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Sean Sherk
36-4-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Sean Sherk’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Wrestle-grinder

Pro record36-4-1
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L W L W
DivisionLightweight
Age53
Height5' 6"
StanceOrthodox

5' 6" orthodox wrestle-grinder campaigning at Lightweight. 8 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 6 decision. Top 10% of Lightweights: averages 4.09 takedowns per 15 minutes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Muscle Shark
NationalityUnited States
HometownMinneapolis, Minnesota
Fighting out ofThe Academy MN
Height5' 6"
Reach67.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age53
Date of birthAug 05, 1973
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record36-4-1
Finish split8 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 6 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Sean Sherk’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 / min2.17
Striking accuracy35%
Strikes absorbed / min2.71
Striking defence55%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min4.09
Takedown accuracy46%
Takedown defence56%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

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.
Striking31
Defence64
Grappling / TD61
Cardio69
Chin52
Fight IQ55

Strike zones

Strike zones

Sean Sherk

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

HEAD74.9%ACC 29%BODY10.4%ACC 94%LEGS14.7%ACC 92%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 74.9% upstairs — +12.8 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
74.9% acc 29%+12.8 vs field
BODY
10.4% acc 94%−10.4 vs field
LEGS
14.7% acc 92%−2.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 53%CLINCH 16%GROUND 31%

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.

12 UFC fights · 415 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Sean Sherk

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

4.09takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 4.09 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.96 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS90
4.09 / 15m+1.96 vs field
ATTEMPTS85
8.89 / 15m+3.49 vs field
ACCURACY66
46%+2pp vs field
SUB ATT27
0.40 / 15m−0.90 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: 36-4-1. In the UFC: 8-4. Sean Sherk’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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