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Matheus Nicolau

19–5 · 28 recorded bouts · 2010–2024

MMA record

19–5

Matheus Nicolau finished 53% of 19 wins inside the distance — the 30th percentile for bantamweight MMA, where the median is 68%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

20102020UNFILEDwin v Pedro Alves Chalita, 2010, submissionwin v Damien Pighiera, 2011, submissiondraw v Larry Passos Vargas, 2011, drawwin v Fernando Silva, 2011, koloss v Pedro Nobre, 2012, kowin v Denison Silva, 2012, decisionwin v Larry Passos Vargas, 2012, kowin v Gilberto Dias, 2012, decisionwin v Michael Daboville, 2012, submissionwin v Vanderlei Carvalho Leite, 2013, decisionwin v Derinaldo Guerra da Silva, 2014, kowin v Pedro Arruda, 2014, kowin v Bruno Mesquita, 2015, submissionloss v Dileno Lopes, 2015, decisionwin v John Moraga, 2016, decisionwin v Louis Smolka, 2017, decisionloss v Dustin Ortiz, 2018, kowin v Felipe Efrain, 2019, decisionwin v Alan Gabriel, 2019, submissionwin v Tim Elliott, 2021, decisionwin v Manel Kape, 2021, decisionwin v Matt Schnell, 2022, kowin v David Dvořák, 2022, decisionloss v Brandon Royval, 2023, koloss v Asu Almabayev, 2024, decisionloss v Alex Perez, 2024, kowin v Reginaldo Vieira, no date on recordwin v Mateus Vasco, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2010–2024 · 2 UNDATED

SOURCE·Matheus Nicolau — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-09

How this record is compiled

  1. Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-06-09. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 186 bantamweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

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.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2024 L Asu Almabayev Decision3
2024 L Alex Perez KO/TKO2
2023 L Brandon Royval KO/TKO1
2022 W Matt Schnell KO/TKO2
2022 W David Dvořák Decision3
2021 W Tim Elliott Decision3
2021 W Manel Kape Decision3
2019 W Felipe Efrain Decision3
2019 W Alan Gabriel Submission1
2018 L Dustin Ortiz KO/TKO1
2017 W Louis Smolka Decision3
2016 W John Moraga Decision3
2015 W Bruno Mesquita Submission3
2015 L Dileno Lopes Decision3
2014 W Derinaldo Guerra da Silva KO/TKO2
2014 W Pedro Arruda KO/TKO1
2013 W Vanderlei Carvalho Leite Decision3
2012 L Pedro Nobre KO/TKO1
2012 W Denison Silva Decision2
2012 W Larry Passos Vargas KO/TKO3
2012 W Gilberto Dias Decision3
2012 W Michael Daboville Submission1
2011 W Damien Pighiera Submission2
2011 D Larry Passos Vargas Draw3
2011 W Fernando Silva KO/TKO2
2010 W Pedro Alves Chalita Submission1
undated W Reginaldo Vieira Decision5
undated W Mateus Vasco Submission3

10 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Matheus Nicolau — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-09

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height66″ (167.6 cm)
Stance—
DivisionBantamweight MMA
competed at 2: flyweight, bantamweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade2010s — 19 of 26 dated bouts
CountryBrazil

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Matheus Nicolau, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

2010 2020 win vs Pedro Alves Chalita (2010)win vs Damien Pighiera (2011)draw vs Larry Passos Vargas (2011)win vs Fernando Silva (2011)loss vs Pedro Nobre (2012)win vs Denison Silva (2012)win vs Larry Passos Vargas (2012)win vs Gilberto Dias (2012)win vs Michael Daboville (2012)win vs Vanderlei Carvalho Leite (2013)win vs Derinaldo Guerra da Silva (2014)win vs Pedro Arruda (2014)win vs Bruno Mesquita (2015)loss vs Dileno Lopes (2015)win vs John Moraga (2016)win vs Louis Smolka (2017)loss vs Dustin Ortiz (2018)win vs Felipe Efrain (2019)win vs Alan Gabriel (2019)win vs Tim Elliott (2021)win vs Manel Kape (2021)win vs Matt Schnell (2022)win vs David Dvořák (2022)loss vs Brandon Royval (2023)loss vs Asu Almabayev (2024)loss vs Alex Perez (2024)
winlossdraw / NC2010–2024

Record

MMA record

19–5

25 bouts on record

Finish rate

53%

of wins ended inside the distance — bantamweight MMA median 68%, 30th percentile

KO/TKO: 5 (26%)Submission: 5 (26%)Decision: 9 (47%)
  • KO/TKO 26%
  • Submission 26%
  • Decision 47%

The career, bout by bout

28 recorded bouts from 2010 to 2024. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

15y

2010–2024

Longest unbeaten run

8

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2012

5 bouts

Recorded bouts

28

26 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Matheus Nicolau's record?
19–5 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 28 bouts individually.
How many of Matheus Nicolau's bouts have no date?
2 of 28. 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.

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