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Diego Lopes
28-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Diego Lopes’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

Pro record28-8
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L W L W
DivisionFeatherweight
Age31
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox power striker campaigning at Featherweight. 7 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 2 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityBrazil
HometownManaus, Amazonas
Fighting out ofLobo Gym MMA
Height5' 11"
Reach72.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age31
Date of birthDec 30, 1994
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record28-8
Finish split7 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Diego Lopes’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 / min3.83
Striking accuracy47%
Strikes absorbed / min4.56
Striking defence45%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.88
Takedown accuracy50%
Takedown defence68%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.40

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Featherweight 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 Featherweight.
Striking68
Defence24
Grappling / TD57
Cardio40
Chin97
Fight IQ57

Our calls on Diego Lopes’s fights

Every fight of Diego Lopes’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 2 of Diego Lopes’s fights in 2026: 2 correct (2–0 — 100% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-06-15Steve GarciaDiego Lopes50.2%Correct
2026-01-31Alexander VolkanovskiAlexander Volkanovski (against Lopes)57.6%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 8 of Diego Lopes’s fights, 7 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

Diego Lopes

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

HEAD72.3%ACC 42%BODY12.1%ACC 58%LEGS15.6%ACC 77%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 72.3% upstairs — +9.3 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
72.3% acc 42%+9.3 vs field
BODY
12.1% acc 58%−8.1 vs field
LEGS
15.6% acc 77%−1.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 69%CLINCH 7%GROUND 23%

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.

10 UFC fights · 462 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Diego Lopes

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

0.88takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.88 landed per 15 minutes — −1.48 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS23
0.88 / 15m−1.48 vs field
ATTEMPTS11
1.76 / 15m−4.11 vs field
ACCURACY74
50%+7pp vs field
SUB ATT73
1.40 / 15m+0.13 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.73 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 Featherweight

Recent form

Pro record: 28-8. In the UFC: 7-3. Diego Lopes’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 — 10 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-06-14WSteve GarciaKO/TKOR2UFC Freedom 250
2026-01-31LAlexander VolkanovskiDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 325: Volkanovski vs. Lopes 2
2025-09-13WJean SilvaKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Lopes vs. Silva
2025-04-12LAlexander VolkanovskiDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes
2024-09-14WBrian OrtegaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 306: Riyadh Season Noche UFC
2024-06-29WDan IgeDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 303: Pereira vs. Prochazka 2
2024-04-13WSodiq YusuffKO/TKOR1UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill
2023-11-11WPat SabatiniKO/TKOR1UFC 295: Prochazka vs. Pereira
2023-08-05WGavin TuckerSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Font
2023-05-06LMovsar EvloevDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 288: Sterling vs. Cejudo

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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