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Joaquin Buckley
21-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record21-8
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W W
DivisionWelterweight
Age32
Height5' 10"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 10" southpaw power striker campaigning at Welterweight. 11 UFC wins — 8 KO/TKO, 3 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameNew Mansa
NationalityUnited States
HometownSt. Louis, Missouri
Fighting out ofMurcielago MMA
Height5' 10"
Reach76.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age32
Date of birthApr 27, 1994
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record21-8
Finish split11 UFC wins — 8 KO/TKO, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Joaquin Buckley’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 / min3.62
Striking accuracy36%
Strikes absorbed / min3.10
Striking defence58%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.43
Takedown accuracy45%
Takedown defence70%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.10

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.
Striking48
Defence64
Grappling / TD36
Cardio78
Chin44
Fight IQ54

Our calls on Joaquin Buckley’s fights

Every fight of Joaquin Buckley’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 1 of Joaquin Buckley’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-05-09Sean BradySean Brady (against Buckley)61.2%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 7 of Joaquin Buckley’s fights, 4 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Joaquin Buckley

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

HEAD62.1%ACC 28%BODY27.9%ACC 63%LEGS10.0%ACC 82%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 62% head / 28% body / 10% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
62.1% acc 28%−0.2 vs field
BODY
27.9% acc 63%+6.8 vs field
LEGS
10.0% acc 82%−6.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 75%CLINCH 6%GROUND 19%

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.

17 UFC fights · 723 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Joaquin Buckley

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

1.43takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.43 landed per 15 minutes — −0.56 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS47
1.43 / 15m−0.56 vs field
ATTEMPTS38
3.18 / 15m−1.76 vs field
ACCURACY57
45%−1pp vs field
SUB ATT4
0.10 / 15m−1.22 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: 21-8. In the UFC: 11-6. Joaquin Buckley’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.

Full UFC career — 17 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-05-09LSean BradyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 328: Chimaev vs. Strickland
2025-06-14LKamaru UsmanDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Usman vs. Buckley
2024-12-14WColby CovingtonTKO (doctor)R3UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Buckley
2024-10-05WStephen ThompsonKO/TKOR3UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr.
2024-05-11WNursulton RuziboevDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Nascimento
2024-03-30WVicente LuqueKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot
2023-10-07WAlex MoronoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Dawson vs. Green
2023-05-20WAndre FialhoKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Hill
2022-12-10LChris CurtisKO/TKOR2UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev
2022-09-03LNassourdine ImavovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa
2022-06-18WAlbert DuraevTKO (doctor)R2UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Emmett
2022-02-19WAbdul Razak AlhassanDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Hill
2021-09-18WAntonio ArroyoKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann
2021-01-16LAlessio Di ChiricoKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Kattar
2020-11-21WJordan WrightKO/TKOR2UFC 255: Figueiredo vs. Perez
2020-10-10WImpa KasanganayKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. Sandhagen
2020-08-08LKevin HollandKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik

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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