08-08 | Peter Barrett | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Featherweight | UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik |
| 2020-06-27 | Jordan Griffin | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Featherweight | UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Hooker |
| 2020-02-08 | Austin Lingo | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Featherweight | UFC 247: Jones vs. Reyes |
Bouts are matched to this fighter on ID, never on name — 13 rows in the archive list Youssef Zalal 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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