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Fernando Padilla

16–6 · 21 recorded bouts · 2015–2024

MMA record

16–6

Fernando Padilla finished 88% of 16 wins inside the distance — the 88th percentile for featherweight MMA, where the median is 65%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

20102020win v Kaleb Gonzales, 2015, submissionwin v José Landeros González, 2015, submissionwin v Carlos Rivera, 2015, decisionwin v Edgar Díaz Guzmán, 2016, submissionwin v Keni Harrison, 2016, submissionwin v Jeff Mesa, 2017, kowin v Darrick Minner, 2017, submissionwin v Ryan Fillingame, 2017, kowin v Sergio Perez, 2017, submissionloss v Dan Ige, 2017, decisionwin v Fard Muhammad, 2018, submissionloss v Kurt Kinser, 2018, decisionloss v Talison Soares Costa, 2018, decisionloss v Spike Carlyle, 2019, decisionwin v Donald Sanchez, 2019, kowin v Cameron Graves, 2021, kowin v Nate Richardson, 2021, decisionloss v Kyle Nelson, 2023, decisionwin v Julian Erosa, 2023, koloss v Sean Woodson, 2024, kowin v Luis Pajuelo, 2024, submission
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2015–2024

SOURCE·Fernando Padilla — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-18

How this record is compiled

  1. Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-18. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
  2. A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
  3. A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
  4. Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
  5. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 222 featherweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Bout record

Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2024 L Sean Woodson KO/TKO1
2024 W Luis Pajuelo Submission1
2023 L Kyle Nelson Decision3
2023 W Julian Erosa KO/TKO1
2021 W Cameron Graves KO/TKO2
2021 W Nate Richardson Decision3
2019 L Spike Carlyle Decision3
2019 W Donald Sanchez KO/TKO2
2018 W Fard Muhammad Submission3
2018 L Kurt Kinser Decision3
2018 L Talison Soares Costa Decision3
2017 W Jeff Mesa KO/TKO1
2017 W Darrick Minner Submission1
2017 W Ryan Fillingame KO/TKO1
2017 W Sergio Perez Submission1
2017 L Dan Ige Decision3
2016 W Edgar Díaz Guzmán Submission1
2016 W Keni Harrison Submission1
2015 W Kaleb Gonzales Submission1
2015 W José Landeros González Submission1
2015 W Carlos Rivera Decision3

4 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Fernando Padilla — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-18

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height73″ (185.4 cm)
Stance—
DivisionFeatherweight MMA
Most active decade2010s — 15 of 21 dated bouts
CountryMexico

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Fernando Padilla, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

2020 win vs Kaleb Gonzales (2015)win vs José Landeros González (2015)win vs Carlos Rivera (2015)win vs Edgar Díaz Guzmán (2016)win vs Keni Harrison (2016)win vs Jeff Mesa (2017)win vs Darrick Minner (2017)win vs Ryan Fillingame (2017)win vs Sergio Perez (2017)loss vs Dan Ige (2017)win vs Fard Muhammad (2018)loss vs Kurt Kinser (2018)loss vs Talison Soares Costa (2018)loss vs Spike Carlyle (2019)win vs Donald Sanchez (2019)win vs Cameron Graves (2021)win vs Nate Richardson (2021)loss vs Kyle Nelson (2023)win vs Julian Erosa (2023)loss vs Sean Woodson (2024)win vs Luis Pajuelo (2024)
winlossdraw / NC2015–2024

Record

MMA record

16–6

22 bouts on record

Finish rate

88%

of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight MMA median 65%, 88th percentile

KO/TKO: 5 (31%)Submission: 9 (56%)Decision: 2 (13%)
  • KO/TKO 31%
  • Submission 56%
  • Decision 13%

The career, bout by bout

21 recorded bouts from 2015 to 2024. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

10y

2015–2024

Longest unbeaten run

9

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2017

5 bouts

Recorded bouts

21

21 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Fernando Padilla's record?
16–6 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 21 bouts individually.
Does a no contest change a record here?
No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

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