Ilia Topuria Height 2026: How Tall Is Ilia Topuria?

Last updated: November 14, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Ilia Topuria is 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) tall. That is the UFC’s official listing — 67.00 inches on his athlete page — and it is the number every serious source agrees on. The 29-year-old Georgian-Spanish fighter built a two-division championship career at that height, knocking out men who stood inches taller than him, before losing for the first time in June 2026 on the White House lawn. He is 17-1 as a professional, a former featherweight and lightweight champion, and the No. 1 lightweight in the UFC rankings as of November 11, 2026.

The height question follows Topuria everywhere because his fighting style makes it look wrong. He walks opponents down, stands in the pocket, and knocks them out with short, heavy punches — the work of a man who should be giving up reach, not taking it away. Fans see a 5 ft 7 in fighter flattening 5 ft 11 in opponents and assume the listing must be wrong. It is not wrong. The reach is 69 inches (175 cm), two inches longer than his height, and the power is real. The confusion comes from the style, not the tape measure.

This profile answers the height question properly — the official number, the one source that says 5 ft 8 in, and how he stacks up against every champion he has faced — and then covers the career the number belongs to: the road from Halle to Alicante, the 8-0 run before the UFC, the Volkanovski and Holloway knockouts, the lightweight title, the first loss to Justin Gaethje, and the comeback he is planning for 2027.

Ilia Topuria Height 2026: The Short Answer

Ilia Topuria is 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) tall. The UFC lists him at 67.00 inches, with a reach of 69 inches (175 cm) and a fighting weight of 155 lbs. He was born on January 21, 1997, in Halle Westfalen, Germany, which makes him 29 years old in 2026. His professional record is 17-1, with seven knockouts, eight submissions and two decisions.

If you have seen a page that says he is 5 ft 8 in, it is almost certainly pulling from Combat Edge, the one database that lists him an inch taller. Every other serious source — the UFC itself, Bloody Elbow, DAZN, ShortBox, StatsFight — says 5 ft 7 in. The inch matters to fans because Topuria fights like a bigger man, and because a 5 ft 8 in listing would make his knockouts of taller champions look slightly less remarkable. The official number is 5 ft 7 in, and the career he built at that height is the story of this profile.

Two other stale claims still circulate. Pages that call him “undefeated” or “17-0” were written before June 14, 2026, when Justin Gaethje handed him his first professional loss at UFC Freedom 250. Pages that call him the lightweight champion are out of date for the same reason — Gaethje took the belt that night. As of November 2026, Topuria is the No. 1 contender, recovering from four broken bones, and planning a return in early 2027.

The Official Number: 5 Ft 7 In (170 Cm)

The UFC’s athlete page is the primary source for a fighter’s listed measurements, because it is the number the promotion itself publishes for every bout. Topuria’s page lists height at 67.00 inches, reach at 69.00 inches, and weight at 155 lbs. Sixty-seven inches converts to 170.18 cm, which every outlet rounds to 170 cm. The reach converts to 175 cm. These are the numbers that appeared on the tale of the tape for UFC 317 in June 2025 and for UFC Freedom 250 in June 2026, and they have not changed across his career.

Bloody Elbow, in its June 2025 profile of Topuria, put it plainly: he “stands at five feet seven inches, equivalent to 170 cm” and “also has a reach of 69 inches (175 cm)”. DAZN’s tale of the tape for the Oliveira fight listed the same numbers — 5 ft 7 in, 69-inch reach. ShortBox, in a July 2025 piece built entirely around the height question, printed the same table: height 5 ft 7 in (170 cm), reach 69 in (175 cm). StatsFight and The Box Score, both drawing on UFCStats data, agree.

Then there is Combat Edge, which lists Topuria at 5 ft 8 in with the same 69-inch reach. It is the only source in the first two pages of search results that goes an inch higher, and it is worth saying why this profile does not follow it. Combat Edge is a fight database that aggregates records; the UFC, the promotion that weighs and measures the fighter, says 67 inches. When the primary source and five corroborating outlets agree against one database, the primary source wins. The 5 ft 8 in listing is recorded here so readers know where it comes from — and why it is not used.

