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Robert Valentin
13-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

Profile FightIQ Newsroom

Reported prose from our newsroom. All-rounder

Pro record13-6
Current streak2 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W L L L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age31
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

Robert Valentin is 1-3 in the UFC across four fights since his Aug. 24, 2024 debut.

That first bout was the Ultimate Fighter 32 middleweight tournament title fight, in which Ryan Loder stopped him in the second round. Valentin then dropped a split decision to Torrez Finney on April 5, 2025, and was stopped in the first round by Ateba Gautier on July 19, 2025.

His first UFC win came April 18, 2026, a first-round submission of Julien Leblanc.

All four of Valentin's UFC bouts have been at middleweight. Three of them ended before the judges were needed, and the Finney fight is the only time he has gone the full three rounds in the promotion.

Written 2026-08-01 · ahead of UFC Belgrade — Medic vs Rodriguez. News (#18) — checked against the fight record before publication. The figures above the story are recomputed every build from the official fight record.

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
NationalitySwitzerland
HometownZurich
Fighting out ofFight Move Academy
Height6' 2"
Reach77.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age31
Date of birthMar 31, 1995
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record13-6
Finish split2 UFC wins — 2 submission

Career rates facts

Career averages over Robert Valentin’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 / min1.30
Striking accuracy55%
Strikes absorbed / min2.72
Striking defence33%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.59
Takedown accuracy50%
Takedown defence55%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.80

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.
Striking50
Defence36
Grappling / TD54
Cardio limited sample54
Chin28
Fight IQ44

Our calls on Robert Valentin’s fights

Every fight of Robert Valentin’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 2 of Robert Valentin’s fights in 2026: 0 correct (0–2 — 0% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-08-01Dusko TodorovicDusko Todorovic (against Valentin)52.7%Missed
2026-04-18Julien LeblancJulien Leblanc (against Valentin)59.8%Missed
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Robert Valentin’s fights, 2 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

Robert Valentin

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

HEAD61.8%ACC 47%BODY20.6%FIELD 21%LEGS17.6%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 62% head / 21% body / 18% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
61.8% acc 47%−1.8 vs field
BODY
20.6%+0.0 vs field
LEGS
17.6%+1.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 47%CLINCH 35%GROUND 18%

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.

Limited sample5 UFC fights · 34 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Robert Valentin

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

0.59takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 1.80 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +0.24 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS15
0.59 / 15m−1.68 vs field
ATTEMPTS10
1.18 / 15m−4.14 vs field
ACCURACY69
50%+3pp vs field
SUB ATT77
1.80 / 15m+0.24 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: 13-6. In the UFC: 2-3. Robert Valentin’s last 5 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 — 5 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-08-01WDusko TodorovicSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Medic vs. Rodriguez
2026-04-18WJulien LeblancSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Malott
2025-07-19LAteba GautierKO/TKOR1UFC 318: Holloway vs. Poirier 3
2025-04-05LTorrez FinneyDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Murphy
2024-08-24LRyan LoderKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Borralho

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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