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Erik Koch
16-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Erik Koch’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record16-6
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L L W L
DivisionLightweight
Age37
Height5' 10"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 10" southpaw all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 5 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 2 decision. Top 16% of Lightweights: stuffs 81% of the takedowns tried on 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknamePhoenix
NationalityUnited States
HometownCedar Rapids, Iowa
Fighting out ofRoufusport
Height5' 10"
Reach71.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age37
Date of birthOct 04, 1988
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record16-6
Finish split5 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Erik Koch’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 / min2.33
Striking accuracy42%
Strikes absorbed / min2.82
Striking defence47%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.02
Takedown accuracy42%
Takedown defence81%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.00

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.
Striking46
Defence48
Grappling / TD50
Cardio29
Chin27
Fight IQ40

Strike zones

Strike zones

Erik Koch

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

HEAD71.1%ACC 34%BODY17.0%ACC 83%LEGS11.9%ACC 78%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 71.1% upstairs — +9.0 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
71.1% acc 34%+9.0 vs field
BODY
17.0% acc 83%−3.8 vs field
LEGS
11.9% acc 78%−5.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 61%CLINCH 19%GROUND 20%

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 · 235 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Erik Koch

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

1.02takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.02 landed per 15 minutes — −1.11 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS29
1.02 / 15m−1.11 vs field
ATTEMPTS22
2.43 / 15m−2.98 vs field
ACCURACY60
42%−2pp vs field
SUB ATT62
1.00 / 15m−0.30 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: 16-6. In the UFC: 5-5. Erik Koch’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
2019-07-27WKyle StewartDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 240: Holloway vs. Edgar
2018-01-27LKing GreenDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Brunson 2
2017-06-25LClay GuidaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Lee
2016-05-29WShane CampbellSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs Garbrandt
2014-05-10LDaron CruickshankKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Brown vs Silva
2014-02-22WRafaello OliveiraKO/TKOR1UFC 170: Rousey vs McMann
2013-08-31LDustin PoirierDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 164: Henderson vs Pettis 2
2013-01-26LRicardo LamasKO/TKOR2UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Dodson
2011-09-17WJonathan BrookinsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Shields vs Ellenberger
2011-03-19WRaphael AssuncaoKO/TKOR1UFC 128: Shogun vs Jones

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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