The number also fits the rest of his career. Topuria fought at featherweight (145 lbs) from his debut until 2025, then moved to lightweight (155 lbs). A 5 ft 7 in frame at 155 lbs is compact and dense, and it explains the build that fans see in the octagon: thick through the shoulders, short limbs, heavy hands. He is not a tall lightweight. He is a short one who hits like a heavyweight, and that gap between the measurement and the damage is the whole point of his career.

How Topuria’s Height Compares in the Lightweight Division

At 5 ft 7 in, Topuria is short for a modern lightweight. The division’s recent champions mostly stand 5 ft 9 in or taller, and the men he has beaten for titles were all longer than him. The table below uses UFC-listed heights, so every number comes from the same source.

The pattern is the point. Volkanovski, the one champion shorter than Topuria, is the only man on the list who gave up height to him — and Topuria knocked him out in the second round. Oliveira gave up three inches and lasted 2 minutes 27 seconds. Holloway gave up four inches and was stopped in the third round, the first knockout loss of his career. Gaethje, also four inches taller, is the one who finally used the size: he kept Topuria at range, piled up damage across four rounds, and took the belt on the White House lawn. Height alone never decided these fights. Reach, timing and durability did — and for the first five years of his UFC career, Topuria’s timing beat everyone else’s reach.

For scale, the gap is wider still against the sport’s giants. Alex Pereira’s height profile covers the 6 ft 4 in light-heavyweight champion who stands nine inches taller than Topuria. Conor McGregor’s height profile covers the 5 ft 9 in former two-division champion — two inches taller, and the man whose two-division path Topuria was openly chasing. Islam Makhachev’s height profile covers the 5 ft 10 in former lightweight champion who avoided the Topuria fight by moving up to welterweight, and Dustin Poirier’s height profile covers the 5 ft 9 in veteran who retired in 2025 without ever sharing the octagon with him.

Reach, Weight and the Numbers Around the Height

Height is only one of three numbers on a fighter’s tale of the tape, and for Topuria the other two matter more. His reach is 69 inches (175 cm) — two inches longer than his height, a positive ape index that lets him land punches from a distance his frame does not suggest. His fighting weight is 155 lbs at lightweight, where he has competed since 2025, and 145 lbs at featherweight, where he spent the first decade of his career. He also fought once at bantamweight early on, in 2018, and once at lightweight in 2022, when he knocked out Jai Herbert at 155 lbs before returning to featherweight.

The reach number explains the knockouts. A 69-inch reach is ordinary for a lightweight — Oliveira’s is 74 inches, Holloway’s 69, Gaethje’s 70 — but Topuria closes distance so fast that the reach gap never settles. He walks forward behind a high guard, slips the jab, and throws short hooks and uppercuts from inside, where his opponent’s longer arms have no room to work. The Herbert fight is the cleanest example: Herbert, 6 ft 1 in, nearly finished Topuria with a head kick in the first round, and Topuria knocked him out in the second with a right hand thrown from a distance Herbert thought was safe. The reach is not the weapon. The footwork is.

The weight tells the other half of the story. Topuria spent his featherweight years cutting to 145 lbs from a walk-around weight that made the cut brutal — the missed weight at Cage Warriors in 2018, when he came in at 139.4 lbs for a 135 lbs bantamweight title fight, was the early warning. By 2025 he had outgrown the division. He vacated the featherweight belt in April 2025 and moved to lightweight permanently, where the extra 10 lbs let him carry the same power without the drain of the cut. The Oliveira knockout, two months later, was the payoff: a first-round finish at his natural weight, against a man three inches taller, for a second divisional title.

