Nate Landwehr

Landwehr walked into Swanson's retirement fight and found himself on the wrong side of a veteran striking clinic, getting dropped multiple times before the late first-round stoppage. The loss fit the danger of his style: he stayed aggressive, but Swanson's calf kicks and sharper counters punished every open exchange.

Key moments

• Swanson scored multiple knockdowns before the stoppage at 4:06 of round one.
• Landwehr kept pressing forward, but the cleaner counters consistently favored Swanson.
• The defeat followed another violent stoppage loss to Morgan Charriere in July 2025.

Landwehr forced another chaotic fight, but Charriere won the final exchange almost immediately after round three began and ended the bout in a burst of punches. The result was important because it turned an action scrap into Landwehr's second straight stoppage loss after the Choi fight.

Key moments

• Charriere finished the fight just 27 seconds into the third round.
• The bout earned attention as another bonus-level firefight while it lasted.
• It left Landwehr on a two-fight skid heading into the 2026 Swanson matchup.

Landwehr turned another rough, chaotic fight in his favor by outlasting the uncomfortable moments and then cashing in once the scramble opened up late. It was the kind of performance that explains his appeal perfectly: absorb some danger, keep the pace filthy, then find the finish when the other man finally breaks.

Key moments

• Dragged Lingo into a pressure-heavy scrap rather than a clean kickboxing match.
• Stayed aggressive long enough to find the opening in the second-round scramble.
• Took the rear-naked choke finish at 4:11 of round two.

Landwehr walked Klein down for long stretches and eventually forced the kind of exhausting fight that lets his grit matter most.

Key moments

• Pressured Klein consistently and kept him working through uncomfortable exchanges.
• Found the submission opening after forcing the fight into another extended scramble.
• Finished the anaconda choke at 2:22 of round three.

Landwehr barely had time to settle before Erosa caught him with a flying knee and poured on the follow-up. It was a brutal reminder of the downside of Landwehr's all-action approach, because the fight ended before his usual pressure and durability could become factors.

Key moments

• Was clipped almost immediately in one of the shortest fights of his UFC tenure.
• Erosa's flying knee set up the finishing sequence before Landwehr could recover.
• The stoppage came just 56 seconds into round one.

Landwehr earned his first UFC win by surviving Elkins' familiar pressure and answering it with even uglier, higher-volume offense over three rounds. It was not tidy, but it was exactly the kind of fight he needed after the Herbert Burns loss: gritty, messy and full of enough offense to keep the judges with him.

Key moments

• Snapped his early UFC skid with a pressure-heavy, high-volume performance.
• Matched Elkins' grind and kept throwing enough offense to stay ahead in the action.
• Won a unanimous decision over three rounds.

Landwehr's UFC debut unraveled quickly after Burns turned the fight into a grappling exchange, threatened a D'Arce choke, and then met Landwehr's return flurry with a clinch knee. It was a harsh first Octagon lesson because Landwehr barely got to establish his usual pace before Burns shut the fight down.

Key moments

• Burns scored an early takedown and immediately attacked a D'Arce choke before Landwehr escaped back to his feet.
• As Landwehr tried to answer with pressure along the fence, Burns countered with the finishing knee.
• The stoppage came at 2:43 of round one in Landwehr's UFC debut.

The unanimous decision mattered because it served as another successful featherweight title defense in one of the most talked-about regional fights of that summer.

Key moments

• The rematch was framed afterward as a fight-of-the-year candidate because both men kept trading through all five rounds.
• Kolesnik badly hurt Landwehr with a head kick in round two and later landed a spinning body kick that created another crisis in round four.
• Landwehr's pressure and output held up over the full twenty-five minutes, earning him the unanimous decision.

Landwehr's first M-1 featherweight title defense started badly when Lezhnev cracked him early and spent heavy energy chasing the finish, but the fight flipped once Landwehr's pace began to tell. By the third round the champion had broken the challenger down and closed the show with unanswered punches in another wild M-1 title fight.

Key moments

• Lezhnev hurt Landwehr with a leaping left hook in the opening round and briefly controlled from side control after following him down.
• Landwehr steadied himself, kept forcing scrambles and pressure, and looked noticeably fresher as the fight moved into the later rounds.
• Lezhnev's gas tank faded in round three and Landwehr finished with unanswered strikes at 3:10.

Landwehr banked a three-round unanimous decision over Solon Staley in one of his last U. S. regional fights before the move into M-1.

Key moments

• The fight went the full three rounds, giving Landwehr another decision win on the regional circuit.
• Judges awarded Landwehr a unanimous decision at Fight Time's November to Remember card.
• It was his final victory before the 2017 M-1 jump that changed the level of opposition.

Landwehr closed the first round hard against Diego Saraiva and collected another regional stoppage win by punches.

Key moments

• Stopped Saraiva with punches at 4:47 of round one.
• The finish came on the A&A Fight Time Promotions: A Night of Explosions card in Florida.
• It gave Landwehr his first win after the Mark Cherico submission loss.

Cherico handed Landwehr a setback in a vacant title fight, catching the rear-naked choke early in the second round.

Key moments

• The bout was contested for the vacant Gladiators of the Cage featherweight title.
• Cherico finished the rear-naked choke 1:34 into round two.
• Landwehr answered the defeat by winning his next three recorded fights in 2015 and 2016.

Landwehr proved he could hold up over championship distance here, edging Adam Townsend by split decision after five rounds.

Key moments

• The bout lasted the full five rounds before going to the judges.
• Landwehr took a split decision over Townsend on the 3FC 20 card.
• It was his first recorded fight after the Keith Richardson knockout win in late 2013.

Landwehr rebounded from the D'Juan Owens loss by knocking out Keith Richardson late in the opening round at XFC 26. The finish put him back on track and started the stretch that led into the longer Adam Townsend fight the next February.

Key moments

• Stopped Richardson with punches at 4:43 of round one.
• The fight took place under the XFC banner in October 2013.
• It was Landwehr's first recorded win after the only loss of his first four pro bouts.