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Gilbert Urbina
8-5tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

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Pro record8-5
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L L W L
DivisionWelterweight
Age30
Height6' 3"
StanceOrthodox

Gilbert Urbina enters UFC Belgrade at 1-3 in the promotion, with four fights spread across five years.

He debuted Aug. 28, 2021, losing by submission in the second round to Bryan Battle in a middleweight bout. Almost two years passed before his next appearance, a second-round TKO of Orion Cosce on May 20, 2023, at welterweight. That win remains his only one in the UFC.

The two fights since have both ended early against him. Charles Radtke stopped him in the first round on Feb. 3, 2024, and Uros Medic did the same on Aug. 9, 2025.

All four of Urbina's UFC bouts have ended by knockout or submission, and none has gone past the second round. He has never heard a judge's scorecard read in the promotion.

Written 2026-08-01 · ahead of UFC Belgrade — Medic vs Rodriguez. News (#18) — checked against the fight record before publication. The figures above the story are recomputed every build from the official fight record.

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 RGV Bad Boy
NationalityUnited States
HometownWeslaco, Texas
Fighting out ofBMF Ranch
Height6' 3"
Reach75.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age30
Date of birthApr 05, 1996
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record8-5
Finish split2 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO

Career rates facts

Career averages over Gilbert Urbina’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 / min5.57
Striking accuracy56%
Strikes absorbed / min4.62
Striking defence44%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.86
Takedown accuracy44%
Takedown defence0%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.70

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight 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 Welterweight.
Striking92
Defence23
Grappling / TD59
Cardio Round-2 tape only limited sample52
Chin6
Fight IQ46

Our calls on Gilbert Urbina’s fights

Every fight of Gilbert Urbina’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 Gilbert Urbina’s fights in 2026: 0 correct (0–1 — 0% 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
2026-08-01Vlasto CepoVlasto Cepo (against Urbina)66.9%Missed
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Gilbert Urbina’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

Gilbert Urbina

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

HEAD66.7%ACC 52%BODY20.4%ACC 70%LEGS12.9%ACC 70%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 67% head / 20% body / 13% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
66.7% acc 52%+4.4 vs field
BODY
20.4% acc 70%−0.7 vs field
LEGS
12.9% acc 70%−3.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 48%CLINCH 15%GROUND 37%

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.

5 UFC fights · 147 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Gilbert Urbina

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

2.86takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.86 landed per 15 minutes — +0.87 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS78
2.86 / 15m+0.87 vs field
ATTEMPTS73
6.50 / 15m+1.56 vs field
ACCURACY55
44%−2pp vs field
SUB ATT43
0.70 / 15m−0.62 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 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 Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 8-5. In the UFC: 2-3. Gilbert Urbina’s last 5 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 — 5 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-08-01WVlasto CepoKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Medic vs. Rodriguez
2025-08-09LUros MedicKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Hernandez
2024-02-03LCharles RadtkeKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Imavov
2023-05-20WOrion CosceKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Hill
2021-08-28LBryan BattleSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Chikadze

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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