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Louis Smolka
17-9tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Louis Smolka’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher

Pro record17-9
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L W
DivisionBantamweight
Age35
Height5' 9"
StanceOrthodox

5' 9" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Bantamweight. 8 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 2 decision. Top 10% of Bantamweights: averages 1.8 submission attempts per 15 minutes and lands 4.67 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameDa Last Samurai
NationalityUnited States
HometownWaipahu, Hawaii
Fighting out ofTeam Oyama
Height5' 9"
Reach68.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age35
Date of birthJul 16, 1991
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record17-9
Finish split8 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Louis Smolka’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 / min4.67
Striking accuracy47%
Strikes absorbed / min4.11
Striking defence53%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.69
Takedown accuracy35%
Takedown defence32%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.80

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Bantamweight 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 Bantamweight.
Striking78
Defence42
Grappling / TD64
Cardio76
Chin29
Fight IQ58

Strike zones

Strike zones

Louis Smolka

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

HEAD66.5%ACC 40%BODY26.0%ACC 68%LEGS7.5%ACC 90%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 66% head / 26% body / 8% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
66.5% acc 40%+4.9 vs field
BODY
26.0% acc 68%+4.1 vs field
LEGS
7.5% acc 90%−9.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 61%CLINCH 11%GROUND 28%

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.

17 UFC fights · 747 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Louis Smolka

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

1.69takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 1.80 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +0.73 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS53
1.69 / 15m−0.39 vs field
ATTEMPTS52
4.83 / 15m−0.71 vs field
ACCURACY48
35%−6pp vs field
SUB ATT90
1.80 / 15m+0.73 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.45 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 Bantamweight

Recent form

Pro record: 17-9. In the UFC: 8-9. Louis Smolka’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 — 17 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2022-05-14LDavey GrantKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Rakic
2021-12-04LVince MoralesKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Aldo
2020-12-05WJose QuinonezKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Vettori
2020-05-30LCasey KenneySubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Woodley vs. Burns
2019-09-14WRyan MacDonaldKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Gaethje
2019-03-09LMatt SchnellSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Dos Santos
2018-11-24WSumudaerjiSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Ngannou 2
2017-12-30LMatheus NicolauDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 219: Cyborg vs. Holm
2017-04-15LTim ElliottDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Reis
2016-12-30LRay BorgDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey
2016-10-01LBrandon MorenoSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson
2016-07-13WBen NguyenKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: McDonald vs. Lineker
2015-10-24WPaddy HolohanSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Holohan vs Smolka
2015-07-11WNeil SeeryDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 189: Mendes vs McGregor
2014-11-07WRichie VaculikKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs Bisping
2014-05-10LChris CariasoDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Brown vs Silva
2014-01-15WAlptekin OzkilicDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs Philippou

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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