Built from Fernando Padilla’s own numbers — style, standout rate and current form. Not reported prose.
6'1" orthodox bjj specialist with a 2-1 record, age 27. Standout metric: lands 6.5 significant strikes per minute; defends 100% of takedowns. Form: last 5: WLW · 1-fight win streak · 266 days off · Elo 1511.
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.
| Nickname | El Valiente |
| Nationality | Mexico |
| Hometown | Juarez, Chihuahua |
| Fighting out of | Team Oyama |
| Height | 6' 1" |
| Reach | 76.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 29 |
| Date of birth | Dec 15, 1996 |
| Weight | 145 lbs. |
| Pro record | 16-6 |
| Finish split | pending |
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against every fighter on record. Tap any i for what a score measures.
The moat — every call we've made on this fighter, timestamped and graded in public. Nobody else can copy this.
FightIQ has picked Fernando Padilla 3×, 2 correct (2-1 — 66.7% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | Card | We said | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-23 | Luis Pajuelo | UFC Fight Night: Ramos vs Erosa | 52.6% | Correct |
| 2023-09-16 | Kyle Nelson | UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs Campbell | 73.7% | Missed |
| 2023-04-29 | Julian Erosa | UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs Brundage | 56.7% | Correct |
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
Pro record: 16-6. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).
