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Daron Cruickshank
18-10tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record18-10
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L D W
DivisionLightweight
Age41
Height5' 8"
StanceSwitch

5' 8" switch knockout puncher campaigning at Lightweight. 6 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameDetroit Superstar
NationalityUnited States
HometownWayne, Michigan
Fighting out ofMichigan Top Team
Height5' 8"
Reach72.0"
StanceSwitch
Age41
Date of birthJun 11, 1985
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record18-10
Finish split6 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Daron Cruickshank’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 / min2.88
Striking accuracy38%
Strikes absorbed / min2.98
Striking defence57%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.04
Takedown accuracy41%
Takedown defence60%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

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.
Striking44
Defence64
Grappling / TD43
Cardio18
Chin97
Fight IQ53

Strike zones

Strike zones

Daron Cruickshank

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

HEAD56.7%ACC 29%BODY27.6%ACC 58%LEGS15.7%ACC 81%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 57% head / 28% body / 16% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
56.7% acc 29%−5.4 vs field
BODY
27.6% acc 58%+6.8 vs field
LEGS
15.7% acc 81%−1.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 72%CLINCH 16%GROUND 11%

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.

13 UFC fights · 381 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Daron Cruickshank

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

2.04takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.04 landed per 15 minutes — −0.09 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS61
2.04 / 15m−0.09 vs field
ATTEMPTS56
4.98 / 15m−0.43 vs field
ACCURACY58
41%−3pp vs field
SUB ATT11
0.20 / 15m−1.10 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: 18-10. In the UFC: 6-6-1. Daron Cruickshank’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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