Pat Sabatini
Vitals
Height, reach, and career background.
Record
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WinDEC
Opponent: Chepe MariscalunanimousR3 5:00
UFC 322
15 Nov 2025
15 Nov 2025
Sabatini beat Chepe Mariscal over three rounds in New York and handed him his first UFC loss. The win was significant because Mariscal's pace and willingness to scramble made it one of the better tests of whether Sabatini's positional game still held up against a surging featherweight.
Key moments
- Won a unanimous decision over Chepe Mariscal at UFC 322.
- Handed Mariscal his first defeat inside the UFC.
- Gave Sabatini a third straight victory.
5 Apr 2025
12 Oct 2024
17 Jun 2023
17 Sep 2022
16 Apr 2022
20 Nov 2021
24 Apr 2021
18 Dec 2020
17 Sep 2020
1 Feb 2020
17 May 2019
14 Dec 2018
17 Aug 2018
14 Apr 2018
16 Dec 2017
16 Sep 2017
24 Feb 2017
5 Nov 2016
6 Feb 2016
31 Oct 2015
7 Feb 2015
25 Oct 2014
26 Apr 2014
The Read
Style, strengths, and defining traits.
Sabatini is a wrestling-to-back-take featherweight whose game becomes oppressive once he can pin opponents to the fence and make them keep answering the same chain. UFC's numbers describe the style clearly: 4.27 takedowns and 1.28 submissions per 15 minutes, with a black-belt jiu-jitsu game that has produced 12 submission wins and a long list of controlled decision performances when the finish never quite opens.
The current version is the mature one, not the prospect one. Losses to Damon Jackson and Diego Lopes showed the risk when the fight gets forced into early chaos, but four straight wins over Jonathan Pearce, Joanderson Brito, Chepe Mariscal and William Gomis pushed Sabatini back into the real featherweight conversation by leaning on exactly what he has always done best.