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Brandon Vera
15-7tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record15-7
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W D L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age48
Height6' 3"
StanceOrthodox

6' 3" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 8 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 decision. Top 18% of Light Heavyweights: connects with 56% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Truth
NationalityUnited States
HometownSan Diego, California
Fighting out ofAlliance MMA
Height6' 3"
Reach78.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age48
Date of birthOct 10, 1977
Weight230 lbs.
Pro record15-7
Finish split8 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Brandon Vera’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 / min3.03
Striking accuracy56%
Strikes absorbed / min2.81
Striking defence52%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.70
Takedown accuracy53%
Takedown defence59%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

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.
Striking70
Defence62
Grappling / TD38
Cardio29
Chin41
Fight IQ48

Strike zones

Strike zones

Brandon Vera

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

HEAD36.2%ACC 36%BODY28.0%ACC 79%LEGS35.8%ACC 85%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 35.8% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +18.8 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
36.2% acc 36%−27.6 vs field
BODY
28.0% acc 79%+8.8 vs field
LEGS
35.8% acc 85%+18.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 58%CLINCH 34%GROUND 8%

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.

16 UFC fights · 503 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Brandon Vera

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

0.70takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.70 takedowns and 0.20 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS21
0.70 / 15m−1.57 vs field
ATTEMPTS10
1.32 / 15m−4.11 vs field
ACCURACY76
53%+10pp vs field
SUB ATT17
0.20 / 15m−1.39 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: 15-7. In the UFC: 8-7-1. Brandon Vera’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.

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