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Jake Matthews
23-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record23-8
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L W W W
DivisionWelterweight
Age32
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 16 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 6 submission, 8 decision. Top 18% of Welterweights: avoids 60% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Celtic Kid
NationalityAustralia
HometownEpping, Victoria
Fighting out ofNexus
Height5' 11"
Reach73.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age32
Date of birthAug 19, 1994
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record23-8
Finish split16 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 6 submission, 8 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Jake Matthews’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 / min3.34
Striking accuracy43%
Strikes absorbed / min2.62
Striking defence60%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.44
Takedown accuracy41%
Takedown defence64%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

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.
Striking57
Defence74
Grappling / TD49
Cardio64
Chin76
Fight IQ64

Our calls on Jake Matthews’s fights

Every fight of Jake Matthews’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 Jake Matthews’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% 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
2026-05-30Carlston HarrisJake Matthews74.3%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 6 of Jake Matthews’s fights, 5 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

Jake Matthews

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

HEAD71.9%ACC 39%BODY17.4%ACC 67%LEGS10.7%ACC 81%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 71.9% upstairs — +9.6 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
71.9% acc 39%+9.6 vs field
BODY
17.4% acc 67%−3.7 vs field
LEGS
10.7% acc 81%−5.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 72%CLINCH 7%GROUND 21%

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.

24 UFC fights · 925 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Jake Matthews

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

1.44takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.44 landed per 15 minutes — −0.55 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS47
1.44 / 15m−0.55 vs field
ATTEMPTS42
3.51 / 15m−1.43 vs field
ACCURACY50
41%−5pp vs field
SUB ATT50
0.80 / 15m−0.52 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: 23-8. In the UFC: 16-8. Jake Matthews’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 — 24 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-05-30WCarlston HarrisDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Figueiredo
2025-09-27LNeil MagnySubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Ulberg vs. Reyes
2025-07-12WChidi NjokuaniSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Teixeira
2025-02-08WFrancisco PradoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 312: Du Plessis vs. Strickland 2
2024-06-01WPhil RoweDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier
2023-11-18LMichael MoralesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Craig
2023-07-29WDarrius FlowersSubmissionR2UFC 291: Poirier vs. Gaethje 2
2022-12-17LMatthew SemelsbergerDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Strickland
2022-06-11WAndre FialhoKO/TKOR2UFC 275: Teixeira vs. Prochazka
2021-03-06LSean BradySubmissionR3UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya
2020-09-26WDiego SanchezDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa
2020-02-22WEmil MeekDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Hooker
2019-10-05WRostem AkmanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya
2018-12-01LAnthony Rocco MartinSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa
2018-06-23WShinsho AnzaiSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Edwards
2018-02-10WLi JingliangDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold
2017-11-18WBojan VelickovicDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura
2016-11-26LAndrew HolbrookDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Brunson
2016-07-08LKevin LeeKO/TKOR1The Ultimate Fighter: Team Joanna vs. Team Cláudia Finale
2016-03-19WJohnny CaseSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs Mir
2015-11-14WAkbarh ArreolaTKO (doctor)R2UFC 193: Rousey vs Holm
2015-05-09LJames VickSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Miocic vs Hunt
2014-11-07WVagner RochaSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs Bisping
2014-06-28WDashon JohnsonSubmissionR3

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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