Tecia Pennington
USATecia Pennington, “The Tiny Tornado”, is a Women's Strawweight from the United States with an official record of 15-8. Cage Brothers holds 19 of those bouts: 11 wins and 8 losses, the wins coming 1 by knockout, 1 by submission and 9 by decision. The most recent bout on file is a decision loss to Denise Gomes at UFC Fight Night: Bonfim vs. Brown on 8 November 2025.
| Date | Opponent | Result | Method | Round | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 2025 | Denise Gomes | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Bonfim vs. Brown |
| May 17, 2025 | Luana Pinheiro | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales |
| Oct 5, 2024 | Carla Esparza | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr. |
| May 11, 2024 | Tabatha Ricci | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Nascimento |
| Apr 9, 2022 | Mackenzie Dern | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie |
| Aug 7, 2021 | Angela Hill | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 265: Lewis vs. Gane |
| Dec 13, 2020 | Sam Hughes | WIN | KOTKO - Doctor's Stoppage | R1 · 5:00 | UFC 256: Figueiredo vs. Moreno |
| Jun 20, 2020 | Brianna Fortino | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Volkov |
| Aug 10, 2019 | Marina Rodriguez | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Shevchenko vs. Carmouche 2 |
| Mar 2, 2019 | Zhang Weili | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 235: Jones vs. Smith |
| Jul 28, 2018 | Joanna Jedrzejczyk | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Alvarez vs. Poirier 2 |
| Feb 24, 2018 | Jessica Andrade | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Stephens |
| Dec 2, 2017 | Michelle Waterson-Gomez | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2 |
| Jul 8, 2017 | Juliana Lima | WIN | SUBRear Naked Choke | R2 · 0:53 | The Ultimate Fighter 25 Finale |
| Feb 5, 2017 | Bec Rawlings | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Bermudez vs. The Korean Zombie |
| Apr 17, 2016 | Rose Namajunas | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs. Evans |
| Dec 12, 2015 | Jocelyn Jones-Lybarger | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 194: Aldo vs. McGregor |
| Jun 14, 2015 | Angela Hill | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 188: Velasquez vs. Werdum |
| Dec 12, 2014 | Angela Magana | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | The Ultimate Fighter 20 Finale |
Wins, losses and draws are Tecia Pennington’s official record. Everything else is counted from the 19 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.
Tecia Pennington’s record, in numbers
Tecia Pennington’s official record is 15-8. Every figure on this page is counted instead from the 19 bouts Cage Brothers holds a result for — 11 wins, 8 losses — because 4 bouts from the official record are not in the history we hold.
The 11 wins break down as 1 by knockout, 1 by submission and 9 by decision — 2 of 11 inside the distance, a finish rate of 18%. Across all 19 bouts with a recorded finishing round, the average bout lasted 14 minutes.
Tecia Pennington has never been stopped in the 19 bouts on file; all 8 losses went to a decision.
The 19 bouts Cage Brothers holds a result for include no title fights and no main events. Three of them have come since October 2024.
Set against the 163 Women's Strawweight fighters Cage Brothers holds eight or more bouts for, Tecia Pennington has a finish rate above 8% of them, a record of avoiding stoppage above 76% of them and a two-year bout count above 75% 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.
Tecia Pennington is listed at 5ft 1in with a reach of 60in, fights orthodox and is 37, born 15 August 1989.
These figures are recomputed from Tecia Pennington’s bout history each time results are synced, so they follow the record rather than a fixed snapshot.