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Kai Kara-France
25-12tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Kai Kara-France’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

Pro record25-12
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L L W
DivisionFlyweight
Age33
Height5' 4"
StanceOrthodox

5' 4" orthodox decision fighter campaigning at Flyweight. 8 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 5 decision. Top 13% of Flyweights: avoids 64% of the strikes thrown at him and lands 4.46 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameDon't Blink
NationalityNew Zealand
HometownAuckland
Fighting out ofCity Kickboxing
Height5' 4"
Reach69.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age33
Date of birthMar 26, 1993
Weight125 lbs.
Pro record25-12
Finish split8 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 5 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Kai Kara-France’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 / min4.46
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min3.24
Striking defence64%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.56
Takedown accuracy30%
Takedown defence83%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

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.
Striking63
Defence71
Grappling / TD21
Cardio96
Chin36
Fight IQ57

Our calls on Kai Kara-France’s fights

We have not called one of Kai Kara-France’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Kai Kara-France’s fights, 2 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Kai Kara-France

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

HEAD63.9%ACC 32%BODY14.6%ACC 61%LEGS21.5%ACC 81%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 64% head / 15% body / 22% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
63.9% acc 32%+0.7 vs field
BODY
14.6% acc 61%−6.2 vs field
LEGS
21.5% acc 81%+5.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 86%CLINCH 2%GROUND 12%

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.

13 UFC fights · 712 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Kai Kara-France

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

0.56takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.56 takedowns and 0.00 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS7
0.56 / 15m−1.58 vs field
ATTEMPTS13
1.87 / 15m−3.80 vs field
ACCURACY35
30%−12pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.14 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: 25-12. In the UFC: 8-5. Kai Kara-France’s last 8 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 — 13 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2025-06-28LAlexandre PantojaSubmissionR3UFC 317: Topuria vs. Oliveira
2024-08-17WSteve ErcegKO/TKOR1UFC 305: Du Plessis vs. Adesanya
2023-06-03LAmir AlbaziDecision (split)R5UFC Fight Night: Kara-France vs. Albazi
2022-07-30LBrandon MorenoKO/TKOR3UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2
2022-03-26WAskar AskarovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus
2021-12-11WCody GarbrandtKO/TKOR1UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier
2021-03-06WRogerio BontorinKO/TKOR1UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya
2020-09-26LBrandon RoyvalSubmissionR2UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa
2020-02-22WTyson NamDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Hooker
2019-12-14LBrandon MorenoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington
2019-08-31WMark De La RosaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Zhang
2019-02-09WRaulian PaivaDecision (split)R3UFC 234: Adesanya vs. Silva
2018-12-01WElias GarciaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa

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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