Early Life: Halle, Georgia and Alicante

Ilia Topuria was born on January 21, 1997, in Halle Westfalen, Germany, a town of about 20,000 people roughly 100 miles southwest of Berlin. His parents were Georgian refugees from Abkhazia, the breakaway region on Georgia’s Black Sea coast, and the family moved back to Georgia when Ilia was seven. It was in Georgia that he started Greco-Roman wrestling, the base that still shows in his game — the body locks, the trips, the way he controls opponents against the fence. He speaks Georgian, English and Spanish, and a little Mingrelian, the language of his family’s region.

At 15, the family moved again, this time to Alicante, on Spain’s Mediterranean coast. It was there that Topuria found the Climent Club, the gym that became his home, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, the art that became his first weapon. In May 2018, he and his older brother Aleksandre became the first Georgians to earn black belts in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He was 21. The belt mattered: the first four wins of his professional career all came by submission, and the grappling base is what let him take risks on the feet later — he knew that if a fight hit the floor, he was the most dangerous man in it.

The full story of those years — the moves, the wrestling, the jiu-jitsu, and the regional fights that built the 8-0 record — is covered in Ilia Topuria’s full biography on Guide Net Worth, which traces the rise from the Spanish regional scene to the two-division titles. This profile stays with the height question and the career it frames, but the biography is the place for the detail: the family, the gym, and the early fights that made him.

The Road to the UFC: 8-0 Before the Octagon

Topuria turned professional at 18, submitting Francisco Javier Asprilla with a triangle choke in the first round on April 4, 2015, in Valencia. He won his first four fights by submission on the Spanish regional scene and picked up a belt with the Mix Fight Events promotion. The international step came in 2018: a guillotine win over Mika Hämäläinen at CAGE 43 in Helsinki in April, then a first-round anaconda choke over Brian Bouland at Cage Warriors 94 in Antwerp in June. The Bouland win came with a cost — Topuria missed weight at 139.4 lbs for the vacant bantamweight title, so he won the fight and lost the belt in the same night.

In 2019 he signed with Brave Combat Federation. He beat Luis Gomez by triangle armbar in the first round in Bogotá in September, earning a performance bonus, and knocked out Steven Goncalves in the first round in Bahrain in November. That took him to 8-0, with six first-round finishes, and the UFC came calling in 2020. He debuted on short notice on October 11, 2020, replacing Seung Woo Choi against Youssef Zalal in Abu Dhabi, and won a unanimous decision — the only decision of his first ten professional fights, and one of only two in his whole career.

The UFC run that followed was a highlight reel. Damon Jackson, knocked out in the first round in December 2020. Ryan Hall, knocked out in the first round at UFC 264 in July 2021. Jai Herbert, knocked out in the second round in London in March 2022, after surviving a head kick that nearly ended the fight. Bryce Mitchell, submitted in the second round at UFC 282 in December 2022. Josh Emmett, beaten over five rounds in June 2023 in a performance that earned Topuria the title shot. Six UFC wins, five finishes, and a record of 14-0. The height never came up. Nobody asked how tall the man was when he was knocking everyone out.

Featherweight Champion: The Volkanovski Knockout

UFC 298, on February 17, 2024, in Anaheim, was the night the height question got its loudest answer. Alexander Volkanovski, the featherweight champion, stood 5 ft 6 in — one inch shorter than Topuria, the only champion on this list who gave up height to him — and had held the belt for more than four years. Topuria knocked him out in the second round, at 3:32, with a right hand that ended one of the great title reigns in the sport’s history. He became the first Georgian and Spanish fighter to win a UFC championship, and the first man to knock out Volkanovski.

The win mattered beyond the belt. Volkanovski had beaten every featherweight put in front of him, including Holloway three times, and the division had run out of challengers. Topuria, at 27, was the new generation arriving all at once — a fighter who had finished 13 of his 15 wins and had never been past the third round in a UFC fight. The knockout was clean, the celebration was loud, and the message was simple: the division had a new champion, and he was not going anywhere.

