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Brian Ortega
16-5tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record16-5
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L L
DivisionFeatherweight
Age35
Height5' 8"
StanceSwitch

5' 8" switch submission grappler campaigning at Featherweight. 8 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 1 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameT-City
NationalityUnited States
HometownTorrance, California
Fighting out ofpending
Height5' 8"
Reach69.0"
StanceSwitch
Age35
Date of birthFeb 21, 1991
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record16-5
Finish split8 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Brian Ortega’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 / min3.84
Striking accuracy37%
Strikes absorbed / min6.38
Striking defence49%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.93
Takedown accuracy25%
Takedown defence54%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.90

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Featherweight 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 Featherweight.
Striking50
Defence20
Grappling / TD34
Cardio88
Chin69
Fight IQ52

Our calls on Brian Ortega’s fights

We have not called one of Brian Ortega’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 3 of Brian Ortega’s fights, 1 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 Ortega

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

HEAD71.2%ACC 31%BODY18.3%ACC 72%LEGS10.5%ACC 85%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 71.2% upstairs — +8.2 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
71.2% acc 31%+8.2 vs field
BODY
18.3% acc 72%−1.9 vs field
LEGS
10.5% acc 85%−6.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 88%CLINCH 7%GROUND 5%

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.

14 UFC fights · 742 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Brian Ortega

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

0.93takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.93 landed per 15 minutes — −1.43 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS25
0.93 / 15m−1.43 vs field
ATTEMPTS34
3.72 / 15m−2.15 vs field
ACCURACY22
25%−18pp vs field
SUB ATT54
0.90 / 15m−0.37 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.73 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 Featherweight

Recent form

Pro record: 16-5. In the UFC: 8-5-1. Brian Ortega’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 — 14 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2025-08-23LAljamain SterlingDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang
2024-09-14LDiego LopesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 306: Riyadh Season Noche UFC
2024-02-24WYair RodriguezSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2
2022-07-16LYair RodriguezKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. Rodriguez
2021-09-25LAlexander VolkanovskiDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega
2020-10-17WChan Sung JungDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. The Korean Zombie
2018-12-08LMax HollowayTKO (doctor)R4UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega
2018-03-03WFrankie EdgarKO/TKOR1UFC 222: Cyborg vs. Kunitskaya
2017-12-09WCub SwansonSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega
2017-07-29WRenato MoicanoSubmissionR3UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones 2
2016-06-04WClay GuidaKO/TKOR3UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping 2
2016-01-02WDiego BrandaoSubmissionR3UFC 195: Lawler vs Condit
2015-06-06WThiago TavaresKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Boetsch vs Henderson
2014-07-26DMike de la TorreOverturnedR1UFC on FOX: Lawler vs Brown

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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