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Carlos Candelario
8-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record8-3
Current streak2 losses
Last 2 (UFC)L L
DivisionFlyweight
Age35
Height5' 8"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 8" southpaw all-rounder campaigning at Flyweight.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Cannon
NationalityUnited States
HometownNew Britain, Connecticut
Fighting out ofUnderdog Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Height5' 8"
Reach68.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age35
Date of birthJun 04, 1991
Weight125 lbs.
Pro record8-3
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Carlos Candelario’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 / min3.97
Striking accuracy46%
Strikes absorbed / min5.17
Striking defence44%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.28
Takedown accuracy36%
Takedown defence53%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.30

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.
Striking72
Defence18
Grappling / TD44
Cardio limited sample17
Chin limited sample32
Fight IQ37

Strike zones

Strike zones

Carlos Candelario

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

HEAD47.4%ACC 29%BODY32.1%ACC 68%LEGS20.5%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Body puncher 32.1% of his landed strikes go to the body — +11.3 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
47.4% acc 29%−15.8 vs field
BODY
32.1% acc 68%+11.3 vs field
LEGS
20.5%+4.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 97%CLINCH 3%GROUND 0%

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 · 78 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Carlos Candelario

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

2.28takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.28 landed per 15 minutes — +0.14 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS61
2.28 / 15m+0.14 vs field
ATTEMPTS66
6.33 / 15m+0.67 vs field
ACCURACY51
36%−6pp vs field
SUB ATT19
0.30 / 15m−0.84 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: 8-3. In the UFC: 0-2. Carlos Candelario’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.

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