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Dakota Bush
8-4tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record8-4
Current streak2 losses
Last 2 (UFC)L L
DivisionLightweight
Age32
Height5' 10"
StanceOrthodox

5' 10" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
HometownSt. Clair, Missouri
Fighting out ofThe Smith Pit
Height5' 10"
Reach73.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age32
Date of birthJun 09, 1994
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record8-4
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Dakota Bush’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 / min2.77
Striking accuracy38%
Strikes absorbed / min4.42
Striking defence41%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.40
Takedown accuracy33%
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.
Striking42
Defence22
Grappling / TD54
Cardio limited sample30
Chin limited sample15
Fight IQ33

Strike zones

Strike zones

Dakota Bush

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

HEAD48.1%ACC 30%BODY15.4%ACC 35%LEGS36.5%ACC 70%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 36.5% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +19.4 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
48.1% acc 30%−14.0 vs field
BODY
15.4% acc 35%−5.4 vs field
LEGS
36.5% acc 70%+19.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 94%CLINCH 4%GROUND 2%

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 · 52 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Dakota Bush

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

2.40takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.40 landed per 15 minutes — +0.27 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS69
2.40 / 15m+0.27 vs field
ATTEMPTS75
7.27 / 15m+1.87 vs field
ACCURACY39
33%−11pp 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: 8-4. In the UFC: 0-2. Dakota Bush’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.

Full UFC career — 2 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2022-01-15LViacheslav BorshchevKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Chikadze
2021-04-17LAustin HubbardDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Gastelum

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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