This Saturday Hooker vs Parnasse · Accor Arena Paris France See this week's picks →
FightIQ · Record · Brandon Royval
Brandon Royval
18-9tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Brandon Royval’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler

Pro record18-9
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L L W W
DivisionFlyweight
Age34
Height5' 9"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 9" southpaw submission grappler campaigning at Flyweight. 8 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 3 decision. Top 5% of Flyweights: lands 5.54 significant strikes a minute and completes 75% of his takedown attempts.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameRaw Dawg
NationalityUnited States
HometownEnglewood, Colorado
Fighting out ofFactory X
Height5' 9"
Reach68.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age34
Date of birthAug 16, 1992
Weight125 lbs.
Pro record18-9
Finish split8 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Brandon Royval’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 / min5.54
Striking accuracy41%
Strikes absorbed / min4.25
Striking defence43%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.65
Takedown accuracy75%
Takedown defence45%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.10

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Flyweight 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 Flyweight.
Striking70
Defence24
Grappling / TD56
Cardio94
Chin24
Fight IQ54

Our calls on Brandon Royval’s fights

Every fight of Brandon Royval’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 1 of Brandon Royval’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-07-11Loneer KavanaghBrandon Royval53.5%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 6 of Brandon Royval’s fights, 2 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

Brandon Royval

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

HEAD79.0%ACC 38%BODY14.4%ACC 71%LEGS6.6%ACC 68%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 79.0% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +15.8 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
79.0% acc 38%+15.8 vs field
BODY
14.4% acc 71%−6.4 vs field
LEGS
6.6% acc 68%−9.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 86%CLINCH 6%GROUND 9%

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.

13 UFC fights · 852 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Brandon Royval

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

0.65takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.65 takedowns and 1.10 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS10
0.65 / 15m−1.49 vs field
ATTEMPTS2
0.87 / 15m−4.80 vs field
ACCURACY91
75%+33pp vs field
SUB ATT68
1.10 / 15m−0.04 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.00 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 Flyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 18-9. In the UFC: 8-5. Brandon Royval’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 — 13 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-07-11WLone'er KavanaghSubmissionR3UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2
2025-12-13LManel KapeKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Kape
2025-06-28LJoshua VanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 317: Topuria vs. Oliveira
2024-10-12WTatsuro TairaDecision (split)R5UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Taira
2024-02-24WBrandon MorenoDecision (split)R5UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2
2023-12-16LAlexandre PantojaDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington
2023-04-15WMatheus NicolauKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Allen
2022-05-07WMatt SchnellSubmissionR1UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje
2022-01-15WRogerio BontorinDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Chikadze
2021-08-21LAlexandre PantojaSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Gastelum
2020-11-21LBrandon MorenoKO/TKOR1UFC 255: Figueiredo vs. Perez
2020-09-26WKai Kara-FranceSubmissionR2UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa
2020-05-30WTim ElliottSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Woodley vs. Burns

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.

← See the full public record