The Holloway Defence: First Man to Stop ‘Blessed’

The first title defence, at UFC 308 on October 26, 2024, in Abu Dhabi, was harder. Max Holloway, 5 ft 11 in — four inches taller than Topuria, with a 69-inch reach of his own — had never been knocked out in 34 professional fights. He had absorbed the best shots of Volkanovski, Poirier and Justin Gaethje and kept coming. Topuria stopped him in the third round, at 1:34, with a left hook that put him down and a follow-up that ended it. He became the first fighter ever to knock out Holloway, and the first to defend the featherweight belt against him.

The Holloway win is the one that explains the height question best. Holloway is taller, longer, and one of the highest-volume strikers in UFC history — he lands more significant strikes per minute than almost anyone who has ever fought. Topuria beat him by refusing to play at range. He walked through the volume, took the shots on his guard, and waited for the opening. It came in the third round, and it ended with Holloway on the canvas. Four inches of height, 34 fights without a knockout loss, and none of it mattered once Topuria got inside. That is the whole career in one fight: the shorter man, the heavier hands, the patience to wait for the moment.

After the Holloway win, Topuria’s options were to keep defending at featherweight or chase history at lightweight. He chose history. In April 2025 he vacated the featherweight title, giving up a belt he had defended once, to move up to 155 lbs. The move was a gamble — featherweight champions who move up do not always carry their power with them — and it was also the honest one. The weight cut to 145 lbs had become a punishment, and the lightweight division had the fights he wanted.

The Move to Lightweight and UFC 317

UFC 317, on June 28, 2025, in Las Vegas, was the payoff. Charles Oliveira, the former lightweight champion, stood 5 ft 10 in — three inches taller than Topuria, with a 74-inch reach, five inches longer — and had finished 20 of his 35 wins. Topuria knocked him out in the first round, at 2:27, with a right hand that dropped him and a follow-up that finished the job. He won the vacant lightweight title and became the 10th multi-division champion in UFC history, and the first to win titles in two divisions while still undefeated. He was 16-0, with two belts in two weight classes, and the No. 2 pound-for-pound fighter in the sport.

The Oliveira fight is the best illustration of what Topuria’s height actually means in a fight. Oliveira is longer, taller, and more experienced, and he has finished more fights than Topuria had fought. None of it showed. Topuria closed the distance in the first minute, landed the right hand, and the fight was over before Oliveira could use a single inch of his reach. Charles Oliveira’s biography on Guide Net Worth covers the Brazilian’s own road — from the favelas of Guarujá to the lightweight title — and the loss to Topuria is the latest chapter in it. For Topuria, the win was the peak: two divisions, two knockouts, zero losses, and a claim to be the best fighter on the planet.

It was also, in hindsight, the last fight of the undefeated run. Topuria announced in November 2025 that he would not compete in the first quarter of 2026, citing personal reasons — the separation from his wife, Giorgina Uzcategui Badell, and the divorce proceedings that followed. He spent the first half of 2026 away from the octagon, and when he came back, it was for the biggest stage the UFC has ever built.

The First Loss: Gaethje at the White House

UFC Freedom 250, on June 14, 2026, was held on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. — the first UFC event ever staged there, and the biggest card of the year. Topuria, 17-0, put the lightweight title on the line against Justin Gaethje, the interim champion, who had won the interim belt by outpointing Paddy Pimblett at UFC 324 in January. Gaethje, 37, stood 5 ft 11 in, four inches taller, and came in as a heavy underdog. He produced the upset of the year.

The fight went four rounds, and the damage piled up. Gaethje kept Topuria at range with leg kicks and jabs, refused to let him set his feet, and hurt him repeatedly. The ringside doctor examined Topuria before the fourth round and allowed him to continue. After five more minutes of damage, his corner had seen enough: his brother Aleksandre, his chief cornerman, stopped the fight on the stool after the fourth round, at 5:00, after Topuria told him he could not see. Gaethje won by TKO — a corner stoppage — and took the undisputed lightweight title. Topuria’s record fell to 17-1, and the undefeated run, the longest in the sport at the time, was over.

