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Ross Pearson
20-16tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record20-16
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L L
DivisionLightweight
Age41
Height5' 8"
StanceOrthodox

5' 8" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Lightweight. 12 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 7 decision. Top 17% of Lightweights: avoids 62% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Real Deal
NationalityEngland
HometownSunderland, Tyne and Wear
Fighting out ofCentral Coast MMA
Height5' 8"
Reach69.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age41
Date of birthSep 26, 1984
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record20-16
Finish split12 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 7 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Ross Pearson’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 / min3.68
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min4.09
Striking defence62%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.74
Takedown accuracy35%
Takedown defence75%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

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.
Striking55
Defence60
Grappling / TD30
Cardio63
Chin35
Fight IQ49

Strike zones

Strike zones

Ross Pearson

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

HEAD52.8%ACC 29%BODY28.2%ACC 65%LEGS19.0%ACC 83%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 53% head / 28% body / 19% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
52.8% acc 29%−9.3 vs field
BODY
28.2% acc 65%+7.4 vs field
LEGS
19.0% acc 83%+1.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 82%CLINCH 15%GROUND 2%

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.

26 UFC fights · 1,114 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Ross Pearson

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

0.74takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.74 takedowns and 0.00 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS19
0.74 / 15m−1.39 vs field
ATTEMPTS19
2.11 / 15m−3.29 vs field
ACCURACY42
35%−9pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.30 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: 20-16. In the UFC: 12-13-1. Ross Pearson’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.

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