Built from Jake Matthews’s own numbers — style, standout rate and current form. Not reported prose.
5'11" orthodox bjj specialist with a 15-7 record, age 31. Standout metric: finishes 40% of wins by submission; slips 61% of incoming strikes. Form: last 5: WLWWW · on a 3-fight win streak · 77 days off · Elo 1579.
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 | The Celtic Kid |
| Nationality | Australia |
| Hometown | Epping, Victoria |
| Fighting out of | Nexus |
| Height | 5' 11" |
| Reach | 73.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 32 |
| Date of birth | Aug 19, 1994 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 22-8 |
| 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 Jake Matthews 6×, 5 correct (5-1 — 83.3% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | Card | We said | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-30 | Carlston Harris | Song vs Figueiredo | 74.3% | Correct |
| 2025-09-27 | Neil Magny | UFC Fight Night: Montague vs Carolina | 67.7% | Missed |
| 2025-07-12 | Chidi Njokuani | UFC Fight Night: Matthews vs Njokuani | 55% | Correct |
| 2025-02-08 | Francisco Prado | UFC Fight Night: Nolan vs Borshchev | 62.4% | Correct |
| 2024-06-01 | Phil Rowe | UFC Fight Night: Holland vs Oleksiejczuk | 54.9% | Correct |
| 2023-07-29 | Darrius Flowers | UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs Holland | 60.7% | 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: 22-8. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).
