Fighter Profile: Levi Rodrigues

Background

Brazilian fighter who earned a UFC contract on Dana White’s Contender Series, competing under the name Levi Rodrigues Jr. Public reporting on his career is limited, so this profile keeps strictly to what is documented.

Career timeline

• Won a UFC contract on Dana White’s Contender Series in October 2025, knocking out Freddy Vidal in the first round.
• That result was overturned to a no contest after he tested positive for 19-norandrosterone, a metabolite of the anabolic steroid nandrolone.
• The Nevada Athletic Commission issued a nine-month suspension and a fine of $1,000.60.
• He told MMAjunkie that he had used nandrolone to treat a back injury between May and July 2024, more than a year before his Contender Series appearance.
• He became eligible to return on 14 July 2026.

Fight craft

The verifiable public record of Rodrigues’s fighting is thin — essentially one high-profile appearance, a first-round knockout, which was subsequently vacated. That is not enough to give an honest stylistic breakdown, and we would rather say so than construct one from a single highlight. What can be said is that he arrived with a finishing reputation and has yet to compete under the UFC banner.

In the modern MMA landscape

Our wider MMA analysis lists Rodrigues in its anti-doping table, including the Nevada sanction and a July 2026 return date, and those details hold up. The point that table misses is that this was not a UFC bout at all: the sanction and the overturned result both relate to his Contender Series appearance, and he has not yet had a fight inside the promotion.

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Sources

• Sherdog — Recent UFC signee suspended nine months for positive steroid test
• Yahoo Sports — Contender Series winner suspended nine months, win overturned to no contest
• UFC — Levi Rodrigues Jr. athlete page

Record and competitive status checked 1 August 2026.