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Robert Whittaker
28-9tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Robert Whittaker’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

Pro record28-9
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L L W W
DivisionMiddleweight
Age35
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox decision fighter campaigning at Middleweight. 18 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 11 decision. Top 15% of Middleweights: lands 4.39 significant strikes a minute and stuffs 82% of the takedowns tried on 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Reaper
NationalityAustralia
HometownSydney, New South Wales
Fighting out ofPMA Super Martial Arts
Height6' 0"
Reach73.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age35
Date of birthDec 20, 1990
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record28-9
Finish split18 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 11 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Robert Whittaker’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 / min4.39
Striking accuracy43%
Strikes absorbed / min3.36
Striking defence59%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.73
Takedown accuracy38%
Takedown defence82%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

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.
Striking64
Defence62
Grappling / TD30
Cardio58
Chin55
Fight IQ54

Our calls on Robert Whittaker’s fights

Every fight of Robert Whittaker’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 1 of Robert Whittaker’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% 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
2026-07-11Nikita KrylovRobert Whittaker53.6%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 5 of Robert Whittaker’s fights, 5 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 Whittaker

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

HEAD71.8%ACC 37%BODY10.3%ACC 61%LEGS17.9%ACC 85%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 71.8% upstairs — +8.2 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
71.8% acc 37%+8.2 vs field
BODY
10.3% acc 61%−10.3 vs field
LEGS
17.9% acc 85%+2.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 86%CLINCH 7%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.

25 UFC fights · 1,489 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Robert Whittaker

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

0.73takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.73 takedowns and 0.00 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS20
0.73 / 15m−1.54 vs field
ATTEMPTS20
1.92 / 15m−3.40 vs field
ACCURACY39
38%−9pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.56 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: 28-9. In the UFC: 18-7. Robert Whittaker’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 — 25 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-07-11WNikita KrylovKO/TKOR3UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2
2025-07-26LReinier de RidderDecision (split)R5UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. De Ridder
2024-10-26LKhamzat ChimaevSubmissionR1UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway
2024-06-22WIkram AliskerovKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov
2024-02-17WPaulo CostaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria
2023-07-08LDricus Du PlessisKO/TKOR2UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez
2022-09-03WMarvin VettoriDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa
2022-02-12LIsrael AdesanyaDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2
2021-04-17WKelvin GastelumDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Gastelum
2020-10-24WJared CannonierDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje
2020-07-25WDarren TillDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till
2019-10-05LIsrael AdesanyaKO/TKOR2UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya
2018-06-09WYoel RomeroDecision (split)R5UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2
2017-07-08WYoel RomeroDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 213: Romero vs. Whittaker
2017-04-15WJacare SouzaKO/TKOR2UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Reis
2016-11-26WDerek BrunsonKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Brunson
2016-04-23WRafael NatalDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 197: Jones vs Saint Preux
2015-11-14WUriah HallDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 193: Rousey vs Holm
2015-05-09WBrad TavaresKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Miocic vs Hunt
2014-11-07WClint HesterKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs Bisping
2014-06-28WMike RhodesDecision (unanimous)R3
2014-02-22LStephen ThompsonKO/TKOR1UFC 170: Rousey vs McMann
2013-08-28LCourt McGeeDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann 2
2013-05-25WColton SmithKO/TKOR3UFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2
2012-12-14WBrad ScottDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FX: Sotiropoulos vs Pearson

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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