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Eric Shelton
12-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record12-6
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L W L
DivisionFlyweight
Age35
Height5' 6"
StanceOrthodox

5' 6" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Flyweight. 2 UFC wins — 2 decision. Top 10% of Flyweights: absorbs only 1.88 significant strikes a minute and avoids 63% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameShowtime
NationalityUnited States
HometownLawton, Oklahoma
Fighting out ofTake The Fight Academy
Height5' 6"
Reach68.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age35
Date of birthFeb 02, 1991
Weight125 lbs.
Pro record12-6
Finish split2 UFC wins — 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Eric Shelton’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 / min2.57
Striking accuracy42%
Strikes absorbed / min1.88
Striking defence63%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.83
Takedown accuracy51%
Takedown defence46%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Flyweight 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 Flyweight.
Striking43
Defence88
Grappling / TD54
Cardio59
Chin85
Fight IQ66

Strike zones

Strike zones

Eric Shelton

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

HEAD79.2%ACC 38%BODY13.4%ACC 80%LEGS7.4%ACC 77%
FightIQ read Ground striker 41% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
79.2% acc 38%+16.0 vs field
BODY
13.4% acc 80%−7.4 vs field
LEGS
7.4% acc 77%−8.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 58%CLINCH 1%GROUND 41%

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.

6 UFC fights · 231 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Eric Shelton

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

2.83takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 2.83 takedowns per 15 minutes at 51% completion — +9pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS71
2.83 / 15m+0.69 vs field
ATTEMPTS59
5.55 / 15m−0.12 vs field
ACCURACY78
51%+9pp vs field
SUB ATT14
0.20 / 15m−0.94 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.00 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 Flyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 12-6. In the UFC: 2-4. Eric Shelton’s last 6 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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