Xiaonan Yan
“Fury”
Xiaonan Yan is ranked 12th of 156 women's strawweights by the First Light Rating, and 6th in the UFC’s own women's strawweight rankings.
- FLRFirst Light Ratingmeasure of true skill
- 1,80012th of 156 · Women's Strawweight
- FLIFirst Light Indexfame compared to skill
- +0.29Fame ahead of skill
▲ +0.03 in 23 days - Career phase
- DecliningCareer-best FLR 1,853, 23 Nov 2024
- Record
- 19–6Pro, 1 NC
Fame against skill.
Every fighter with an FLI, by skill and fame. Hover a dot for the fighter; click to open their page. The dashed curve is the fame their skill predicts: above it, a fighter is more famous than their skill; below it, better than their fame.
Skill and attention.
Attention is drawn at the skill level its fame matches: above the skill line, more famous than skilled. Shaded: where the most similar careers went next.
Recent fights.
| Date | Fight | FLR |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Aug 2026 | Lost to Denise GomesUFC Fight Night 286 - Nurmagomedov vs. Song · KO (Elbow and Punches), R1 | −33 |
| 12 Apr 2025 | Lost to Virna JandirobaUFC 314 - Volkanovski vs. Lopes · Decision (Unanimous), R3 | −18 |
| 23 Nov 2024 | Won vs Tabatha RicciUFC Fight Night 248 - Yan vs. Figueiredo · Decision (Unanimous), R3 | +29 |
| 13 Apr 2024 | Lost to Weili Zhang TitleUFC 300 - Pereira vs. Hill · Decision (Unanimous), R5 | −13 |
| 6 May 2023 | Won vs Jessica AndradeUFC 288 - Sterling vs. Cejudo · KO (Punches), R1 | +46 |
| 1 Oct 2022 | Won vs Mackenzie DernUFC Fight Night 211 - Dern vs. Yan · Decision (Majority), R5 | +24 |
| 5 Mar 2022 | Lost to Marina RodriguezUFC 272 - Covington vs. Masvidal · Decision (Split), R3 | −3 |
| 22 May 2021 | Lost to Carla EsparzaUFC Fight Night 188 - Font vs. Garbrandt · TKO (Punches), R2 | −31 |
| 7 Nov 2020 | Won vs Claudia GadelhaUFC on ESPN 17 - Santos vs. Teixeira · Decision (Unanimous), R3 | +33 |
| 23 Feb 2020 | Won vs Karolina KowalkiewiczUFC Fight Night 168 - Felder vs. Hooker · Decision (Unanimous), R3 | +41 |
| 8 Jun 2019 | Won vs Angela HillUFC 238 - Cejudo vs. Moraes · Decision (Unanimous), R3 | +31 |
| 24 Nov 2018 | Won vs Syuri KondoUFC Fight Night 141 - Blaydes vs. Ngannou 2 · Decision (Unanimous), R3 | +64 |
FLR is the First Light Rating points the fight earned or cost them.
How it is measured.
Data Credit: First Light Observatory.
How these numbers are made.
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