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Matthew Riddle
8-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record8-3
Last 5 (UFC)D W D W L
DivisionWelterweight
Age40
Height6' 1"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 1" southpaw grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 7 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 5 decision, 1 other. Top 13% of Welterweights: stuffs 89% of the takedowns tried on him and averages 3.51 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameDeep Waters
Nationalitypending
Hometownpending
Fighting out ofpending
Height6' 1"
Reach76.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age40
Date of birthJan 14, 1986
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record8-3
Finish split7 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 5 decision, 1 other

Career rates facts

Career averages over Matthew Riddle’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 / min3.01
Striking accuracy42%
Strikes absorbed / min2.74
Striking defence54%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.51
Takedown accuracy50%
Takedown defence89%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.50

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight 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 Welterweight.
Striking51
Defence61
Grappling / TD64
Cardio84
Chin75
Fight IQ67

Strike zones

Strike zones

Matthew Riddle

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

HEAD49.5%ACC 29%BODY29.2%ACC 75%LEGS21.3%ACC 82%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 50% head / 29% body / 21% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
49.5% acc 29%−12.8 vs field
BODY
29.2% acc 75%+8.1 vs field
LEGS
21.3% acc 82%+4.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 34%CLINCH 30%GROUND 35%

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 · 503 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Matthew Riddle

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

3.51takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.51 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.52 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS87
3.51 / 15m+1.52 vs field
ATTEMPTS78
7.02 / 15m+2.08 vs field
ACCURACY72
50%+4pp vs field
SUB ATT33
0.50 / 15m−0.82 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 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 Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 8-3. In the UFC: 7-3-2. Matthew Riddle’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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