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Junior Assuncao
16-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record16-6
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L W L
DivisionFeatherweight
Age45
Height5' 9"
StanceOrthodox

5' 9" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Featherweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 submission, 1 decision. Top 4% of Featherweights: connects with 62% of his significant strikes and absorbs only 2.06 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
NationalityBrazil
HometownRecife, Pernambuco
Fighting out ofAscension MMA
Height5' 9"
Reach72.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age45
Date of birthJun 24, 1981
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record16-6
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 submission, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Junior Assuncao’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 / min3.31
Striking accuracy62%
Strikes absorbed / min2.06
Striking defence44%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.43
Takedown accuracy24%
Takedown defence66%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.70

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Featherweight 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 Featherweight.
Striking78
Defence51
Grappling / TD43
Cardio86
Chin62
Fight IQ64

Strike zones

Strike zones

Junior Assuncao

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

HEAD67.1%ACC 58%BODY20.3%ACC 81%LEGS12.6%ACC 69%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 67% head / 20% body / 13% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
67.1% acc 58%+4.1 vs field
BODY
20.3% acc 81%+0.1 vs field
LEGS
12.6% acc 69%−4.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 43%CLINCH 21%GROUND 36%

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 · 143 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Junior Assuncao

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

2.43takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.43 landed per 15 minutes — +0.07 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS65
2.43 / 15m+0.07 vs field
ATTEMPTS88
10.13 / 15m+4.26 vs field
ACCURACY17
24%−19pp vs field
SUB ATT46
0.70 / 15m−0.57 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.73 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 Featherweight

Recent form

Pro record: 16-6. In the UFC: 2-3. Junior Assuncao’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.

Full UFC career — 5 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2011-12-30LRoss PearsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 141: Lesnar vs Overeem
2011-09-24WEddie YaginDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 135: Jones vs Rampage
2007-09-19LNate DiazSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Thomas vs Florian
2007-04-21WDavid LeeSubmissionR2UFC 70: Nations Collide
2006-10-14LKurt PellegrinoSubmissionR1UFC 64: Unstoppable

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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