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Brian Kelleher
24-16tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record24-16
Current streak4 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L W
DivisionBantamweight
Age40
Height5' 6"
StanceSwitch

5' 6" switch all-rounder campaigning at Bantamweight. 8 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 3 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameBoom
NationalityUnited States
HometownSelden, New York
Fighting out ofMaxum BJJ
Height5' 6"
Reach66.0"
StanceSwitch
Age40
Date of birthAug 19, 1986
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record24-16
Finish split8 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Brian Kelleher’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 / min3.31
Striking accuracy41%
Strikes absorbed / min4.59
Striking defence54%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.68
Takedown accuracy41%
Takedown defence60%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.70

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Bantamweight 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 Bantamweight.
Striking54
Defence38
Grappling / TD54
Cardio92
Chin41
Fight IQ56

Our calls on Brian Kelleher’s fights

We have not called one of Brian Kelleher’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 2 of Brian Kelleher’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

Brian Kelleher

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

HEAD65.1%ACC 35%BODY15.2%ACC 48%LEGS19.7%ACC 78%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 65% head / 15% body / 20% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
65.1% acc 35%+3.5 vs field
BODY
15.2% acc 48%−6.7 vs field
LEGS
19.7% acc 78%+3.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 78%CLINCH 7%GROUND 15%

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.

17 UFC fights · 442 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Brian Kelleher

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

1.68takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.68 landed per 15 minutes — −0.40 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS53
1.68 / 15m−0.40 vs field
ATTEMPTS44
4.10 / 15m−1.44 vs field
ACCURACY59
41%+0pp vs field
SUB ATT51
0.70 / 15m−0.37 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.45 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 Bantamweight

Recent form

Pro record: 24-16. In the UFC: 8-9. Brian Kelleher’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 — 17 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2024-07-20LCody GibsonSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Lemos vs. Jandiroba
2023-12-16LCody GarbrandtKO/TKOR1UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington
2022-06-25LMario BautistaSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Gamrot
2022-03-05LUmar NurmagomedovSubmissionR1UFC 272: Covington vs. Masvidal
2022-01-15WKevin CroomDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Chikadze
2021-08-21WDomingo PilarteDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Gastelum
2021-02-13LRicky SimonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 258: Usman vs. Burns
2020-09-05WRay RodriguezSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai
2020-06-06LCody StamannDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 250: Nunes vs. Spencer
2020-05-13WHunter AzureKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teixeira
2020-01-18WOde OsbourneSubmissionR1UFC 246: McGregor vs. Cowboy
2018-12-29LMontel JacksonSubmissionR1UFC 232: Jones vs. Gustafsson 2
2018-05-12LJohn LinekerKO/TKOR3UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington
2018-02-24WRenan BaraoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Stephens
2017-10-21WDamian StasiakKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Till
2017-07-22LMarlon VeraSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Weidman vs. Gastelum
2017-06-03WIuri AlcantaraSubmissionR1UFC 212: Aldo vs. Holloway

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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