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Chad Mendes
18-5tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Chad Mendes’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Wrestler

Pro record18-5
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L L W
DivisionFeatherweight
Age41
Height5' 6"
StanceOrthodox

5' 6" orthodox wrestler campaigning at Featherweight. 9 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 3 decision. Best of Featherweights: stuffs 100% of the takedowns tried on him and avoids 67% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameMoney
NationalityUnited States
HometownHanford, California
Fighting out ofTeam Alpha Male
Height5' 6"
Reach66.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age41
Date of birthMay 01, 1985
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record18-5
Finish split9 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Chad Mendes’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 / min2.78
Striking accuracy49%
Strikes absorbed / min2.35
Striking defence67%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min4.13
Takedown accuracy55%
Takedown defence100%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.30

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.
Striking60
Defence84
Grappling / TD63
Cardio54
Chin11
Fight IQ54

Strike zones

Strike zones

Chad Mendes

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

HEAD67.4%ACC 44%BODY8.7%ACC 67%LEGS23.9%ACC 73%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 23.9% to the legs — +7.1 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
67.4% acc 44%+4.4 vs field
BODY
8.7% acc 67%−11.5 vs field
LEGS
23.9% acc 73%+7.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 68%CLINCH 6%GROUND 26%

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 · 381 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Chad Mendes

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

4.13takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 4.13 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.77 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS88
4.13 / 15m+1.77 vs field
ATTEMPTS74
7.51 / 15m+1.64 vs field
ACCURACY81
55%+12pp vs field
SUB ATT19
0.30 / 15m−0.97 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: 18-5. In the UFC: 9-5. Chad Mendes’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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