Built from Michael Chiesa’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler
6' 1" southpaw submission grappler campaigning at Welterweight. 15 UFC wins — 9 submission, 6 decision. Top 12% of Welterweights: absorbs only 1.73 significant strikes a minute and averages 3.11 takedowns per 15 minutes.
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.
| Nickname | Maverick |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown | Spokane, Washington |
| Fighting out of | Sikjitsu |
| Height | 6' 1" |
| Reach | 75.0" |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Age | 38 |
| Date of birth | Dec 07, 1987 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 20-7 |
| Finish split | 15 UFC wins — 9 submission, 6 decision |
Career averages over Michael Chiesa’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.
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.
Every fight of Michael Chiesa’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.
FightIQ has called 1 of Michael Chiesa’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | We called it for | Confidence | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-28 | Niko Price | Michael Chiesa | 65.3% | Correct |
Across our full back-tested history we called 4 of Michael Chiesa’s fights, 4 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.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
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.
Pro record: 20-7. In the UFC: 15-7. Michael Chiesa’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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-28 | W | Niko Price | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Pyfer |
| 2025-06-14 | W | Court McGee | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Usman vs. Buckley |
| 2024-12-07 | W | Max Griffin | Submission | R3 | UFC 310: Pantoja vs. Asakura |
| 2024-08-03 | W | Tony Ferguson | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov |
| 2023-07-29 | L | Kevin Holland | Submission | R1 | UFC 291: Poirier vs. Gaethje 2 |
| 2021-11-20 | L | Sean Brady | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate |
| 2021-08-07 | L | Vicente Luque | Submission | R1 | UFC 265: Lewis vs. Gane |
| 2021-01-20 | W | Neil Magny | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Magny |
| 2020-01-25 | W | Rafael Dos Anjos | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Dos Santos |
| 2019-07-06 | W | Diego Sanchez | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos |
| 2018-12-29 | W | Carlos Condit | Submission | R2 | UFC 232: Jones vs. Gustafsson 2 |
| 2018-07-07 | L | Anthony Pettis | Submission | R2 | UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier |
| 2017-06-25 | L | Kevin Lee | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Lee |
| 2016-04-16 | W | Beneil Dariush | Submission | R2 | UFC on FOX: Teixeira vs Evans |
| 2015-12-10 | W | Jim Miller | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. VanZant |
| 2015-04-04 | W | Mitch Clarke | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Mendes vs Lamas |
| 2014-09-05 | L | Joe Lauzon | TKO (doctor) | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs Mousasi |
| 2014-05-24 | W | Francisco Trinaldo | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 173: Barao vs Dillashaw |
| 2013-11-06 | W | Colton Smith | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Fight for the Troops 3 |
| 2013-07-27 | L | Jorge Masvidal | Submission | R2 | UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Moraga |
| 2013-02-23 | W | Anton Kuivanen | Submission | R2 | UFC 157: Rousey vs Carmouche |
| 2012-06-01 | W | Al Iaquinta | Submission | R1 | The Ultimate Fighter: Live Finale |
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.
