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Chris Saunders
16-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Chris Saunders’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder

Pro record16-8
Current streak1 loss
Last 1 (UFC)L
DivisionLightweight
Age40
Height5' 8"

5' 8" grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. Best of Lightweights: completes 100% of his takedown attempts and avoids 75% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe So Cal Kid
NationalityUnited States
HometownBuena Park, California
Fighting out ofAll In MMA
Height5' 8"
Reachpending
Stancepending
Age40
Date of birthMar 11, 1986
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record16-8
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Chris Saunders’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 / min1.48
Striking accuracy22%
Strikes absorbed / min2.96
Striking defence75%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.70
Takedown accuracy100%
Takedown defence0%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight 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 Lightweight.
Striking11
Defence81
Grappling / TD94
Cardio No round past the first on our tapen/a
Chin limited sample52
Fight IQ60

Strike zones

Strike zones

Chris Saunders

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

HEAD16.7%FIELD 62%BODY0.0%FIELD 21%LEGS83.3%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 83.3% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +66.2 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
16.7%−45.4 vs field
BODY
0.0%−20.8 vs field
LEGS
83.3%+66.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 100%CLINCH 0%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 sample1 UFC fights · 6 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Chris Saunders

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

3.70takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.70 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.57 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS87
3.70 / 15m+1.57 vs field
ATTEMPTS39
3.70 / 15m−1.70 vs field
ACCURACY100
100%+56pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.30 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.22 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 Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 16-8. In the UFC: 0-1. Chris Saunders’s last 1 UFC bout, 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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