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Sam Watford

Pro 2-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Sam Watford’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record2-2
DivisionLightweight

A all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. Top 2% of Lightweights: absorb only 0.73 significant strikes a minute and avoid 62% of the strikes thrown at them.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
HometownMount Vernon, New York
Fighting out ofRenzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Heightpending
Reachpending
Stancepending
Agepending
Date of birthpending
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record2-2
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Sam Watford’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on their official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min0.13
Striking accuracy18%
Strikes absorbed / min0.73
Striking defence62%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.00
Takedown accuracy40%
Takedown defence60%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.00

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.
Striking0
Defence91
Grappling / TD60
Cardio Not on the UFC statistical record we readn/a
Chin Not on the UFC statistical record we readn/a
Fight IQ50

Strike zones

No zone data

UFCStats has no per-zone significant-strike breakdown on file for this fighter yet — usually because they have not fought in the UFC, or their bouts predate zone-level recording.

Takedowns

Takedowns

Sam Watford

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

2.00takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.00 landed per 15 minutes — −0.13 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS60
2.00 / 15m−0.13 vs field
ATTEMPTS57
5.00 / 15m−0.46 vs field
ACCURACY57
40%−3pp vs field
SUB ATT63
1.00 / 15m−0.32 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.09 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: 2-2. A fight-by-fight timeline appears here once Sam Watford has a UFC bout on the official record.

On the map

The camp on the record and the hometown on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Camp: Renzo Gracie Jiu-JitsuHometown: Mount Vernon, New York

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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