This Saturday Hooker vs Parnasse · Accor Arena Paris France See this week's picks →
FightIQ · Record · Paul Felder
PF
Paul Felder
17-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Paul Felder’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher

Pro record17-6
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W L
DivisionLightweight
Age42
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Lightweight. 9 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 4 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Irish Dragon
NationalityUnited States
HometownPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
Fighting out ofRoufusport
Height5' 11"
Reach70.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age42
Date of birthApr 25, 1984
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record17-6
Finish split9 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 4 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Paul Felder’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 / min3.70
Striking accuracy44%
Strikes absorbed / min3.44
Striking defence48%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.29
Takedown accuracy28%
Takedown defence64%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight 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 Lightweight.
Striking64
Defence42
Grappling / TD13
Cardio32
Chin94
Fight IQ49

Strike zones

Strike zones

Paul Felder

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

HEAD58.9%ACC 35%BODY19.5%ACC 70%LEGS21.6%ACC 81%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 59% head / 20% body / 22% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
58.9% acc 35%−3.2 vs field
BODY
19.5% acc 70%−1.3 vs field
LEGS
21.6% acc 81%+4.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 73%CLINCH 14%GROUND 13%

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 · 763 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Paul Felder

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

0.29takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.29 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.84 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS3
0.29 / 15m−1.84 vs field
ATTEMPTS6
1.04 / 15m−4.37 vs field
ACCURACY24
28%−16pp vs field
SUB ATT11
0.20 / 15m−1.10 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.22 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 Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 17-6. In the UFC: 9-6. Paul Felder’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
2020-11-14LRafael Dos AnjosDecision (split)R5UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Dos Anjos
2020-02-22LDan HookerDecision (split)R5UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Hooker
2019-09-07WEdson BarbozaDecision (split)R3UFC 242: Khabib vs. Poirier
2019-02-17WJames VickDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Velasquez
2018-07-07LMike PerryDecision (split)R3UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier
2017-12-02WCharles OliveiraKO/TKOR2UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2
2017-07-16WStevie RayKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Ponzinibbio
2017-02-19WAlex RicciKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Browne
2016-09-24LFrancisco TrinaldoTKO (doctor)R3UFC Fight Night: Cyborg vs. Lansberg
2016-05-29WJoshua BurkmanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs Garbrandt
2016-01-17WDaron CruickshankSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs Cruz
2015-09-05LRoss PearsonDecision (split)R3UFC 191: Johnson vs Dodson 2
2015-07-25LEdson BarbozaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FOX: Dillashaw vs. Barao II
2015-01-03WDanny CastilloKO/TKOR2UFC 182: Jones vs Cormier
2014-10-04WJason SaggoDecision (split)R3

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.

← See the full public record