The injuries were severe. Topuria suffered two broken orbital bones, a broken nose and a broken foot. He later said his brother’s decision likely saved his vision and his career — doctors told him that fat had seeped into the fracture around his eye, and that another half a millimetre would have meant a titanium plate. Some fans accused him of quitting on the stool. He answered that in November, in his first interview since the loss, telling Adam Catterall on the One on One MMA show that he had never cried over the loss, even fighting in front of the president of the United States with both orbital bones broken, and calling it the worst day of his professional career. “I can’t see, I can’t breathe,” he said of the fourth round. “One of the most important moments in my life… I have a guy in front of me that has everything, but not good intentions. He wants to take my head off.”

The loss changed the height story too. For five years, Topuria’s career had been proof that 5 ft 7 in was enough — that timing and power beat reach. Gaethje was the first man to make the four inches count, and he did it by refusing to fight Topuria’s fight: no pocket exchanges, no head-hunting, just range, volume and leg kicks, round after round. It was not a lucky punch. It was a game plan, executed for 20 minutes, against a man who had never lost. The height gap had always been there. Gaethje was the first to use it.

What Comes Next: The 2027 Comeback Plan

As of November 2026, Topuria has no fight booked. He is still following recovery protocols from the Gaethje fight, and he is barred from full training until January 2027, when he says he will return to training at 100 percent. He is targeting a comeback between April and June 2027, and UFC president Dana White confirmed in early November that Topuria will return to the octagon in early 2027. The UFC has announced no opponent and no date for either man.

The rematch is the fight Topuria wants, and it is the one he is least likely to get. He spent the week of November 9 demanding a second fight with Gaethje, and Gaethje’s manager, Ali Abdelaziz, shut it down publicly: “The rematch will never happen, and I agree with him — his brother saved his life.” Abdelaziz’s point was blunt, and Topuria’s answer was blunter: “I want to have my rematch, and it’s going to happen at some point.” Gaethje, 28-5, has not fought since winning the title and has said retirement is on the table — he will return only on his own terms, and a rematch with the man he just beat badly is not on them.

The fight Topuria is targeting instead is Paddy Pimblett. The two have bad blood going back years, Pimblett lost the interim title fight to Gaethje in January 2026, and he submitted Benoit Saint Denis in the first round at UFC 329 in July. Topuria has suggested the two could coach against each other on The Ultimate Fighter, the UFC’s reality show, before fighting. It is not booked, and the UFC has confirmed nothing — but it is the fight Topuria is talking about, and the one the fans want. He remains the No. 1 contender in the UFC’s official lightweight rankings, with Arman Tsarukyan waiting at No. 2, and the division will not move until he does.

Fighting Style: How a 5 Ft 7 In Fighter Knocks Out Giants

Topuria’s style is built around three things: pressure, boxing and grappling. He walks opponents down behind a high guard, cuts off the octagon, and forces them to fight at his range — close, where his short hooks and uppercuts land and their longer punches have no room. He slips the jab and counters with the right hand, the punch that finished Volkanovski, Oliveira and Herbert. He throws in combination, not in single shots, and he finishes: 15 of his 17 wins ended before the final bell, and 10 of them in the first round. The UFC’s own numbers back it up — seven wins by knockout, eight by submission, and only two decisions in 18 fights.

The grappling is the part people forget, because the knockouts are louder. Topuria is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, the first Georgian to earn one, and his first four professional wins all came by submission. The anaconda choke that finished Brian Bouland, the triangle armbar that finished Luis Gomez, the guillotine that finished Mika Hämäläinen — the ground game is not a fallback, it is a threat that keeps opponents from shooting takedowns and lets him commit fully to the boxing. Bryce Mitchell, one of the best grapplers in the featherweight division, found that out at UFC 282: Topuria submitted him in the second round, in Mitchell’s own game.

The style has a weakness, and Gaethje exposed it. Pressure works when the opponent backs up. It fails when the opponent holds his ground, kicks the lead leg, and refuses to trade. Gaethje did not run. He stood his ground, chopped the leg, and made Topuria walk into damage for four rounds. The comeback, when it comes, will be judged on whether Topuria has an answer for that — a leg-kick check, a takedown threat, a way to close distance without paying for it. At 29, with a 17-1 record and two divisional titles, he has time to find one. The height will not change. The game plan might have to.

