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Leon Edwards
22-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Leon Edwards’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

Pro record22-6
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W W
DivisionWelterweight
Age35
Height6' 2"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 2" southpaw decision fighter campaigning at Welterweight. 14 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 10 decision. Top 13% of Welterweights: connects with 54% of his significant strikes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameRocky
NationalityEngland
HometownErdington, West Midlands
Fighting out ofTeam Renegade
Height6' 2"
Reach74.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age35
Date of birthAug 25, 1991
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record22-6
Finish split14 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 10 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Leon Edwards’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 / min2.60
Striking accuracy54%
Strikes absorbed / min2.44
Striking defence52%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.25
Takedown accuracy37%
Takedown defence63%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

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.
Striking66
Defence62
Grappling / TD36
Cardio10
Chin86
Fight IQ52

Our calls on Leon Edwards’s fights

We have not called one of Leon Edwards’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 5 of Leon Edwards’s fights, 3 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

Leon Edwards

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

HEAD56.1%ACC 43%BODY23.6%ACC 77%LEGS20.3%ACC 91%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 56% head / 24% body / 20% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
56.1% acc 43%−6.2 vs field
BODY
23.6% acc 77%+2.5 vs field
LEGS
20.3% acc 91%+3.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 76%CLINCH 14%GROUND 10%

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.

20 UFC fights · 873 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Leon Edwards

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

1.25takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.25 landed per 15 minutes — −0.74 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS41
1.25 / 15m−0.74 vs field
ATTEMPTS40
3.38 / 15m−1.56 vs field
ACCURACY42
37%−9pp vs field
SUB ATT25
0.40 / 15m−0.92 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: 22-6. In the UFC: 14-5-1. Leon Edwards’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 — 20 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2025-11-15LCarlos PratesKO/TKOR2UFC 322: Della Maddalena vs. Makhachev
2025-03-22LSean BradySubmissionR4UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Brady
2024-07-27LBelal MuhammadDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2
2023-12-16WColby CovingtonDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington
2023-03-18WKamaru UsmanDecision (majority)R5UFC 286: Edwards vs. Usman 3
2022-08-20WKamaru UsmanKO/TKOR5UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards
2021-06-12WNate DiazDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2
2021-03-13DBelal MuhammadCould not continueR2UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Muhammad
2019-07-20WRafael Dos AnjosDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Edwards
2019-03-16WGunnar NelsonDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Till vs. Masvidal
2018-06-23WDonald CerroneDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Edwards
2018-03-17WPeter SobottaKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Volkov
2017-09-02WBryan BarberenaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Struve
2017-03-18WVicente LuqueDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson
2016-10-08WAlbert TumenovSubmissionR3UFC 204: Bisping vs. Henderson
2016-05-08WDominic WatersDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs Arlovski
2015-12-19LKamaru UsmanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2
2015-07-18WPawel PawlakDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs Leites
2015-04-11WSeth BaczynskiKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Gonzaga vs Cro Cop 2
2014-11-08LClaudio SilvaDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night 56: Shogun vs Saint Preux

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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