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Ilir Latifi
17-9tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Ilir Latifi’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record17-9
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W W L L
DivisionHeavyweight
Age44
Height5' 10"
StanceOrthodox

5' 10" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Heavyweight. 9 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 4 decision. Best of Heavyweights: stuffs 100% of the takedowns tried on him and avoids 56% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Sledgehammer
NationalitySweden
HometownMalmo
Fighting out ofAllstars Training Center
Height5' 10"
Reach73.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age44
Date of birthJul 28, 1982
Weight230 lbs.
Pro record17-9
Finish split9 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 4 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Ilir Latifi’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 / min2.05
Striking accuracy45%
Strikes absorbed / min2.93
Striking defence56%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.11
Takedown accuracy35%
Takedown defence100%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.30

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the 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 Heavyweight.
Striking42
Defence71
Grappling / TD37
Cardio35
Chin55
Fight IQ48

Our calls on Ilir Latifi’s fights

We have not called one of Ilir Latifi’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 1 of Ilir Latifi’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

Ilir Latifi

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

HEAD67.0%ACC 38%BODY18.3%ACC 71%LEGS14.7%ACC 83%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 67% head / 18% body / 15% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
67.0% acc 38%+0.2 vs field
BODY
18.3% acc 71%−0.2 vs field
LEGS
14.7% acc 83%+0.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 70%CLINCH 11%GROUND 19%

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.

16 UFC fights · 306 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Ilir Latifi

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

2.11takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.11 landed per 15 minutes — −0.28 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS64
2.11 / 15m−0.28 vs field
ATTEMPTS73
6.03 / 15m+1.01 vs field
ACCURACY32
35%−16pp vs field
SUB ATT16
0.30 / 15m−1.35 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 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 Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 17-9. In the UFC: 9-7. Ilir Latifi’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.

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