Middleweight · 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 1,753, deviation 105: measured from 25 UFC bouts; a one-bout newcomer sits near 290.
Age 35 (born 1991-02-27) · Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) · Reach 76 in (193 cm) · Stance Orthodox · 176 days since last bout (2026-05-09) · Last five 3-2 · Streak W2
Why he is ranked here
Rating 1,753 is the division's 3rd highest of 79 board fighters; the ledger stands at +6.3 (+7.0 from quality wins, +0.3 from close losses to top-5 fighters, less 1.0 for blowout losses; losses count for three years); 8 quality wins in 15 years, 6 over top-10 opponents, which makes him entrenched; no form penalty (3-2 last five). Score +1.00 = +0.58 (rating term, 70% weight) +0.42 (ledger term, 30% weight) -0.00 (form penalty); he holds the title and sits above the numbered board.
Term
Value
Detail
Score
+1.00
70% rating term + 30% ledger term - form penalty
Rating term
+0.58
resume rating 1,753, 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 79 board fighters at Middleweight at or below this value; high is a position in the division, not a verdict.
Output
Significant strikes landed per minute
5.98
(92nd percentile at Middleweight)
Significant strike accuracy
43%
(14th percentile at Middleweight)
Knockdowns scored per 15 minutes
0.26
(46th percentile at Middleweight)
Share of wins by finish
33%
(24th percentile at Middleweight)
Defence and damage
Significant strikes absorbed per minute
4.53
(78th percentile at Middleweight)
Significant strike defence
61%
(91st percentile at Middleweight)
Knockdowns suffered per 15 minutes
0.11
(39th percentile at Middleweight)
Significant strikes absorbed, career
1,842
(100th percentile at Middleweight)
KO/TKO losses
2 (last 2022-07-02, 1,583 days ago)
(82nd percentile at Middleweight)
Submission losses
0
(59th percentile at Middleweight)
KO/TKO losses per bout over 10 years, each weighted down by the finisher's danger
0.056
(53rd percentile at Middleweight)
Grappling
Takedowns landed per 15 minutes
0.66
(30th percentile at Middleweight)
Takedown defence
69%
(56th percentile at Middleweight)
Share of cage time in control
8%
(25th percentile at Middleweight)
Share of significant strikes landed in the clinch or on the ground
8%
(14th percentile at Middleweight)
Style
striker (1.1 takedown attempts per 15 min; 8% control)
Career stage
Age
35.7
(77th percentile at Middleweight)
Age at UFC debut
23.0
(12th percentile at Middleweight)
Years since UFC debut
12.6
(96th percentile at Middleweight)
UFC bouts
25
(96th percentile at Middleweight)
Cage time, minutes
407
(100th percentile at Middleweight)
Bouts per year, last three years
1.7
(44th percentile at Middleweight)
Days since last bout
176
(77th percentile at Middleweight)
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 are in line with the rating (-16 points).
Component
Points
Meaning
Age component
-49
what fighters aged 35.7 typically run relative to their rating (population curve, all UFC bouts since 2011)
Own recent results
+33
his recency-weighted mean and trend over 25 bouts, shrunk toward zero; trend +3 points a year
Combined
-16
the rating's likely distance from his current performance level, in rating points
Reading
in line with 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: 33 to 35 (age 35). 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; 25 UFC bouts, more than the provisional limit of 3.
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