Neil Magny

Overview

Neil Magny has 25 UFC wins at welterweight, and 14 of them went to the judges. Wins aren't the problem. Finishing him is where opponents have found their opening: six of his 13 UFC losses are submissions and four more are knockouts.

His UFC record is 25-13, inside a 32-15 professional record across all promotions. He debuted in February 2013, and in the years since he has become one of the most reliable names to keep a welterweight card moving.

He carries a one-fight winning streak into his next fight. His longest UFC run is seven straight.

UFC Career

Magny started 1-2 in 2013, dropping a first-round submission to Sergio Moraes and a decision to Seth Baczynski. Then he ran off seven straight wins, his longest streak, a stretch that included knockouts of Rodrigo de Lima and William Macario and a submission of Kiichi Kunimoto.

The first real test of that run came against Demian Maia, an elite opponent, and it ended in a second-round submission loss. He bounced back by taking a five-round split decision over Kelvin Gastelum in a main event.

Elite and strong opponents have been a mixed story. He has no wins over anyone our model rates elite, and he lost to Rafael Dos Anjos and Gilbert Burns by first-round submission. He has beaten strong opponents, though: Johny Hendricks, Li Jingliang, Geoff Neal and Mike Malott.

The losses to Shavkat Rakhmonov, Michael Morales and Carlos Prates all came against strong opponents. Since 2024, he has alternated wins and losses, including finishes of Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos and Jake Matthews, then a first-round submission loss to Yaroslav Amosov.

He has headlined four times, three of them five-round fights.

Thirty-eight UFC fights, and he keeps taking the next one.

Fighting Style

Magny is hard to hit. He absorbs far fewer strikes per minute than the UFC average, while his output, accuracy and striking defense all sit around the average. He wins by not getting damaged, not by overwhelming anyone.

He also wrestles. He lands takedowns at a rate well above most of the division and defends them better than most. What he rarely does is hunt for submissions, attempting far fewer than the average. Still, three of his UFC wins came by submission, all in the third round.

His finishes tend to come late. Of his 11 UFC finishes, only one came in the first round, and the other ten were spread across rounds two and three. Eight were knockouts, four of them in round two and three in round three. Fourteen of his 25 UFC wins went to the scorecards.

Notable Wins

• Kelvin Gastelum — split decision, round 5, UFC Fight Night: Magny vs Gastelum (2015)
• Hector Lombard — KO/TKO, round 3, UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs Mir (2016)
• Carlos Condit — unanimous decision, UFC 219 (2017)
• Mike Malott — KO/TKO, round 3, UFC 297 (2024)

Quick Facts

• Division: Welterweight
• UFC record: 25-13
• Professional record (all promotions): 32-15-0
• UFC debut: 2013
• Stance: Orthodox
• Height / reach: 6'3" / 80"
• Team: Elevation Fight Team, Denver, CO
• Born: Brooklyn, NY, United States