Tai Tuivasa
AustraliaTai Tuivasa, “Bam Bam”, is a Heavyweight from Australia with an official record of 15-10. Cage Brothers holds 21 of those bouts: 11 wins and 10 losses, the wins coming 10 by knockout and 1 by decision. The most recent bout on file is a decision loss to Louie Sutherland at UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs. Prates on 2 May 2026, the seventh defeat in a row.
| Date | Opponent | Result | Method | Round | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 2026 | Robelis Despaigne | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 331: Van vs. Pantoja 2 |
| May 2, 2026 | Louie Sutherland | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs. Prates |
| Jan 31, 2026 | Tallison Teixeira | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 325: Volkanovski vs. Lopes 2 |
| Aug 17, 2024 | Jairzinho Rozenstruik | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 305: Du Plessis vs. Adesanya |
| Mar 16, 2024 | Marcin Tybura | LOSS | SUBRear Naked Choke | R1 · 4:08 | UFC Fight Night: Tuivasa vs. Tybura |
| Sep 9, 2023 | Alexander Volkov | LOSS | SUBEzekiel Choke | R2 · 4:37 | UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland |
| Dec 4, 2022 | Sergei Pavlovich | LOSS | KOPunches | R1 · 0:54 | UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland |
| Sep 3, 2022 | Ciryl Gane | LOSS | KOPunches | R3 · 4:23 | UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa |
| Feb 12, 2022 | Derrick Lewis | WIN | KOElbow | R2 · 1:40 | UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2 |
| Dec 11, 2021 | Augusto Sakai | WIN | KOPunches | R2 · 0:26 | UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier |
| Jul 10, 2021 | Greg Hardy | WIN | KOPunch | R1 · 1:07 | UFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3 |
| Mar 20, 2021 | Harry Hunsucker | WIN | KOPunches | R1 · 0:49 | UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Holland |
| Oct 24, 2020 | Stefan Struve | WIN | KOPunches | R1 · 4:59 | UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje |
| Oct 5, 2019 | Serghei Spivac | LOSS | SUBArm Triangle | R2 · 3:14 | UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya |
| Jun 8, 2019 | Blagoy Ivanov | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes |
| Dec 1, 2018 | Junior Dos Santos | LOSS | KOPunches | R2 · 2:30 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa |
| Jun 9, 2018 | Andrei Arlovski | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 |
| Feb 10, 2018 | Cyril Asker | WIN | KOElbow | R1 · 2:18 | UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold |
| Nov 18, 2017 | Rashad Coulter | WIN | KOFlying Knee | R1 · 4:35 | UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura |
| Oct 15, 2016 | James McSweeney | WIN | KOTKO | R1 · 5:00 | AFC 17: Australian Fighting Championship 17 |
| Jun 18, 2016 | Brandon Sosoli | WIN | KOKO | R1 · 0:21 | AFC 16: Sosoli vs. Tuivasa |
| Dec 12, 2015 | Gul Pohatu | WIN | KOTKO | R1 | UFN: Urban Fight Night 5 |
Wins, losses and draws are Tai Tuivasa’s official record. Everything else is counted from the 22 bouts we hold a full result for — method, round and time. Per-fight striking and grappling statistics are not published in our data source, so they are not shown.
Tai Tuivasa’s record, in numbers
Tai Tuivasa’s official record is 15-10. Every figure on this page is counted instead from the 21 bouts Cage Brothers holds a result for — 11 wins, 10 losses — because 4 bouts from the official record are not in the history we hold.
The 11 wins break down as 10 by knockout and 1 by decision — 10 of 11 inside the distance, a finish rate of 91%. Across all 21 bouts with a recorded finishing round, the average bout lasted 7 minutes 11 seconds.
Tai Tuivasa has been stopped 6 times in the 21 bouts on file — 3 by knockout and 3 by submission — which is 29% of them. The last 7 bouts on file are all losses.
Of the 21 bouts Cage Brothers holds a result for, 5 were the main event of the card. Two of them have come since September 2024.
Set against the 486 Heavyweight fighters Cage Brothers holds eight or more bouts for, Tai Tuivasa has a finish rate above 78% of them, a record of avoiding stoppage above 30% of them and a two-year bout count above 77% of them. The comparison is made inside the division rather than across the whole roster, because how often a division finishes depends heavily on what it weighs.
Tai Tuivasa is listed at 6ft 2in with a reach of 75in, fights southpaw and is 33, born 15 March 1993.
These figures are recomputed from Tai Tuivasa’s bout history each time results are synced, so they follow the record rather than a fixed snapshot.