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Michael Morales
19-0tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Michael Morales’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

Pro record19-0
Current streak7 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W W W W
DivisionWelterweight
Age27
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox power striker campaigning at Welterweight. 7 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 2 decision. Top 6% of Welterweights: lands 5.68 significant strikes a minute and stuffs 89% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
NationalityEcuador
HometownMachala, El Oro
Fighting out ofEntram Gym
Height6' 0"
Reach79.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age27
Date of birthJun 24, 1999
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record19-0
Finish split7 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Michael Morales’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 / min5.68
Striking accuracy49%
Strikes absorbed / min3.26
Striking defence53%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.04
Takedown accuracy41%
Takedown defence89%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

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.
Striking84
Defence52
Grappling / TD42
Cardio76
Chin88
Fight IQ68

Our calls on Michael Morales’s fights

We have not called one of Michael Morales’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 5 of Michael Morales’s fights, 5 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

Michael Morales

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

HEAD80.4%ACC 46%BODY6.7%ACC 69%LEGS12.9%ACC 77%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 80.4% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +18.1 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
80.4% acc 46%+18.1 vs field
BODY
6.7% acc 69%−14.4 vs field
LEGS
12.9% acc 77%−3.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 77%CLINCH 6%GROUND 17%

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.

7 UFC fights · 356 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Michael Morales

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

1.04takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.04 landed per 15 minutes — −0.95 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS33
1.04 / 15m−0.95 vs field
ATTEMPTS29
2.54 / 15m−2.40 vs field
ACCURACY50
41%−5pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.32 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: 19-0. In the UFC: 7-0. Michael Morales’s last 7 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 — 7 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2025-11-15WSean BradyKO/TKOR1UFC 322: Della Maddalena vs. Makhachev
2025-05-17WGilbert BurnsKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales
2024-08-24WNeil MagnyKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Borralho
2023-11-18WJake MatthewsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Craig
2023-07-01WMax GriffinDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Magomedov
2022-07-30WAdam FugittKO/TKOR3UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2
2022-01-22WTrevin GilesKO/TKOR1UFC 270: Ngannou vs. Gane

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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