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Mike Pierce
17-7tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record17-7
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W W
DivisionWelterweight
Age46
Height5' 8"
StanceOrthodox

5' 8" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 9 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 5 decision. Top 13% of Welterweights: avoids 62% of the strikes thrown at him and averages 3.08 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
HometownPortland, Oregon
Fighting out ofSports Lab
Height5' 8"
Reach71.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age46
Date of birthSep 01, 1980
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record17-7
Finish split9 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 5 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Mike Pierce’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 / min2.62
Striking accuracy42%
Strikes absorbed / min2.36
Striking defence62%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.08
Takedown accuracy42%
Takedown defence71%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

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.
Striking47
Defence80
Grappling / TD48
Cardio79
Chin90
Fight IQ69

Strike zones

Strike zones

Mike Pierce

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

HEAD63.6%ACC 34%BODY18.8%ACC 74%LEGS17.6%ACC 86%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 64% head / 19% body / 18% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
63.6% acc 34%+1.3 vs field
BODY
18.8% acc 74%−2.3 vs field
LEGS
17.6% acc 86%+1.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 48%CLINCH 28%GROUND 24%

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.

14 UFC fights · 442 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Mike Pierce

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

3.08takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.08 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.09 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS81
3.08 / 15m+1.09 vs field
ATTEMPTS80
7.33 / 15m+2.39 vs field
ACCURACY53
42%−4pp vs field
SUB ATT10
0.20 / 15m−1.12 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: 17-7. In the UFC: 9-5. Mike Pierce’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 — 14 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2015-12-11LRyan LaFlareDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber Finale
2013-10-09LRousimar PalharesSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Maia vs Shields
2013-07-06WDavid MitchellKO/TKOR2UFC 162: Silva vs Weidman
2012-12-14WSeth BaczynskiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FX: Sotiropoulos vs Pearson
2012-10-05WAaron SimpsonKO/TKOR2UFC on FX: Browne vs Bigfoot
2012-06-08WCarlos Eduardo RochaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FX: Johnson vs McCall
2012-02-04LJosh KoscheckDecision (split)R3UFC 143: Diaz vs Condit
2011-11-12WPaul BradleyDecision (split)R3UFC on FOX: Velasquez vs Dos Santos
2011-08-06LJohny HendricksDecision (split)R3UFC 133: Evans vs Ortiz 2
2011-02-05WKenny RobertsonKO/TKOR2UFC 126: Silva vs Belfort
2010-08-28WAmilcar AlvesSubmissionR3UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2
2010-03-21WJulio PaulinoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Live: Vera vs Jones
2009-12-12LJon FitchDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 107: Penn vs Sanchez
2009-09-16WBrock LarsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Guillard

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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