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John Salter
14-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record14-3
Current streak1 loss
Last 3 (UFC)L W L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age41
Height6' 1"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 1" southpaw grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight. 1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO. Top 3% of Middleweights: avoids 68% of the strikes thrown at him and absorbs only 1.68 significant strikes a minute.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
HometownNashville, Tennessee
Fighting out ofGym-O
Height6' 1"
Reach74.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age41
Date of birthMar 21, 1985
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record14-3
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO

Career rates facts

Career averages over John Salter’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 / min1.68
Striking accuracy32%
Strikes absorbed / min1.68
Striking defence68%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.85
Takedown accuracy46%
Takedown defence66%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.50

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.
Striking18
Defence92
Grappling / TD54
Cardio limited sample27
Chin limited sample48
Fight IQ48

Strike zones

Strike zones

John Salter

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

HEAD87.1%ACC 22%BODY9.7%FIELD 21%LEGS3.2%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 87.1% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +23.5 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
87.1% acc 22%+23.5 vs field
BODY
9.7%−10.9 vs field
LEGS
3.2%−12.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 81%CLINCH 16%GROUND 3%

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 sample3 UFC fights · 31 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

John Salter

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

2.85takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 2.85 takedowns per 15 minutes at 46% completion — −1pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS76
2.85 / 15m+0.58 vs field
ATTEMPTS70
6.20 / 15m+0.87 vs field
ACCURACY57
46%−1pp vs field
SUB ATT30
0.50 / 15m−1.06 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: 14-3. In the UFC: 1-2. John Salter’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.

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