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Joao Zeferino
21-9tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record21-9
Current streak2 losses
Last 2 (UFC)L L
DivisionWelterweight
Age40
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Brazilian Samurai
NationalityBrazil
HometownFlorianopolis, Santa Catarina
Fighting out ofpending
Height5' 11"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age40
Date of birthJan 15, 1986
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record21-9
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Joao Zeferino’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 / min0.83
Striking accuracy36%
Strikes absorbed / min2.60
Striking defence48%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.50
Takedown accuracy5%
Takedown defence50%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.00

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.
Striking16
Defence52
Grappling / TD24
Cardio5
Chin limited sample70
Fight IQ33

Strike zones

Strike zones

Joao Zeferino

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

HEAD72.0%ACC 33%BODY20.0%FIELD 21%LEGS8.0%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 72.0% upstairs — +9.7 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
72.0% acc 33%+9.7 vs field
BODY
20.0%−1.1 vs field
LEGS
8.0%−8.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 80%CLINCH 12%GROUND 8%

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.

Limited sample2 UFC fights · 25 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Joao Zeferino

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

0.50takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.50 takedowns and 1.00 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS10
0.50 / 15m−1.49 vs field
ATTEMPTS92
10.00 / 15m+5.06 vs field
ACCURACY0
5%−41pp vs field
SUB ATT61
1.00 / 15m−0.32 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: 21-9. In the UFC: 0-2. Joao Zeferino’s last 2 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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