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Matthew Semelsberger
11-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Matthew Semelsberger’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

Pro record11-8
Current streak4 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L W
DivisionWelterweight
Age33
Height6' 1"
StanceSwitch

6' 1" switch decision fighter campaigning at Welterweight. 5 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 3 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameSemi The Jedi
NationalityUnited States
HometownFrederick, Maryland
Fighting out ofpending
Height6' 1"
Reach75.0"
StanceSwitch
Age33
Date of birthNov 23, 1992
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record11-8
Finish split5 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Matthew Semelsberger’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 / min3.77
Striking accuracy42%
Strikes absorbed / min4.24
Striking defence54%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.01
Takedown accuracy57%
Takedown defence45%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

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.
Striking60
Defence43
Grappling / TD45
Cardio55
Chin57
Fight IQ52

Our calls on Matthew Semelsberger’s fights

We have not called one of Matthew Semelsberger’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 4 of Matthew Semelsberger’s fights, 2 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Matthew Semelsberger

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

HEAD64.6%ACC 35%BODY16.9%ACC 59%LEGS18.5%ACC 83%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 65% head / 17% body / 18% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
64.6% acc 35%+2.3 vs field
BODY
16.9% acc 59%−4.2 vs field
LEGS
18.5% acc 83%+1.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 80%CLINCH 8%GROUND 12%

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.

11 UFC fights · 449 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Matthew Semelsberger

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

1.01takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.01 landed per 15 minutes — −0.98 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS32
1.01 / 15m−0.98 vs field
ATTEMPTS17
1.77 / 15m−3.17 vs field
ACCURACY78
57%+11pp vs field
SUB ATT25
0.40 / 15m−0.92 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: 11-8. In the UFC: 5-6. Matthew Semelsberger’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.

Full UFC career — 11 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2024-11-09LCharles RadtkeKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Prates
2024-01-13LPreston ParsonsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2
2023-07-29LUros MedicKO/TKOR3UFC 291: Poirier vs. Gaethje 2
2023-04-22LJeremiah WellsDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Pavlovich vs. Blaydes
2022-12-17WJake MatthewsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Strickland
2022-07-30LAlex MoronoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2
2022-03-12WAJ FletcherDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Ankalaev
2021-09-25WMartin SanoKO/TKOR1UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega
2021-06-19LKhaos WilliamsDecision (unanimous)R3
2021-03-13WJason WittKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Muhammad
2020-08-22WCarlton MinusDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Munhoz vs. Edgar

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

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