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Erik Silva
9-4tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record9-4
Current streak3 losses
Last 3 (UFC)L L L
DivisionFeatherweight
Age39
Height5' 9"
StanceOrthodox

5' 9" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Featherweight. Top 1% of Featherweights: connects with 67% of his significant strikes and completes 80% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe King
NationalityVenezuela
HometownCaracas, Capital District
Fighting out ofAntonio Silva Martial Arts
Height5' 9"
Reach71.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age39
Date of birthMar 16, 1987
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record9-4
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Erik Silva’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 / min2.06
Striking accuracy67%
Strikes absorbed / min1.52
Striking defence40%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.26
Takedown accuracy80%
Takedown defence60%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

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.
Striking65
Defence52
Grappling / TD86
Cardio limited sample9
Chin limited sample40
Fight IQ50

Our calls on Erik Silva’s fights

Every fight of Erik Silva’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 1 of Erik Silva’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 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
2026-02-28Francis MarshallFrancis Marshall (against Silva)75.3%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 1 of Erik Silva’s fights, 1 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

Erik Silva

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

HEAD53.9%ACC 56%BODY26.9%FIELD 20%LEGS19.2%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 54% head / 27% body / 19% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
53.9% acc 56%−9.1 vs field
BODY
26.9%+6.7 vs field
LEGS
19.2%+2.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 69%CLINCH 27%GROUND 4%

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.

Limited sample3 UFC fights · 26 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Erik Silva

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

3.26takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.26 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +0.90 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS78
3.26 / 15m+0.90 vs field
ATTEMPTS40
4.07 / 15m−1.79 vs field
ACCURACY94
80%+37pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.27 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: 9-4. In the UFC: 0-3. Erik Silva’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.

Full UFC career — 3 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-02-28LFrancis MarshallSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Kavanagh
2024-02-24LMuhammad NaimovKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2
2022-12-10LTJ BrownSubmissionR3UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev

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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