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Lyoto Machida
24-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record24-8
Current streak2 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W L L L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age48
Height6' 1"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 1" southpaw knockout puncher campaigning at Middleweight. 16 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 8 decision. Top 11% of Middleweights: absorbs only 1.57 significant strikes a minute and avoids 61% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Dragon
NationalityBrazil
HometownBelem, Para
Fighting out ofpending
Height6' 1"
Reach74.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age48
Date of birthMay 30, 1978
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record24-8
Finish split16 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 8 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Lyoto Machida’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 / min2.59
Striking accuracy53%
Strikes absorbed / min1.57
Striking defence61%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.21
Takedown accuracy65%
Takedown defence75%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking64
Defence88
Grappling / TD46
Cardio24
Chin69
Fight IQ58

Strike zones

Strike zones

Lyoto Machida

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

HEAD50.3%ACC 41%BODY27.4%ACC 70%LEGS22.3%ACC 74%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 22.3% to the legs — +6.4 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
50.3% acc 41%−13.3 vs field
BODY
27.4% acc 70%+6.8 vs field
LEGS
22.3% acc 74%+6.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 71%CLINCH 12%GROUND 16%

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.

24 UFC fights · 716 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Lyoto Machida

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

1.21takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.21 landed per 15 minutes — −1.06 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS34
1.21 / 15m−1.06 vs field
ATTEMPTS19
1.86 / 15m−3.46 vs field
ACCURACY82
65%+18pp vs field
SUB ATT23
0.40 / 15m−1.16 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 24-8. In the UFC: 16-8. Lyoto Machida’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.

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