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Sean Strickland
31-7tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Sean Strickland’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Volume boxer

Pro record31-7
Current streak2 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W L W L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age35
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox volume boxer campaigning at Middleweight. 18 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 12 decision. Top 4% of Middleweights: lands 5.98 significant strikes a minute and avoids 60% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
HometownAnaheim, California
Fighting out ofXtreme Couture
Height6' 1"
Reach76.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age35
Date of birthFeb 27, 1991
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record31-7
Finish split18 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 12 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Sean Strickland’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 / min5.98
Striking accuracy42%
Strikes absorbed / min4.53
Striking defence60%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.66
Takedown accuracy62%
Takedown defence68%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.10

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.
Striking68
Defence53
Grappling / TD35
Cardio88
Chin80
Fight IQ65

Our calls on Sean Strickland’s fights

Every fight of Sean Strickland’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 Sean Strickland’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
2026-05-09Khamzat ChimaevKhamzat Chimaev (against Strickland)84.2%Missed
2026-02-21Anthony HernandezAnthony Hernandez (against Strickland)76%Missed
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 6 of Sean Strickland’s fights, 4 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

Sean Strickland

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

HEAD80.8%ACC 39%BODY14.1%ACC 66%LEGS5.1%ACC 78%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 80.8% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +17.2 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
80.8% acc 39%+17.2 vs field
BODY
14.1% acc 66%−6.5 vs field
LEGS
5.1% acc 78%−10.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 92%CLINCH 3%GROUND 5%

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 · 2,430 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Sean Strickland

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

0.66takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.66 takedowns and 0.10 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS18
0.66 / 15m−1.61 vs field
ATTEMPTS9
1.06 / 15m−4.26 vs field
ACCURACY81
62%+15pp vs field
SUB ATT5
0.10 / 15m−1.46 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: 31-7. In the UFC: 18-7. Sean Strickland’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
2026-05-09WKhamzat ChimaevDecision (split)R5UFC 328: Chimaev vs. Strickland
2026-02-21WAnthony HernandezKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Hernandez
2025-02-08LDricus Du PlessisDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 312: Du Plessis vs. Strickland 2
2024-06-01WPaulo CostaDecision (split)R5UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier
2024-01-20LDricus Du PlessisDecision (split)R5UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis
2023-09-09WIsrael AdesanyaDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland
2023-07-01WAbus MagomedovKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Magomedov
2023-01-14WNassourdine ImavovDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Imavov
2022-12-17LJared CannonierDecision (split)R5UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Strickland
2022-07-02LAlex PereiraKO/TKOR1UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier
2022-02-05WJack HermanssonDecision (split)R5UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Strickland
2021-07-31WUriah HallDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Hall vs. Strickland
2021-05-01WKrzysztof JotkoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Prochazka
2020-11-14WBrendan AllenKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Dos Anjos
2020-10-31WJack MarshmanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Hall vs. Silva
2018-10-27WNordine TalebKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Oezdemir vs. Smith
2018-05-12LElizeu Zaleski dos SantosKO/TKOR1UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington
2017-11-11WCourt McGeeDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis
2017-04-08LKamaru UsmanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2
2016-06-04WTom BreeseDecision (split)R3UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping 2
2016-02-21WAlex GarciaKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs Cowboy
2015-07-15WIgor AraujoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Mir vs Duffee
2015-02-22LSantiago PonzinibbioDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Mir
2014-05-31WLuke BarnattDecision (split)R3
2014-03-15WRobert McDanielSubmissionR1UFC 171: Hendricks vs Lawler

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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