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Anthony Smith
38-22tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Anthony Smith’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher

Pro record38-22
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age38
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 13 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 2 decision.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.

NicknameLionheart
NationalityUnited States
HometownOmaha, Nebraska
Fighting out ofFactory X
Height6' 4"
Reach76.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age38
Date of birthJul 26, 1988
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record38-22
Finish split13 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Anthony Smith’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min3.19
Striking accuracy49%
Strikes absorbed / min5.04
Striking defence44%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.44
Takedown accuracy22%
Takedown defence50%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.60

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light Heavyweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Light Heavyweight.
Striking62
Defence28
Grappling / TD21
Cardio2
Chin50
Fight IQ33

Our calls on Anthony Smith’s fights

We have not called one of Anthony Smith’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 7 of Anthony Smith’s fights, 4 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Anthony Smith

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD62.7%ACC 42%BODY18.5%ACC 67%LEGS18.8%ACC 89%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 63% head / 18% body / 19% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
62.7% acc 42%−1.1 vs field
BODY
18.5% acc 67%−0.7 vs field
LEGS
18.8% acc 89%+1.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 88%CLINCH 8%GROUND 4%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

25 UFC fights · 840 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Anthony Smith

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.44takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.44 takedowns and 0.60 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS8
0.44 / 15m−1.83 vs field
ATTEMPTS20
2.00 / 15m−3.43 vs field
ACCURACY16
22%−21pp vs field
SUB ATT40
0.60 / 15m−0.99 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 38-22. In the UFC: 13-12. Anthony Smith’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

Full UFC career — 25 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2025-04-26LZhang MingyangKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Machado Garry vs. Prates
2024-12-07LDominick ReyesKO/TKOR2UFC 310: Pantoja vs. Asakura
2024-06-29LRoman DolidzeDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 303: Pereira vs. Prochazka 2
2024-05-04WVitor PetrinoSubmissionR1UFC 301: Pantoja vs. Erceg
2023-12-09LKhalil Rountree Jr.KO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Gutierrez
2023-08-26WRyan SpannDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie
2023-05-13LJohnny WalkerDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Almeida
2022-07-30LMagomed AnkalaevKO/TKOR2UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2
2021-09-18WRyan SpannSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann
2021-04-24WJimmy CruteTKO (doctor)R1UFC 261: Usman vs. Masvidal 2
2020-11-28WDevin ClarkSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Clark
2020-08-29LAleksandar RakicDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakic
2020-05-13LGlover TeixeiraKO/TKOR5UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teixeira
2019-06-01WAlexander GustafssonSubmissionR4UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Smith
2019-03-02LJon JonesDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 235: Jones vs. Smith
2018-10-27WVolkan OezdemirSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Oezdemir vs. Smith
2018-07-22WMauricio RuaKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Smith
2018-06-09WRashad EvansKO/TKOR1UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2
2018-02-03LThiago SantosKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders
2017-09-16WHector LombardKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Branch
2017-04-15WAndrew SanchezKO/TKOR3UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Reis
2016-12-03WElvis MutapcicKO/TKOR2The Ultimate Fighter: Tournament of Champions Finale
2016-07-08LCezar FerreiraDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Joanna vs. Team Cláudia Finale
2016-02-21WLeonardo GuimaraesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs Cowboy
2013-06-08LAntonio Braga NetoSubmissionR1UFC on FUEL TV: Nogueira vs. Werdum

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

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