List of Irish UFC fighters

Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is a mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion, founded in 1993 by Art Davie and Rorion Gracie. The organization was purchased from its parent company SEG in 2001 by Zuffa LLC, a promotional company owned by Las Vegas casino magnates, Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta and managed by Dana White (current president of operations).[1] Since its inception, and through its current Zuffa management, the UFC has remained one of the more dominant MMA promotions in the world, playing host to a wide field of MMA fighters.[2]

This list provides an up-to-date roster of all Irish fighters currently competing or have previously competed under the UFC promotional banner.[note 1][note 2][note 3][note 4]

The ISO listed next to a Fighters name as well as their birthplace and where they fight out of is determined by information displayed on UFC broadcasts.[note 5]

The team a Fighter trains with is based on who primarily corners them during their professional bouts in the UFC.

Each fight record has four categories: wins, losses, draws, and no-contests (NC).[3] All fight records in this article are displayed in that order, with fights resulting in a no-contest listed in parentheses.[note 6]

Heavyweights (265 lb, 120 kg)

ISO Name Nickname UFC record Birthplace Fighting Out Of Team UFC Debut Notes
NIR Colin Robinson Big C 0–2 Ballymena, Northern Ireland Antrim, Northern Ireland UFR Fight Team/Next Generation Northern Ireland 16/06/2007

Welterweights (170 lb, 77 kg)

ISO Name Nickname UFC record Birthplace Fighting Out Of Team UFC Debut Notes
IRE Kiefer Crosbie BDK 0–3 North Inner City Dublin, Ireland North Inner City Dublin, Ireland SBG Ireland 09/09/2023
IRE Dean Barry The Sniper 0–1 Dublin, Ireland Dublin, Ireland Team Ryano 23/04/2022
IRE Ian Machado Garry The Future 17–1 Dublin, Ireland Dublin, Ireland By Way Of Belo Horizonte, Brazil Chute Boxe Diego Lima

Kill Cliff FC

 06/11/2021
IRE

NIR

 Rhys McKee Skeletor 1–4 Ballymena, Northern Ireland Ballymena, Northern Ireland Fight Academy Ireland

Next Generation Northern Ireland

 25/07/2020
IRE Charlie Ward Relentless 0–2 Portlaoise, Ireland Dublin, Ireland By Way Of Mountmellick, Ireland SBG Ireland 19/11/2016
IRE Cathal Pendred The Punisher 4–2 Boston, Massachusetts Dublin, Ireland SBG Ireland 19/07/2014
IRE Tom Egan The Tank 0–1 Dublin, Ireland Dublin, Ireland SBG Ireland 17/01/2009
  • First Irish UFC Fighter - competed at UFC 93
IRE Stevie

Lynch

 The Smiling Assassin 0–1 Belfast, Northern Ireland Antrim, Northern Ireland UFR Fight Team 16/06/2007
  • First Northern Irish UFC Fighter - competed in UFC 72

Lightweights (155 lb, 70 kg)

ISO Name Nickname UFC record Birthplace Fighting Out Of Team UFC Debut Notes
IRE Richie Smullen 0-1 Dublin, Ireland Dublin, Ireland SBG Ireland 06/07/2018
RUS

IRE

 Artem Lobov The Russian Hammer 2-5 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Dublin, Ireland SBG Ireland 11/12/2015
IRE Joe Duffy Irish 4–4 Donegal, Ireland Donegal, Ireland Tristar Gym 14/03/2015
IRE Conor McGregor The Notorious 10–5 Dublin, Ireland Dublin, Ireland SBG Ireland 06/04/2013
NIR Norman Parke Stormin 5–3–1 Bushmills, Northern Ireland Bushmills, Northern Ireland


San Diego, California By Way Of Bushmills, Northern Ireland

Ballymoney, Northern Ireland

 Next Generation Northern Ireland 14/12/2012

Featherweights (145 lb, 65 kg)

ISO Name Nickname UFC record Birthplace Fighting Out Of Team UFC Debut Notes
IRE Paul Redmond Redser 0–2 Dublin, Ireland Dublin, Ireland Team Ryano 24/01/2015
  • Released from UFC November 2015[6]

Bantamweights (135 lb, 61 kg)

ISO Name Nickname UFC record Birthplace Fighting Out Of Team UFC Debut Notes
IRE Caolan Loughran The Don 2-2 Tyrone, Northern Ireland Tyrone, Northern Ireland Team Kaobon 02/09/2023

Flyweights (125 lb, 56 kg)

ISO Name Nickname UFC record Birthplace Fighting Out Of Team UFC Debut Notes
IRE Patrick Holohan The Hooligan 3–2 Dublin, Ireland Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, Ireland

 SBG Ireland 19/07/2014
IRE Neil Seery 2Tap 3–4 Dublin, Ireland Dublin, Ireland Team Ryano 08/03/2014

Women's strawweights (115 lb, 52 kg)

ISO Name Nickname UFC record Birthplace Fighting Out Of Team UFC Debut Notes
IRE Shauna Bannon Mama B 2-2 Dublin, Ireland Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland Holohan Martial Arts 22/07/2023
IRE Aisling Daly Ais the Bash 2–1 Dublin, Ireland Dublin, Ireland SBG Ireland 12/12/2014
  • First Irish Female To Compete In The UFC

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Unless otherwise cited, all fighters listed are retrieved from ufc.com.
  2. ↑ All names presented are in accordance with UFC.com profiles and may include common nicknames or alternative spellings rather than birth names.
  3. ↑ Fighters are included on this list if they were born in Ireland (the Republic of Ireland/Northern Ireland) or if they have represented Ireland during their professional UFC career.
  4. ↑ Fighters are organized by weight class and within their weight class by their debut under the UFC promotion.
  5. ↑ Where a Fighter is born, fighting out of, and the flag they represent is provided by the UFC during live broadcasts.
  6. ↑ Unless otherwise cited, all records are retrieved from sherdog.com.

References

  1. ↑ Cliff Montgomery. "The History of the UFC - Part 1". ExtremeProSports.com. Archived from the original on April 4, 2023. Retrieved February 5, 2011.
  2. ↑ MMAjunkie.com Staff (December 23, 2010). "Sports-industry executives choose UFC as best positioned property for 2011". MMAjunkie.com. Archived from the original on October 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ Grant Waterman (October 2003). "MMA Scoring Guide". SFUK. Archived from the original on 2014-12-21.
  4. ↑ "Conor McGregor knocks out Alvarez to make UFC history – as it happened". theguardian.com. 13 November 2016.
  5. ↑ Doyle, Dave (13 December 2015). "UFC 194 results: Conor McGregor knocks out Jose Aldo in 13 seconds". MMA Fighting.
  6. ↑ Paul Dollery. "Irish fighter released by the UFC following consecutive defeats". The42.
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