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Joe Ellenberger
15-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Joe Ellenberger’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder

Pro record15-2
Current streak1 loss
Last 2 (UFC)L W
DivisionLightweight
Age41
Height5' 9"
StanceOrthodox

5' 9" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 1 UFC win — 1 decision. Top 18% of Lightweights: averages 3.17 takedowns per 15 minutes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameExcalibur
NationalityUnited States
HometownOmaha, Nebraska
Fighting out ofPremier Combat Center
Height5' 9"
Reach72.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age41
Date of birthMar 28, 1985
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record15-2
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Joe Ellenberger’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 / min1.62
Striking accuracy47%
Strikes absorbed / min3.45
Striking defence48%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.17
Takedown accuracy40%
Takedown defence0%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.10

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight 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 Lightweight.
Striking46
Defence41
Grappling / TD68
Cardio27
Chin limited sample12
Fight IQ39

Strike zones

Strike zones

Joe Ellenberger

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

HEAD65.2%ACC 38%BODY26.1%FIELD 21%LEGS8.7%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 65% head / 26% body / 9% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
65.2% acc 38%+3.1 vs field
BODY
26.1%+5.3 vs field
LEGS
8.7%−8.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 39%CLINCH 30%GROUND 30%

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 · 46 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Joe Ellenberger

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

3.17takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.17 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.04 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS82
3.17 / 15m+1.04 vs field
ATTEMPTS79
7.92 / 15m+2.52 vs field
ACCURACY57
40%−4pp vs field
SUB ATT66
1.10 / 15m−0.20 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.22 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 Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 15-2. In the UFC: 1-1. Joe Ellenberger’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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