The UFC API: UFC Stats, ESPN's feed and FighterAPI

The options

• UFC Stats (ufcstats.com)

  The site that publishes UFC events, fight results and fight statistics, including round by round, as HTML pages.

  Live in a browser. No API. A plain scripted request to the completed events page returned a JavaScript browser challenge instead of the data on 2026-10-14.

• Greco1899/scrape_ufc_stats

  Python scrapers and the CSVs they produce: events, fight results, fight stats, fighter details and fighter tale of the tape.

  GPL-3.0. Last pushed 2026-10-11. Its README says a scheduled job refreshes the files daily; the events file listed UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Duncan, 2026-10-10, as its latest event.

• mtoto/ufc.stats

  An R package holding UFC fight statistics as a data frame, one row per fighter per round with 37 variables.

  GitHub shows a custom licence. Last commit 2026-07-18. Its README says it is updated with the latest events.

• ESPN UFC JSON

  ESPN's public UFC scoreboard and core API: cards, results and fight totals, which FighterAPI also reads.

  Live. Free, no key, undocumented. The scoreboard call answered with HTTP 200 on 2026-10-14.

Side by side

Example call

One fight, UFC 332's women's flyweight title fight: the result and method, a fighter's stat sheet and Elo change, a round's lines and an opening and closing moneyline. On the free side this is a scrape of the fight page joined to results and prices from elsewhere.

curl -X POST https://mcp.fighterapi.com/v1/get_fight \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "bout_id": "401912278"
}'

{"data": {"bout": {"bout_id": "401912278", "event_id": "600061182", "event_name": "UFC 332: Silva vs. Wang", "event_date": "2026-10-03", "starts_at": "2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z", "weight_class": "Women's Flyweight", "card_segment": "main", "match_number": 1, "title_fight": true, "scheduled_rounds": 5, "status": "final", "fighter_a": "4054605", "fighter_a_name": "Natalia Silva", "fighter_b": "4215200", "fighter_b_name": "Wang Cong", "winner": "4054605", "method": "decision---unanimous", "method_display": "Decision - Unanimous", "end_round": 5, "end_clock": "5:00", "duration_seconds": 1500, "judges_scores": "48-47 | 49-46 | 48-47", "referee": "Marc Goddard"}, "fighters": [{"fighter_id": "4054605", "name": "Natalia Silva", "stats": {"fighter_id": "4054605", "knock_downs": 1, "sig_strikes_attempted": 216, "sig_strikes_landed": 109, "takedowns_attempted": 5, "takedowns_landed": 3, "time_in_control_seconds": 252}, "elo": {"before": 1633, "after": 1643}}], "rounds": [{"fighter_id": "4054605", "fighter_name": "Natalia Silva", "round": 1, "knock_downs": 0, "sig_landed": 16, "sig_attempted": 40, "total_landed": 20, "total_attempted": 44, "td_landed": 1, "td_attempted": 1, "sub_attempts": 0, "reversals": 0, "control_seconds": 88, "head_landed": 12, "head_attempted": 33, "body_landed": 3, "body_attempted": 4, "leg_landed": 1, "leg_attempted": 3, "distance_landed": 12, "distance_attempted": 34, "clinch_landed": 4, "clinch_attempted": 5, "ground_landed": 0, "ground_attempted": 1}], "odds": [{"provider": "BetMGM", "a_open": -220, "a_close": -220, "a_current": -220, "b_open": 180, "b_close": 180, "b_current": 180, "total_rounds": null}]}}

The response is cut to one fighter, a handful of stat fields, the first round and the first sportsbook here (the full response has both fighters' complete sheets and every round and book). Responses are wrapped in a data object. get_fight costs 5 credits.

Use the free UFC data sources instead if

• You are doing a one-off analysis and the free CSVs from the UFC Stats mirrors have the columns you need.
• You need fights before 2000. UFC Stats goes back further; FighterAPI starts in 2000.
• You need the numbers the moment UFC Stats posts them, and are set up to run a headless browser and maintain a scraper.
• You need scores during a card. FighterAPI updates each morning.
• Your budget is zero and your time is not.

Questions

Sources

• UFC Stats completed events (returns a browser challenge to plain requests)
• Greco1899/scrape_ufc_stats
• mtoto/ufc.stats
• ESPN UFC scoreboard JSON

Checked October 14, 2026.

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