Built from John Castaneda’s own numbers — style, standout rate and current form. Not reported prose.
5'6" switch high-volume striker with a 4-4 record, age 34. Standout metric: defends 76% of takedowns. Form: last 5: LWWLL · on a 2-fight slide · 357 days off · Elo 1504.
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.
| Nickname | Sexi Mexi |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown | Mankato, Minnesota |
| Fighting out of | The Academy |
| Height | 5' 6" |
| Reach | 71.0" |
| Stance | Switch |
| Age | 34 |
| Date of birth | Dec 18, 1991 |
| Weight | 135 lbs. |
| Pro record | 21-8-1 |
| Finish split | pending |
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against every fighter on record. Tap any i for what a score measures.
The moat — every call we've made on this fighter, timestamped and graded in public. Nobody else can copy this.
FightIQ has picked John Castaneda once, 0 correct (0-1 — 0% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | Card | We said | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-08 | Daniel Marcos | UFC Fight Night: Katona vs Butler | 51.7% | Missed |
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
Pro record: 21-8-1. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).
