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James McSweeney
15-15tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record15-15
Current streak2 losses
Last 3 (UFC)L L W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age45
Height6' 4"
StanceSwitch

6' 4" switch all-rounder campaigning at Heavyweight. 1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO. Best of Heavyweights: stuffs 100% of the takedowns tried on 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Hammer
NationalityEngland
HometownLondon, Greater London
Fighting out ofMcSweeney Martial Arts
Height6' 4"
Reach77.0"
StanceSwitch
Age45
Date of birthOct 24, 1980
Weight230 lbs.
Pro record15-15
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO

Career rates facts

Career averages over James McSweeney’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 / min3.94
Striking accuracy55%
Strikes absorbed / min4.33
Striking defence42%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.52
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence100%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.10

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.
Striking78
Defence32
Grappling / TD35
Cardio70
Chin limited sample14
Fight IQ46

Strike zones

Strike zones

James McSweeney

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

HEAD54.9%ACC 44%BODY27.4%ACC 76%LEGS17.7%ACC 87%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 55% head / 27% body / 18% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
54.9% acc 44%−11.9 vs field
BODY
27.4% acc 76%+8.9 vs field
LEGS
17.7% acc 87%+3.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 54%CLINCH 19%GROUND 27%

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.

3 UFC fights · 113 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

James McSweeney

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

0.52takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.52 takedowns and 1.10 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS13
0.52 / 15m−1.87 vs field
ATTEMPTS20
1.58 / 15m−3.44 vs field
ACCURACY29
33%−18pp vs field
SUB ATT63
1.10 / 15m−0.55 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: 15-15. In the UFC: 1-2. James McSweeney’s last 3 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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