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Jesse Forbes
15-5tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record15-5
Current streak3 losses
Last 3 (UFC)L L L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age41
Height6' 2"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 2" southpaw all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight. Top 13% of Middleweights: completes 75% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameKid Hercules
NationalityUnited States
HometownTempe, Arizona
Fighting out ofPower MMA Team
Height6' 2"
Reach75.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age41
Date of birthOct 24, 1984
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record15-5
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Jesse Forbes’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 / min2.11
Striking accuracy24%
Strikes absorbed / min4.06
Striking defence53%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.79
Takedown accuracy75%
Takedown defence66%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking22
Defence44
Grappling / TD68
Cardio limited sample55
Chin limited sample48
Fight IQ47

Strike zones

Strike zones

Jesse Forbes

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

HEAD56.9%ACC 15%BODY38.6%ACC 71%LEGS4.5%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Body puncher 38.6% of his landed strikes go to the body — +18.0 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
56.9% acc 15%−6.7 vs field
BODY
38.6% acc 71%+18.0 vs field
LEGS
4.5%−11.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 54%CLINCH 43%GROUND 2%

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 · 44 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Jesse Forbes

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

1.79takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 1.79 takedowns per 15 minutes at 75% completion — +28pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS52
1.79 / 15m−0.48 vs field
ATTEMPTS28
2.39 / 15m−2.93 vs field
ACCURACY87
75%+28pp vs field
SUB ATT65
1.20 / 15m−0.36 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 15-5. In the UFC: 0-3. Jesse Forbes’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.

Full UFC career — 3 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2010-05-29LRyan JensenSubmissionR1UFC 114: Rampage vs Evans
2010-01-11LNick CatoneDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz
2006-06-24LMatt HamillKO/TKOR1The Ultimate Fighter: Team Ortiz vs. Team Shamrock Finale

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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