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Matt Sayles
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FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record8-4
Current streak2 losses
Last 4 (UFC)L L W L
DivisionFeatherweight
Age32
Height5' 7"
StanceOrthodox

5' 7" orthodox technical striker campaigning at Featherweight. 1 UFC win — 1 submission. Top 16% of Featherweights: lands 4.83 significant strikes a minute and stuffs 81% of the takedowns tried on 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
HometownSan Diego, California
Fighting out ofAlliance MMA
Height5' 7"
Reach68.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age32
Date of birthFeb 21, 1994
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record8-4
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 submission

Career rates facts

Career averages over Matt Sayles’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 / min4.83
Striking accuracy41%
Strikes absorbed / min2.81
Striking defence61%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.36
Takedown accuracy16%
Takedown defence81%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.70

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.
Striking64
Defence72
Grappling / TD20
Cardio66
Chin78
Fight IQ60

Strike zones

Strike zones

Matt Sayles

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

HEAD52.7%ACC 28%BODY27.5%ACC 75%LEGS19.8%ACC 75%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 53% head / 28% body / 20% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
52.7% acc 28%−10.3 vs field
BODY
27.5% acc 75%+7.3 vs field
LEGS
19.8% acc 75%+3.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 77%CLINCH 8%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.

4 UFC fights · 167 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Matt Sayles

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

0.36takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.36 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.00 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS6
0.36 / 15m−2.00 vs field
ATTEMPTS17
2.25 / 15m−3.62 vs field
ACCURACY8
16%−27pp vs field
SUB ATT46
0.70 / 15m−0.57 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: 8-4. In the UFC: 1-3. Matt Sayles’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.

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