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Luis Saldana
16-7-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Luis Saldana’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Technical striker

Pro record16-7-1
Last 4 (UFC)D W L W
DivisionFeatherweight
Age35
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox technical striker campaigning at Featherweight. 2 UFC wins — 2 decision. Top 12% of Featherweights: lands 5.16 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
NationalityUnited States
HometownDes Moines, Iowa
Fighting out ofFight Ready
Height5' 11"
Reach73.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age35
Date of birthJan 27, 1991
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record16-7-1
Finish split2 UFC wins — 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Luis Saldana’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 / min5.16
Striking accuracy50%
Strikes absorbed / min3.65
Striking defence60%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.64
Takedown accuracy17%
Takedown defence44%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

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.
Striking82
Defence59
Grappling / TD11
Cardio49
Chin68
Fight IQ54

Strike zones

Strike zones

Luis Saldana

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

HEAD48.6%ACC 35%BODY21.5%ACC 71%LEGS29.9%ACC 78%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 29.9% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +13.1 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
48.6% acc 35%−14.4 vs field
BODY
21.5% acc 71%+1.3 vs field
LEGS
29.9% acc 78%+13.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 93%CLINCH 5%GROUND 2%

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.

4 UFC fights · 288 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Luis Saldana

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

0.64takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.64 takedowns and 0.20 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS16
0.64 / 15m−1.72 vs field
ATTEMPTS35
3.76 / 15m−2.11 vs field
ACCURACY9
17%−26pp vs field
SUB ATT9
0.20 / 15m−1.07 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: 16-7-1. In the UFC: 2-1-1. Luis Saldana’s last 4 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 — 4 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2022-08-20DSean WoodsonDecision (split)R3UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards
2022-03-26WBruno SouzaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus
2021-08-21LAustin LingoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Gastelum
2021-04-10WJordan GriffinDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Holland

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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