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Josh Sampo
11-5tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record11-5
Current streak3 losses
Last 4 (UFC)L L L W
DivisionFlyweight
Age42
Height5' 4"
StanceOrthodox

5' 4" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Flyweight. 1 UFC win — 1 submission. Top 10% of Flyweights: averages 2.1 submission attempts 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Gremlin
NationalityUnited States
HometownLindenwood, Missouri
Fighting out ofTeam Oyama
Height5' 4"
Reach64.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age42
Date of birthJul 24, 1984
Weight125 lbs.
Pro record11-5
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 submission

Career rates facts

Career averages over Josh Sampo’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 / min1.99
Striking accuracy36%
Strikes absorbed / min2.96
Striking defence55%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.06
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence40%
Sub attempts / 15 min2.10

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Flyweight 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 Flyweight.
Striking24
Defence59
Grappling / TD56
Cardio55
Chin52
Fight IQ49

Strike zones

Strike zones

Josh Sampo

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

HEAD54.1%ACC 28%BODY27.1%ACC 50%LEGS18.8%ACC 73%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 54% head / 27% body / 19% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
54.1% acc 28%−9.1 vs field
BODY
27.1% acc 50%+6.3 vs field
LEGS
18.8% acc 73%+2.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 75%CLINCH 12%GROUND 13%

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.

4 UFC fights · 85 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Josh Sampo

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

1.06takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 2.10 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +0.96 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS33
1.06 / 15m−1.08 vs field
ATTEMPTS30
3.21 / 15m−2.45 vs field
ACCURACY46
33%−9pp vs field
SUB ATT90
2.10 / 15m+0.96 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.00 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 Flyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 11-5. In the UFC: 1-3. Josh Sampo’s last 4 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 — 4 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2015-05-23LJustin ScogginsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier
2014-07-19LPaddy HolohanSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Brandao
2014-02-22LZach MakovskyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 170: Rousey vs McMann
2013-11-30WRyan BenoitSubmissionR2The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate Finale

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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