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David Michaud
11-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record11-3
Current streak1 loss
Last 3 (UFC)L W L
DivisionLightweight
Age37
Height5' 9"
StanceOrthodox

5' 9" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 1 UFC win — 1 decision. Top 17% of Lightweights: completes 58% of his takedown attempts.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameBullDawg
NationalityUnited States
HometownBrookings, South Dakota
Fighting out ofMMA Lab
Height5' 9"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age37
Date of birthNov 10, 1988
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record11-3
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over David Michaud’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 / min3.25
Striking accuracy43%
Strikes absorbed / min4.45
Striking defence54%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.53
Takedown accuracy58%
Takedown defence77%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.70

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.
Striking58
Defence41
Grappling / TD68
Cardio63
Chin limited sample51
Fight IQ56

Strike zones

Strike zones

David Michaud

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

HEAD73.4%ACC 38%BODY20.7%ACC 72%LEGS5.9%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 73.4% upstairs — +11.3 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
73.4% acc 38%+11.3 vs field
BODY
20.7% acc 72%−0.1 vs field
LEGS
5.9%−11.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 65%CLINCH 16%GROUND 19%

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.

3 UFC fights · 135 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

David Michaud

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

2.53takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 2.53 takedowns per 15 minutes at 58% completion — +14pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS73
2.53 / 15m+0.40 vs field
ATTEMPTS49
4.36 / 15m−1.04 vs field
ACCURACY83
58%+14pp vs field
SUB ATT47
0.70 / 15m−0.60 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: 11-3. In the UFC: 1-2. David Michaud’s last 3 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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