Lightweight · REAL v1.0 (registered) champion; v1.1 (shadow) champion
Descriptive profile. The resume rank is what has been earned; these statistics are context, not a prediction. A test on Oct 20, 2026 found that career statistics add nothing reliable to age, layoff and experience as predictors of the next result (experiments/REGISTER.md, EXP-2026-10-20-14).
Rating 1,740, deviation 119: measured from 16 UFC bouts; a one-bout newcomer sits near 290.
Age 37 (born 1988-11-14) · Height 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) · Reach 70 in (178 cm) · Stance Orthodox · 140 days since last bout (2026-06-14) · Last five 4-1 · Streak W3
Why he is ranked here
Rating 1,740 is the division's 5th highest of 96 board fighters; the ledger stands at +8.3 (+8.3 from quality wins; losses count for three years); 11 quality wins in 15 years, 10 over top-10 opponents, which makes him entrenched; no form penalty (4-1 last five). Score +1.28 = +0.56 (rating term, 70% weight) +0.72 (ledger term, 30% weight) -0.00 (form penalty); he holds the title and sits above the numbered board.
Term
Value
Detail
Score
+1.28
70% rating term + 30% ledger term - form penalty
Rating term
+0.56
resume rating 1,740, scaled against the division's interdecile range
Opp. official rank = the UFC media-panel rank of the opponent on the date (C champion, #1 to #15, unranked; n/a before Feb 2013 or where no official board existed). Model p = the predictive model's pre-fight win chance for him (frozen performance-adjusted Elo; bouts before 2020 were in its tuning sample). Linked opponents have a profile.
Career statistics
Through 2026-10-31, UFC bouts only. Percentile = share of the 96 board fighters at Lightweight at or below this value; high is a position in the division, not a verdict.
Output
Significant strikes landed per minute
6.29
(89th percentile at Lightweight)
Significant strike accuracy
58%
(94th percentile at Lightweight)
Knockdowns scored per 15 minutes
0.67
(79th percentile at Lightweight)
Share of wins by finish
64%
(62nd percentile at Lightweight)
Defence and damage
Significant strikes absorbed per minute
6.83
(95th percentile at Lightweight)
Significant strike defence
51%
(41st percentile at Lightweight)
Knockdowns suffered per 15 minutes
0.30
(58th percentile at Lightweight)
Significant strikes absorbed, career
1,381
(96th percentile at Lightweight)
KO/TKO losses
3 (last 2024-04-13, 932 days ago)
(86th percentile at Lightweight)
Submission losses
2
(95th percentile at Lightweight)
KO/TKO losses per bout over 10 years, each weighted down by the finisher's danger
0.070
(58th percentile at Lightweight)
Grappling
Takedowns landed per 15 minutes
0.30
(19th percentile at Lightweight)
Takedown defence
73%
(64th percentile at Lightweight)
Share of cage time in control
7%
(20th percentile at Lightweight)
Share of significant strikes landed in the clinch or on the ground
16%
(40th percentile at Lightweight)
Style
striker (1.1 takedown attempts per 15 min; 7% control)
Career stage
Age
38.0
(87th percentile at Lightweight)
Age at UFC debut
28.6
(71st percentile at Lightweight)
Years since UFC debut
9.3
(81st percentile at Lightweight)
UFC bouts
16
(85th percentile at Lightweight)
Cage time, minutes
202
(90th percentile at Lightweight)
Bouts per year, last three years
1.3
(49th percentile at Lightweight)
Days since last bout
140
(66th percentile at Lightweight)
Board position since Oct 2023
Position on the registered v1.0 board at each weekly snapshot (C = title holder or reserved, drawn at the top; lower is better).
Predictive rating by bout
Rating after each UFC bout from the frozen predictive model (performance-adjusted Elo, data/processed/elo_history.csv; a debut starts at 1,500). The resume rating's history is not stored, so this is the predictive line, which is a different number from the resume rating in the header.
Trajectory
Recent performances run about 34 points behind the rating: fighters this age typically run 77 points behind their rating, and his own recent results recover 43 of those points.
Component
Points
Meaning
Age component
-77
what fighters aged 38.0 typically run relative to their rating (population curve, all UFC bouts since 2011)
Own recent results
+43
his recency-weighted mean and trend over 16 bouts, shrunk toward zero; trend +2 points a year
Combined
-34
the rating's likely distance from his current performance level, in rating points
Reading
behind rating
ahead of, in line with (within 30 points), or behind the rating
Performance relative to the rating, by age
Each dot is one decided UFC bout at his age then: the performance score minus the rating's expectation, on the score's own scale from -1 to +1 (filled = win, hollow = loss; above zero is better than the rating implied; a finish as a slight favourite is about +0.45). The dashed line is the population curve for all fighters; the solid line is this fighter's own fitted level and trend as of the data date, weighted toward recent bouts. One unit sustained over many bouts corresponds to about 695 rating points; a single bout's residual is noisy.
Held-out evidence (walk-forward 2016 to 2026, EXP-2026-10-21-01): the age curve held in every test year; the individual component is a weak signal (correlation 0.06 with the next bout's residual; among fighters aged 33 or over, the lowest predicted quartile won 38% of next bouts against 53% expected, the highest 48% against 52%) and adds nothing to bout prediction beyond the shadow model. No board uses any of it: the rankings answer who has earned the place, not who wins next (EXP-2026-10-20-09). Method: src/mmalab/decline.py; settings: config/decline.yaml (expectation from the resume rating; one unit of residual is about 695 rating points).
Context flags
Descriptive only. Each line is a population fact about fighters like him, not a forecast for him; the register entries hold the measurements.
Age band: 36 and over (age 37). On the board's own history (3,748 bouts between two board fighters, 2014 to 2026) the higher-scored fighter won 64% of bouts when under 30, 59% at 30 to 32, 57% at 33 to 35 and 42 to 46% at 36 and over (EXP-2026-10-20-09). A population rate, not a forecast for him.
Not raised: no KO/TKO loss in the last 90 days; last bout within 12 months; 16 UFC bouts, more than the provisional limit of 3.
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