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Josh Samman
13-4tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record13-4
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W W
DivisionMiddleweight
Age38
Height6' 3"
StanceOrthodox

6' 3" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight. 3 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 1 submission.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameAnqa
NationalityUnited States
HometownTallahassee, Florida
Fighting out ofMMA Masters
Height6' 3"
Reach79.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age38
Date of birthMar 14, 1988
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record13-4
Finish split3 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 1 submission

Career rates facts

Career averages over Josh Samman’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 / min2.08
Striking accuracy52%
Strikes absorbed / min2.47
Striking defence34%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.09
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence33%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

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.
Striking57
Defence41
Grappling / TD29
Cardio limited sample37
Chin60
Fight IQ45

Strike zones

Strike zones

Josh Samman

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

HEAD39.5%ACC 37%BODY40.7%ACC 65%LEGS19.8%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Body puncher 40.7% of his landed strikes go to the body — +20.1 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
39.5% acc 37%−24.1 vs field
BODY
40.7% acc 65%+20.1 vs field
LEGS
19.8%+3.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 42%CLINCH 42%GROUND 16%

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.

5 UFC fights · 86 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Josh Samman

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

1.09takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.09 landed per 15 minutes — −1.18 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS32
1.09 / 15m−1.18 vs field
ATTEMPTS39
3.30 / 15m−2.02 vs field
ACCURACY32
33%−14pp vs field
SUB ATT23
0.40 / 15m−1.16 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: 13-4. In the UFC: 3-2. Josh Samman’s last 5 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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