Paulo Costa
16–4 · 22 recorded bouts · 2012–2026
16–4
Paulo Costa finished 81% of 16 wins inside the distance — the 54th percentile for light heavyweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Paulo Costa — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-21
How this record is compiled
- Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-21. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one. - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 183 light heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | W | Azamat Murzakanov | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2025 | W | Roman Kopylov | Decision | 3 |
| 2024 | L | Sean Strickland | Decision | 5 |
| 2024 | L | Robert Whittaker | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | W | Luke Rockhold | Decision | 3 |
| 2021 | L | Marvin Vettori | Decision | 5 |
| 2020 | L | Israel Adesanya | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2019 | W | Yoel Romero | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Uriah Hall | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Johny Hendricks | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Oluwale Bamgbose | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Garreth McLellan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Adriano Balby de Araujo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Eduardo Ramón | Submission | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Bruno Assis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Wagner Silva Gomes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Gérson da Conceição | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | L | Márcio Alexandre Jr. | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Fábio Moreira | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Ademilson Borges | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Téo Esteves | KO/TKO | 1 |
| undated | W | José Roberto | Submission | — |
11 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Paulo Costa — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-21
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 14 of 21 dated bouts | |
| Country | Brazil |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Paulo Costa, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
16–4
20 bouts on record
Finish rate
81%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 54th percentile
The career, bout by bout
22 recorded bouts from 2012 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
2012–2026
Longest unbeaten run
9
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2017
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
22
21 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Paulo Costa's record?
- 16–4 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 22 bouts individually.
- How many of Paulo Costa's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 22. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
- 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.
Where this record leads
The 185 light heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Costa sits inside.
185 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA14 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Luke Rockhold vs Paulo CostaA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2022 Longest unbeaten runsPaulo Costa went 9 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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