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Besam Yousef
7-4tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Besam Yousef’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record7-4
Current streak2 losses
Last 2 (UFC)L L
DivisionWelterweight
Age41
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. Top 14% of Welterweights: completes 66% of his takedown attempts and connects with 53% of his significant strikes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalitySweden
HometownGothenburg
Fighting out ofGladius MMA
Height5' 11"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age41
Date of birthMar 25, 1985
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record7-4
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Besam Yousef’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 / min3.14
Striking accuracy53%
Strikes absorbed / min3.98
Striking defence38%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.33
Takedown accuracy66%
Takedown defence50%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight 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 Welterweight.
Striking72
Defence22
Grappling / TD64
Cardio limited sample62
Chin limited sample68
Fight IQ58

Strike zones

Strike zones

Besam Yousef

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

HEAD62.0%ACC 44%BODY32.4%ACC 88%LEGS5.6%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Body puncher 32.4% of his landed strikes go to the body — +11.3 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
62.0% acc 44%−0.3 vs field
BODY
32.4% acc 88%+11.3 vs field
LEGS
5.6%−11.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 34%CLINCH 63%GROUND 3%

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.

Limited sample2 UFC fights · 71 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Besam Yousef

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

1.33takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.33 landed per 15 minutes — −0.66 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS43
1.33 / 15m−0.66 vs field
ATTEMPTS21
2.02 / 15m−2.92 vs field
ACCURACY86
66%+20pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.32 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 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 Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 7-4. In the UFC: 0-2. Besam Yousef’s last 2 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 — 2 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2013-04-06LPapy AbediDecision (split)R3UFC on FUEL TV: Mousasi vs Latifi
2012-04-14LSimeon ThoresenSubmissionR2UFC on FUEL TV: Gustafsson vs Silva

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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