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James Irvin
17-10tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from James Irvin’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

Pro record17-10
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W W
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age47
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox power striker campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 4 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 other.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Sandman
NationalityUnited States
HometownCitrus Heights, California
Fighting out ofReign MMA
Height6' 2"
Reach75.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age47
Date of birthSep 12, 1978
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record17-10
Finish split4 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 other

Career rates facts

Career averages over James Irvin’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 / min2.03
Striking accuracy48%
Strikes absorbed / min3.86
Striking defence35%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.00
Takedown accuracy0%
Takedown defence36%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.50

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking48
Defence28
Grappling / TD34
Cardio Round-2 tape only limited sample71
Chin8
Fight IQ38

Strike zones

Strike zones

James Irvin

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

HEAD49.1%ACC 36%BODY13.6%FIELD 19%LEGS37.3%ACC 71%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 37.3% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +20.3 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
49.1% acc 36%−14.7 vs field
BODY
13.6%−5.6 vs field
LEGS
37.3% acc 71%+20.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 59%CLINCH 12%GROUND 29%

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.

10 UFC fights · 59 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

James Irvin

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

0.00takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.00 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.27 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m−2.27 vs field
ATTEMPTS
Attempts per 15 needs both a landed rate and a completion rate; one of them is missing, so we do not divide.
n/a
ACCURACY
No takedown attempt on the record — UFCStats writes 0% here, which is not a completion rate.
n/a
SUB ATT34
0.50 / 15m−1.09 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.96 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 Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 17-10. In the UFC: 4-6. James Irvin’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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