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Danny Roberts
18-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Danny Roberts’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher

Pro record18-8
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W W
DivisionWelterweight
Age39
Height6' 1"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 1" southpaw knockout puncher campaigning at Welterweight. 7 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameHot Chocolate
NationalityEngland
HometownLiverpool, Merseyside
Fighting out ofTeam McHale
Height6' 1"
Reach74.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age39
Date of birthJul 14, 1987
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record18-8
Finish split7 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Danny Roberts’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 / min3.18
Striking accuracy39%
Strikes absorbed / min3.73
Striking defence50%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.24
Takedown accuracy9%
Takedown defence57%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight 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 Welterweight.
Striking46
Defence41
Grappling / TD4
Cardio82
Chin5
Fight IQ36

Our calls on Danny Roberts’s fights

We have not called one of Danny Roberts’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 1 of Danny Roberts’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

Danny Roberts

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

HEAD57.5%ACC 30%BODY26.2%ACC 72%LEGS16.3%ACC 86%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 58% head / 26% body / 16% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
57.5% acc 30%−4.8 vs field
BODY
26.2% acc 72%+5.1 vs field
LEGS
16.3% acc 86%−0.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 65%CLINCH 20%GROUND 15%

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 · 405 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Danny Roberts

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

0.24takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.24 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.75 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS2
0.24 / 15m−1.75 vs field
ATTEMPTS31
2.67 / 15m−2.27 vs field
ACCURACY1
9%−37pp vs field
SUB ATT10
0.20 / 15m−1.12 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 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 Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 18-8. In the UFC: 7-7. Danny Roberts’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
2023-07-22LJonny ParsonsKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Aspinall vs. Tybura
2022-11-19LJack Della MaddalenaKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Nzechukwu vs. Cutelaba
2022-05-07LFrancisco TrinaldoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje
2021-10-16WRamazan EmeevDecision (split)R3
2019-11-09WZelim ImadaevKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Zabit vs. Kattar
2019-05-18LMichel PereiraKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Lee
2019-03-16LClaudio SilvaSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Till vs. Masvidal
2018-07-22WDavid ZawadaDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Smith
2018-03-17WOliver EnkampKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Volkov
2017-12-16LNordine TalebKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Lawler vs. Dos Anjos
2017-07-16WBobby NashKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Ponzinibbio
2016-10-08LMike PerryKO/TKOR3UFC 204: Bisping vs. Henderson
2016-04-23WDominique SteeleDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 197: Jones vs Saint Preux
2015-12-10WNathan CoySubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. VanZant

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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