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James Head
9-4tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record9-4
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W L
DivisionWelterweight
Age42
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 submission, 1 decision. Best of Welterweights: completes 100% of his takedown attempts.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
HometownOklahoma City, Oklahoma
Fighting out ofR-1 MMA
Height6' 1"
Reach73.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age42
Date of birthFeb 09, 1984
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record9-4
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 submission, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over James Head’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 / min2.75
Striking accuracy48%
Strikes absorbed / min3.11
Striking defence49%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.41
Takedown accuracy100%
Takedown defence66%
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.
Striking60
Defence45
Grappling / TD53
Cardio12
Chin38
Fight IQ42

Strike zones

Strike zones

James Head

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

HEAD65.3%ACC 40%BODY31.7%ACC 84%LEGS3.0%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Body puncher 31.7% of his landed strikes go to the body — +10.6 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
65.3% acc 40%+3.0 vs field
BODY
31.7% acc 84%+10.6 vs field
LEGS
3.0%−13.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 53%CLINCH 43%GROUND 4%

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 · 101 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

James Head

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

0.41takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.41 takedowns and 0.80 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS8
0.41 / 15m−1.58 vs field
ATTEMPTS2
0.41 / 15m−4.53 vs field
ACCURACY100
100%+54pp 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: 9-4. In the UFC: 2-3. James Head’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
2013-08-28LJason HighSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann 2
2012-12-15LMike PyleKO/TKOR1The Ultimate Fighter: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson Finale
2012-07-21WBrian EbersoleDecision (split)R3UFC 149: Faber vs Barao
2012-04-14WPapy AbediSubmissionR1UFC on FUEL TV: Gustafsson vs Silva
2011-06-11LNick RingSubmissionR3UFC 131: Dos Santos vs Carwin

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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