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Matt Lindland
22-9tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Matt Lindland’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder

Pro record22-9
Current streak2 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W L W L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age56
Height6' 0"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 0" southpaw grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight. 9 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 4 decision, 1 other. Top 10% of Middleweights: absorbs only 1.56 significant strikes a minute and averages 3.01 takedowns per 15 minutes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Law
NationalityUnited States
HometownEagle Creek, Oregon
Fighting out ofTeam Quest
Height6' 0"
Reach74.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age56
Date of birthMay 17, 1970
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record22-9
Finish split9 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 4 decision, 1 other

Career rates facts

Career averages over Matt Lindland’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 / min2.62
Striking accuracy50%
Strikes absorbed / min1.56
Striking defence52%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.01
Takedown accuracy48%
Takedown defence60%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.30

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.
Striking60
Defence74
Grappling / TD69
Cardio44
Chin44
Fight IQ58

Strike zones

Strike zones

Matt Lindland

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

HEAD66.0%ACC 44%BODY13.9%ACC 82%LEGS20.1%ACC 84%
FightIQ read Ground striker 50% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
66.0% acc 44%+2.4 vs field
BODY
13.9% acc 82%−6.7 vs field
LEGS
20.1% acc 84%+4.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 14%CLINCH 36%GROUND 50%

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.

12 UFC fights · 288 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Matt Lindland

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

3.01takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.01 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +0.74 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS80
3.01 / 15m+0.74 vs field
ATTEMPTS71
6.27 / 15m+0.95 vs field
ACCURACY58
48%+1pp vs field
SUB ATT69
1.30 / 15m−0.26 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: 22-9. In the UFC: 9-3. Matt Lindland’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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