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Fernando Padilla
16-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Fernando Padilla’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Volume boxer

Pro record16-6
Current streak1 loss
Last 4 (UFC)L W L W
DivisionFeatherweight
Age29
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox volume boxer campaigning at Featherweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission. Best of Featherweights: stuffs 100% of the takedowns tried on him and lands 6.07 significant strikes a minute.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameEl Valiente
NationalityMexico
HometownJuarez, Chihuahua
Fighting out ofTeam Oyama
Height6' 1"
Reach76.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age29
Date of birthDec 15, 1996
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record16-6
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission

Career rates facts

Career averages over Fernando Padilla’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 / min6.07
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min5.74
Striking defence52%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.00
Takedown accuracy0%
Takedown defence100%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.60

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.
Striking66
Defence30
Grappling / TD39
Cardio limited sample59
Chin28
Fight IQ44

Our calls on Fernando Padilla’s fights

We have not called one of Fernando Padilla’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 4 of Fernando Padilla’s fights, 3 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

Fernando Padilla

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

HEAD65.5%ACC 32%BODY19.6%ACC 74%LEGS14.9%ACC 82%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 66% head / 20% body / 15% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
65.5% acc 32%+2.5 vs field
BODY
19.6% acc 74%−0.6 vs field
LEGS
14.9% acc 82%−1.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 80%CLINCH 8%GROUND 12%

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.

4 UFC fights · 148 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Fernando Padilla

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

0.00takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.00 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.36 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m−2.36 vs field
ATTEMPTS
Attempts per 15 needs both a landed rate and a completion rate; one of them is missing, so we do not divide.
n/a
ACCURACY
No takedown attempt on the record — UFCStats writes 0% here, which is not a completion rate.
n/a
SUB ATT39
0.60 / 15m−0.67 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: 16-6. In the UFC: 2-2. Fernando Padilla’s last 4 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 — 4 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2024-12-14LSean WoodsonKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Buckley
2024-03-23WLuis PajueloSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Ribas vs. Namajunas
2023-09-16LKyle NelsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Shevchenko 2
2023-04-29WJulian ErosaKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Simon

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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