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Fabio Maldonado
23-11tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Fabio Maldonado’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Technical striker

Pro record23-11
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L W
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age46
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox technical striker campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 5 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 3 decision. Top 9% of Light Heavyweights: lands 5.29 significant strikes a minute and connects with 58% of his significant strikes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameCaipira de Aco
NationalityBrazil
HometownSorocaba, Sao Paulo
Fighting out ofpending
Height6' 1"
Reach75.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age46
Date of birthMar 17, 1980
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record23-11
Finish split5 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Fabio Maldonado’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 / min5.29
Striking accuracy58%
Strikes absorbed / min4.31
Striking defence53%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.44
Takedown accuracy57%
Takedown defence61%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.60

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light Heavyweight 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking88
Defence48
Grappling / TD43
Cardio96
Chin75
Fight IQ70

Strike zones

Strike zones

Fabio Maldonado

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

HEAD63.6%ACC 52%BODY35.8%ACC 75%LEGS0.6%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Body puncher 35.8% of his landed strikes go to the body — +16.6 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
63.6% acc 52%−0.2 vs field
BODY
35.8% acc 75%+16.6 vs field
LEGS
0.6%−16.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 67%CLINCH 26%GROUND 7%

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.

11 UFC fights · 717 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Fabio Maldonado

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

0.44takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.44 takedowns and 0.60 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS8
0.44 / 15m−1.83 vs field
ATTEMPTS5
0.77 / 15m−4.66 vs field
ACCURACY81
57%+14pp vs field
SUB ATT40
0.60 / 15m−0.99 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.96 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 Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 23-11. In the UFC: 5-6. Fabio Maldonado’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 — 11 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2015-11-07LCorey AndersonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs Henderson 3
2015-04-25LQuinton JacksonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 186: Johnson vs Horiguchi
2014-10-25WHans StringerKO/TKOR2UFC 179: Aldo vs Mendes 2
2014-05-31LStipe MiocicKO/TKOR1
2014-03-23WGian VillanteDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Henderson 2
2013-10-09WJoey BeltranDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Maia vs Shields
2013-05-18WRoger HollettDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold
2012-10-13LGlover TeixeiraTKO (doctor)R2UFC 153: Silva vs Bonnar
2012-05-15LIgor PokrajacDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FUEL TV: Korean Zombie vs Poirier
2011-06-04LKyle KingsburyDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs Team dos Santos Finale
2010-10-16WJames McSweeneyKO/TKOR3UFC 120: Bisping vs Akiyama

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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