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Nick Diaz
26-10tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record26-10
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L D L L W
DivisionMiddleweight
Age43
Height6' 1"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 1" southpaw power striker campaigning at Middleweight. 7 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 1 decision. Top 5% of Middleweights: lands 5.71 significant strikes a minute and avoids 59% of the strikes thrown at 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
NationalityUnited States
HometownStockton, California
Fighting out ofCesar Gracie Fight Team
Height6' 1"
Reach76.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age43
Date of birthAug 02, 1983
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record26-10
Finish split7 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Nick 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.

Striking
Strikes landed / min5.71
Striking accuracy42%
Strikes absorbed / min3.84
Striking defence59%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.28
Takedown accuracy32%
Takedown defence60%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking67
Defence57
Grappling / TD40
Cardio51
Chin88
Fight IQ61

Strike zones

Strike zones

Nick Diaz

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

HEAD69.4%ACC 35%BODY24.3%ACC 67%LEGS6.3%ACC 58%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 69.4% upstairs — +5.8 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
69.4% acc 35%+5.8 vs field
BODY
24.3% acc 67%+3.7 vs field
LEGS
6.3% acc 58%−9.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 75%CLINCH 18%GROUND 7%

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.

15 UFC fights · 872 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Nick Diaz

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

1.28takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.28 landed per 15 minutes — −0.99 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS36
1.28 / 15m−0.99 vs field
ATTEMPTS46
4.00 / 15m−1.32 vs field
ACCURACY27
32%−15pp vs field
SUB ATT58
1.00 / 15m−0.56 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 26-10. In the UFC: 7-7-1. Nick 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.

Full UFC career — 15 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2021-09-25LRobbie LawlerKO/TKOR3UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega
2015-01-31DAnderson SilvaOverturnedR5UFC 183: Silva vs Diaz
2013-03-16LGeorges St-PierreDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 158: St-Pierre vs Diaz
2012-02-04LCarlos ConditDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 143: Diaz vs Condit
2011-10-29WBJ PennDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 137: Penn vs Diaz
2006-11-18WGleison TibauKO/TKOR2UFC 65: Bad Intentions
2006-08-26WJosh NeerSubmissionR3UFC 62: Liddell vs Sobral
2006-04-15LSean SherkDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 59: Reality Check
2006-02-04LJoe RiggsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 57: Liddell vs Couture 3
2005-11-05LDiego SanchezDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Franklin Finale
2005-06-04WKoji OishiKO/TKOR1UFC 53: Heavy Hitters
2005-02-05WDrew FickettKO/TKOR1UFC 51: Super Saturday
2004-08-21LKaro ParisyanDecision (split)R3UFC 49: Unfinished Business
2004-04-02WRobbie LawlerKO/TKOR2UFC 47: It's On!
2003-09-26WJeremy JacksonSubmissionR3UFC 44: Undisputed

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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