Paulo Costa
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Biography
Professional mixed martial artist. He currently fights as a Light Heavyweight for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
Born: April 21, 1991
Place of Birth: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Known For
UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria
UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on February 17, 2024, at the Honda Center, in Anaheim, USA. A UFC Featherweight Championship bout between current champion Alexander Volkanovski and Ilia Topuria headlined the event. This bout was originally expected to headline UFC 297 one month prior but was pushed back after Volkanovski was pulled to face UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev at UFC 294.
UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards 2
UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards 2 was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on August 20, 2022, at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. A UFC Welterweight Championship bout between current champion (also The Ultimate Fighter: American Top Team vs. Blackzilians welterweight winner) Kamaru Usman and Leon Edwards headlined the event. The pairing previously met at UFC on Fox: dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 in December 2015 where Usman defeated Edwards by unanimous decision.
UFC 212: Aldo vs. Holloway
UFC 212: Aldo vs. Holloway is a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on June 3, 2017 at the Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2
UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2 was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on August 17, 2019 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. A UFC Heavyweight Championship rematch between current champion Daniel Cormier and former champion Stipe Miocic served as the event's headliner. The pairing met previously at UFC 226 on July 7, 2018 when then UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Cormier knocked out Miocic in the first round to capture the heavyweight title.
UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa
UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa is a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will take place on September 27, 2020 at the Flash Forum on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. A UFC Middleweight Championship bout between current champion Israel Adesanya and Paulo Costa served as the event headliner.
The Ultimate Fighter: Brasil
The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil is an installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship-produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter. This season marked the first time the show was filmed, in its entirety, outside of Las Vegas, Nevada, and consisted of 12 episodes and a live finale in Brazil. The season tournament finale appeared on pay-per-view in June 2012. It started filming in February 2012 and was in Portuguese. The season was produced by Floresta, a Brazilian production company, and aired in Brazil on Globo. Each episode was broadcast over the Internet at TUF.tv each Sunday night and later aired on Fuel TV in a marathon leading up to the finale.
UFC 217: Bisping vs. St-Pierre
UFC 217: Bisping vs. St-Pierre is a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on November 4, 2017 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.
UFC 318: Holloway vs. Poirier 3
UFC 318: Holloway vs. Poirier 3 was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on July 19, 2025, at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Former UFC Featherweight Champion Max Holloway put his symbolic "BMF" title on the line against former interim UFC Lightweight Champion Dustin Poirier in a lightweight bout in the main event. This was their third meeting and Poirier's retirement fight.
UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier
UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier is a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on July 7, 2018, at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.
UFC Fight Night 196: Costa vs. Vettori
Paulo Costa vs. Marvin Vettori (Middleweight) Grant Dawson vs. Rick Glenn (Lightweight) Jessica-Rose Clark vs. Joselyne Edwards (Bantamweight) Alex Caceres vs. Seung Woo Choi (Featherweight) Dwight Grant vs. Francisco Trinaldo (Welterweight) Nicolae Negumereanu vs. Ike Villanueva (Light Heavyweight)
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