Matheus Camilo

Camilo delivered the breakout result of his young UFC career in Baku by upsetting local favorite Sadykhov in the opening round. UFC's own event recap highlighted the win as one that quieted the partisan crowd, and the official finish came by punches at 1:31.

Key moments

• Camilo capitalized before Sadykhov could establish the kind of drawn-out brawl that usually benefits him.
• The stoppage came by punches only 91 seconds into the fight.
• The win stood out immediately on a card designed around local momentum and recognizable names.
• It pushed Camilo to 2-1 in the UFC with his biggest result to date.

Camilo followed his rough debut with a steadier kind of UFC win, going the full three rounds with Borshchev and taking a unanimous decision. It was a useful proof point that he could bank a measured fight at this level instead of only hunting for a sudden finish.

Key moments

• The fight went a full fifteen minutes, which gave Camilo a needed extended UFC test.
• He won cleanly on the cards rather than sneaking through a split call.
• Beating a proven striker like Borshchev broadened the shape of Camilo's early UFC profile.
• The result set up the confidence and momentum that carried into the Sadykhov upset.

Camilo's UFC debut ended with a harsh lesson in the second round, when Green turned the fight into a grappling finish and forced a face-crank submission at 3:43. It was not the kind of opening result a prospect wants, but it also gave him a very clear baseline for how much faster and more punishing the promotion's lightweight division can be.

Key moments

• The loss came in round two, after Camilo had at least settled through part of the debut before the finish.
• Green secured the face crank at 3:43 rather than overwhelming him with a striking stoppage.
• The result left Camilo 0-1 in the UFC before his rebound run began.
• It also underlined that his grappling metrics on the UFC page are not just offensive decorations but part of what he needed to sharpen.

Camilo closed 2024 with a straightforward unanimous decision over Nabotov, adding a reliable three-round win before his move into the UFC. That matters for the profile because it shows his background was not built only on quick finishes against overmatched opposition.

Key moments

• He went the full distance and still left no ambiguity on the scorecards.
• The win came six months before his UFC debut, making it a meaningful bridge result rather than distant history.
• It added another example of Camilo being able to manage a controlled fight.
• That steadier kind of performance became relevant again in the Borshchev decision.

The Sojo fight was another useful developmental win rather than a highlight-reel one. Camilo went three rounds, took the unanimous decision, and built the kind of recent experience base that made his later UFC step-up less abrupt than it might look at first glance.

Key moments

• Camilo banked another full-distance win only two months before the Nabotov result.
• The unanimous decision reinforced that he could work outside a pure first-round script.
• That back-to-back stretch of decision wins gave his record more shape before the UFC call.
• It helped set up a stronger version of Camilo than the one implied by his raw finish numbers alone.

Camilo showed he could stay dangerous deep into a fight by submitting Dorian Ramos in round three at Fury FC 83. That matters because much of his record reads like early violence, but this win proved he could still find a finish after working through extended rounds.

Key moments

• The finish came at 2:43 of the third round rather than in an opening burst.
• Camilo won by triangle choke in the Fury FC co-main event.
• It was his second submission win of 2023 after the kimura against Jake Heffernan.
• The result pushed him further into the featherweight run that led to his UFC signing.

Camilo nearly completed the first round against Alberto Romo before breaking him with knees and punches for a TKO at LXF 9. It was a useful follow-up to the Heffernan submission because it kept showing a prospect who could end fights with very different looks.

Key moments

• The stoppage came with 17 seconds left in round one at 4:43.
• Camilo finished Romo by knee-and-punches rather than with a clean one-shot knockout.
• It gave him back-to-back finishes to open 2023.
• The win came in California before he returned to Fury FC and beat Dorian Ramos that September.

Camilo opened 2023 by catching Jake Heffernan in a first-round kimura at Fury FC 74, adding another grappling finish to a record that would later be treated as mostly striking-led. The result helped reassert momentum after the 2022 loss to Aric Mercado.

Key moments

• The kimura finish came at 4:17 of the opening round.
• Camilo bounced back from the Aric Mercado defeat with an immediate stoppage win.
• It was his first professional submission since the 2019 loss to Derick Garcia Borges had marked him with a grappling setback of his own.
• He followed this with another first-round finish against Alberto Romo three months later.

Camilo erased the disappointment of the Mercado loss with a rapid second-round knockout of Tyrek Malveaux at Fury FC 65. The result mattered because it got him back in the win column immediately and did it with the kind of explosive timing that later became a recurring part of his prospect appeal.

Key moments

• The knockout landed only 24 seconds into round two.
• Camilo rebounded cleanly after the February guillotine loss to Aric Mercado.
• The win came at featherweight and restored his momentum in the Fury FC run.
• It was his first victory of 2022 before he ended the year with a first-round kimura.

Mercado handed Camilo a second-round guillotine-choke loss at Fury FC 57, interrupting the early rise he had built through three straight stoppage wins. For a young fighter who would later lean into wrestling-heavy UFC minutes, this was an early reminder that the grappling exchanges cut both ways.

Key moments

• The finish came late in round two after Camilo had survived beyond the opening frame.
• It was Camilo's first loss since his professional debut defeat in 2019.
• The result snapped a three-fight winning streak built across Shooto Brazil, Rio MMA Fight Night, and XFC.
• He answered the setback in his next appearance by knocking out Tyrek Malveaux.

Camilo needed less than half a round to stop Darnell White Jr. with punches at XFC 45, giving him another first-round finish as he built his U.S. regional record. The fight also came after opponent changes on the card, which makes the quick ending an even cleaner momentum keeper.

Key moments

• The TKO came at 2:28 of round one.
• Camilo scored the finish at featherweight on the XFC 45 main card.
• It was his third straight stoppage win after the Wadson Mota fight in Brazil.
• The result carried him into the Fury FC stretch that produced both his 2022 setback and rebound.

Camilo earned one of the sturdier regional wins on his record by stopping Wadson Mota late in round two at Shooto Brazil 105. The finish mattered because Mota was already a more seasoned opponent than the record-line alone suggests, and Camilo got him out with attritional knees and punches rather than a flash finish.

Key moments

• The stoppage arrived at 4:16 of round two.
• Camilo finished the fight with a mix of knees and punches.
• It pushed him to 3-1 after the difficult pro debut loss the year before.
• This victory helped launch the three-fight stoppage streak that continued through Darnell White Jr.

Camilo's second professional fight ended in a first-round submission loss to Derick Garcia Borges at Shooto Brazil 98. It is a useful early marker because the rest of his record became a long rebuilding exercise from that setback rather than an uninterrupted prospect climb.

Key moments

• The armbar finish came at 4:03 of the opening round.
• It dropped Camilo to 1-1 early in his professional career.
• The loss followed only nine months after his split-decision debut win over Thomas Bryan.
• Camilo responded by winning his next three fights, all by stoppage.

Camilo started his professional career with a split decision over Thomas Bryan at Bodao Fighting Championship 1, taking the narrow route instead of announcing himself with a finish. That matters now because the record later filled up with stoppages, but the debut shows he had to learn how to edge out competitive rounds before the finishing run came together.

Key moments

• The judges were split after three full rounds.
• Camilo won his professional debut rather than opening with a setback.
• The fight gave him a full three-round test in his first professional outing.
• His next appearance brought an early-career correction when Derick Garcia Borges submitted him at Shooto Brazil 98.