The Money: Net Worth, Purses and Endorsements

Ilia Topuria’s estimated net worth in 2026 is $2 million, the figure Celebrity Net Worth carries (updated June 16, 2026), and the anchor this profile uses. The credible range is $2–5 million: bet365 News, in a June 2026 profile, put him between $2 million and $5 million, and FanArch, in November 2025, put him at $2–3 million. One site, UFC Fighting Net Worth, prints a figure near $8 million — but it offers no purse data to support it, and this profile does not use it. The documented money points the other way.

The documented money is the fight pay. UFCalendar’s salary tracking puts Topuria’s career fight earnings at roughly $6.6 million — $4.5 million recorded across eight disclosed fights, plus model estimates for the fights no commission ever disclosed. The big nights: the UFC 308 defence against Holloway, which bet365 reported as an estimated $3.9 million total payout, and the UFC 317 win over Oliveira, which Bloody Elbow reported at more than $3.5 million. The purses grew with the titles — a challenger’s pay at UFC 298, a champion’s pay at UFC 308, and a two-division champion’s pay at UFC 317 — and the Gaethje fight, the biggest card of 2026, will have paid more still. The money is real, and it is recent. The $2 million net worth figure looks low against $6.6 million in career earnings until you remember the timeline: most of that money arrived in the last two years, and a fighter’s net worth lags his purses by years, not months.

The endorsement side is smaller than the fight pay, and thinner in the reporting. Topuria’s brand deals have been reported by lower-tier outlets, and this profile will not dress them up as confirmed figures — the honest statement is that his commercial income is modest next to his purses, and that it will grow if the comeback lands. What is certain is the direction: a two-division champion who headlines White House cards does not stay a $2 million fighter for long, if he wins again. The next contract, and the next pay-per-view share, will decide whether the net worth figure doubles or stalls. The loss to Gaethje cost him the belt. It did not cost him the drawing power — the November interviews, the Pimblett callout, and the rematch demand all drew more attention than most champions get in a year.

Family and Personal Life

Topuria’s older brother, Aleksandre Topuria, is also a professional mixed martial artist, and the two earned their Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belts together in May 2018. Aleksandre debuted in the UFC in February 2025, at UFC 312, and he was in Ilia’s corner at the White House in June 2026 — the man who stopped the Gaethje fight, and the man Ilia later credited with saving his career. The brothers train together at the Climent Club in Alicante, and Aleksandre is the closest thing Ilia has to a second coach.

Topuria has two children: a son, Hugo, born in 2019, and a daughter, Gio (Giorgina), born in 2024. His marriage to businesswoman Giorgina Uzcategui Badell, who runs the Miami-based company Future & Energy, ended in separation in August 2025, and divorce proceedings followed. The split turned public and bitter — Uzcategui filed a complaint in Spain’s Court of Violence against Women system, and Topuria denied wrongdoing, describing the dispute as a family and administrative matter concerning his daughter’s travel outside Spain. The conflict was resolved in February 2026, when the former couple reached an out-of-court settlement: shared custody of their daughter, who remains in Spain, and limits on Uzcategui’s planned move to Miami. The Sun reported that Uzcategui was granted primary custody of Gio under the agreement.

Topuria announced in November 2025 that he would not fight in the first quarter of 2026, saying he was going through a difficult personal moment and wanted to focus on his children and resolve the situation. He later said the separation brought him closer to his mother, and that the lesson he took from the divorce was to listen to her. The personal life is not the story of this profile — the height and the career are — but it explains the nine-month gap between the Oliveira win and the Gaethje fight, and the shape of the year that followed. He fought the biggest fight of his life in the middle of the hardest year of it.

