Built from Nate Diaz’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler
6' 0" southpaw submission grappler campaigning at Welterweight. 16 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 10 submission, 4 decision. Top 14% of Welterweights: lands 4.57 significant strikes a minute.
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 | pending |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown | Stockton, California |
| Fighting out of | Cesar Gracie Fight Team |
| Height | 6' 0" |
| Reach | 76.0" |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Age | 41 |
| Date of birth | Apr 16, 1985 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 22-13 |
| Finish split | 16 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 10 submission, 4 decision |
Career averages over Nate Diaz’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.
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: 22-13. In the UFC: 16-11. Nate Diaz’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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-10 | W | Tony Ferguson | Submission | R4 | UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson |
| 2021-06-12 | L | Leon Edwards | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 |
| 2019-11-02 | L | Jorge Masvidal | TKO (doctor) | R3 | UFC 244: Masvidal vs. Diaz |
| 2019-08-17 | W | Anthony Pettis | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2 |
| 2016-08-20 | L | Conor McGregor | Decision (majority) | R5 | UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2 |
| 2016-03-05 | W | Conor McGregor | Submission | R2 | UFC 196: McGregor vs Diaz |
| 2015-12-19 | W | Michael Johnson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 |
| 2014-12-13 | L | Rafael Dos Anjos | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Dos Santos vs Miocic |
| 2013-11-30 | W | Gray Maynard | KO/TKO | R1 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate Finale |
| 2013-04-20 | L | Josh Thomson | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Melendez |
| 2012-12-08 | L | Benson Henderson | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Diaz |
| 2012-05-05 | W | Jim Miller | Submission | R2 | UFC on FOX: Diaz vs Miller |
| 2011-12-30 | W | Donald Cerrone | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 141: Lesnar vs Overeem |
| 2011-09-24 | W | Takanori Gomi | Submission | R1 | UFC 135: Jones vs Rampage |
| 2011-04-30 | L | Rory MacDonald | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 129: St-Pierre vs Shields |
| 2011-01-01 | L | Dong Hyun Kim | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 125: Resolution |
| 2010-08-28 | W | Marcus Davis | Submission | R3 | UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2 |
| 2010-03-27 | W | Rory Markham | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 111: St-Pierre vs Hardy |
| 2010-01-11 | L | Gray Maynard | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz |
| 2009-09-16 | W | Melvin Guillard | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Guillard |
| 2009-06-20 | L | Joe Stevenson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale |
| 2009-01-31 | L | Clay Guida | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 94: St-Pierre vs Penn 2 |
| 2008-09-17 | W | Josh Neer | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Neer |
| 2008-04-02 | W | Kurt Pellegrino | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Florian vs Lauzon |
| 2008-01-23 | W | Alvin Robinson | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Swick vs Burkman |
| 2007-09-19 | W | Junior Assuncao | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Thomas vs Florian |
| 2007-06-23 | W | Manvel Gamburyan | Submission | R2 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Pulver vs. Team Penn 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.