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Kevin Burns
12-7tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record12-7
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W W
DivisionWelterweight
Age46
Height5' 10"
StanceOrthodox

5' 10" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Fire
NationalityUnited States
HometownDes Moines, Iowa
Fighting out ofGrudge Training Center
Height5' 10"
Reach74.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age46
Date of birthMar 03, 1980
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record12-7
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission

Career rates facts

Career averages over Kevin Burns’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 / min2.74
Striking accuracy38%
Strikes absorbed / min4.30
Striking defence52%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.28
Takedown accuracy50%
Takedown defence47%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight 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 Welterweight.
Striking40
Defence39
Grappling / TD42
Cardio42
Chin16
Fight IQ36

Strike zones

Strike zones

Kevin Burns

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

HEAD50.4%ACC 26%BODY19.3%ACC 76%LEGS30.3%ACC 80%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 30.3% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +13.7 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
50.4% acc 26%−11.9 vs field
BODY
19.3% acc 76%−1.8 vs field
LEGS
30.3% acc 80%+13.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 74%CLINCH 17%GROUND 9%

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 · 145 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Kevin Burns

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

0.28takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.28 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.71 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS4
0.28 / 15m−1.71 vs field
ATTEMPTS3
0.56 / 15m−4.38 vs field
ACCURACY72
50%+4pp vs field
SUB ATT50
0.80 / 15m−0.52 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 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 Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 12-7. In the UFC: 2-3. Kevin Burns’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
2009-12-12LTJ GrantKO/TKOR1UFC 107: Penn vs Sanchez
2009-06-20LChris LytleDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale
2008-12-13LAnthony JohnsonKO/TKOR3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir Finale
2008-07-19WAnthony JohnsonKO/TKOR3UFC: Silva vs Irvin
2008-06-07WRoan CarneiroSubmissionR2UFC 85: Bedlam

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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