Where He Stands: Topuria Among the Lightweights

At 29, with a 17-1 record and titles in two divisions, Topuria is already one of the best fighters of his generation — and the Gaethje loss does not change that. He is the No. 1 lightweight in the UFC rankings as of November 11, 2026, ahead of Arman Tsarukyan at No. 2, and he was ranked No. 5 pound-for-pound in June 2026. He is the first fighter to win UFC titles in two divisions while undefeated, the first to knock out Volkanovski, and the first to knock out Holloway. Those are permanent facts. The loss is a fact too, and it is the one that will define the next chapter: whether he comes back as the fighter who lost once, or the fighter who learned from it.

The comparison that frames him best is with the men he beat. Alexander Volkanovski’s height profile covers the 5 ft 6 in champion who held the featherweight belt for four years before Topuria took it — the one man on this list shorter than him. Charles Oliveira’s biography covers the 5 ft 10 in former lightweight champion who lasted 2 minutes 27 seconds against him. The men he never fought frame him too: Makhachev, who moved up to welterweight rather than face him, and McGregor, whose two-division path Topuria was chasing when he won the lightweight belt. The height never decided any of it. The hands did.

The honest assessment, as of November 14, 2026, is that Ilia Topuria is 5 ft 7 in tall, 17-1, a former champion in two weight classes, and the No. 1 contender at lightweight. He is recovering from the worst beating of his life, barred from full training until January, and planning a return in the spring of 2027. He wants Gaethje again and will probably get Pimblett instead. He is 29, which in this sport is the age when the greats do their best work — and the next fight, whoever it is against, will tell us whether the loss at the White House was the end of the run or the start of the second act.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources & Reporting

This height profile was researched on November 14, 2026, from live search results and the outlets named throughout: the UFC’s official athlete page for the 67.00-inch height, 69.00-inch reach, 155 lbs weight, 17-1-0 record, 7 knockouts, 8 submissions and 10 first-round finishes; Bloody Elbow (June 17, 2025) for the 5 ft 7 in confirmation and the net worth reporting, and (November 9, 2026) for the training ban and the 2027 comeback plan; DAZN for the UFC 317 tale of the tape; ShortBox (July 14, 2025) for the height table; Combat Edge (September 4, 2026) for the lone 5 ft 8 in outlier; Sportradar and UFCalendar for the Freedom 250 result; The Body Lock (November 8 and 10, 2026) for the loss, the rematch rejection and the Pimblett target; Sports Illustrated / FanNation (November 2026) for the Abdelaziz shutdown; bet365 News (November 11, 2026) for the Catterall interview and the injury details, and (June 16, 2026) for the height, weight and $2–5 million net worth range; Sportscape Magazine (November 2026) for the stoppage account; Telecom Asia (November 5 and 6, 2026) for Dana White’s confirmation and the Pimblett challenge; Kalshi for the UFC rankings of November 11, 2026; Wikipedia (updated November 13, 2026) for the early career, the family details and the divorce proceedings; Sherdog (January 20, 2022) for the Halle birthplace and the early fights; ESPN for the full fight history; Celebrity Net Worth (updated June 16, 2026) for the $2 million net worth anchor; UFCalendar for the career-earnings model; FanArch (November 24, 2025) for the $2–3 million range; The Sportster (June 14, 2026) and Celebs In Depth (June 15, 2026) for the family and settlement details; and Sportscasting (December 4, 2025) for the divorce filing. The Guide Net Worth profiles of Ilia Topuria (biography), Charles Oliveira (biography), Alexander Volkanovski, Conor McGregor, Islam Makhachev, Dustin Poirier and Alex Pereira (heights) supplied the internal-link comparisons.

Where outlets disagree — on the height, 5 ft 7 in against 5 ft 8 in; on the net worth, $2 million against $8 million; on the record, 17-0 against 17-1 — this profile names the disagreement, dates each figure, and attributes it to its outlet rather than picking a winner silently. No figure in this article comes from an anonymous “sources say” claim, and no fact has been added that the cited reporting does not support. Corrections policy: figures are updated when new reporting emerges — contact us via the About page if you spot an error.