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Matt Van Buren
7-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Matt Van Buren’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Volume boxer

Pro record7-6
Current streak2 losses
Last 2 (UFC)L L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age40
Height6' 5"

6' 5" volume boxer campaigning at Light Heavyweight. Top 2% of Light Heavyweights: lands 7.73 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameGutter
NationalityUnited States
HometownNorfolk, Virginia
Fighting out ofTeam Gutter
Height6' 5"
Reachpending
Stancepending
Age40
Date of birthJun 12, 1986
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record7-6
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Matt Van Buren’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 / min7.73
Striking accuracy45%
Strikes absorbed / min6.82
Striking defence49%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.00
Takedown accuracy0%
Takedown defence50%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light Heavyweight 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking73
Defence30
Grappling / TDn/a
Cardio limited sample88
Chin limited sample15
Fight IQ52

Strike zones

Strike zones

Matt Van Buren

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

HEAD53.9%ACC 34%BODY41.2%ACC 81%LEGS4.9%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Body puncher 41.2% of his landed strikes go to the body — +22.0 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
53.9% acc 34%−9.9 vs field
BODY
41.2% acc 81%+22.0 vs field
LEGS
4.9%−12.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 72%CLINCH 28%GROUND 0%

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.

Limited sample2 UFC fights · 102 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Matt Van Buren

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

0.00takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.00 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.27 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m−2.27 vs field
ATTEMPTS
Attempts per 15 needs both a landed rate and a completion rate; one of them is missing, so we do not divide.
n/a
ACCURACY
No takedown attempt on the record — UFCStats writes 0% here, which is not a completion rate.
n/a
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.59 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.96 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 Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 7-6. In the UFC: 0-2. Matt Van Buren’s last 2 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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