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Soa Palelei
22-5tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Soa Palelei’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

Pro record22-5
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L W W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age49
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox power striker campaigning at Heavyweight. 4 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO. Top 17% of Heavyweights: connects with 57% of his significant strikes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Hulk
NationalityAustralia
HometownPerth, Western Australia
Fighting out ofAKA Thailand
Height6' 4"
Reach81.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age49
Date of birthJul 12, 1977
Weight265 lbs.
Pro record22-5
Finish split4 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO

Career rates facts

Career averages over Soa Palelei’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 / min2.47
Striking accuracy57%
Strikes absorbed / min2.68
Striking defence48%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.20
Takedown accuracy47%
Takedown defence66%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Heavyweight 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 Heavyweight.
Striking66
Defence60
Grappling / TD60
Cardio5
Chin48
Fight IQ48

Strike zones

Strike zones

Soa Palelei

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

HEAD75.2%ACC 53%BODY14.9%ACC 67%LEGS9.9%FIELD 15%
FightIQ read Ground striker 47% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
75.2% acc 53%+8.4 vs field
BODY
14.9% acc 67%−3.6 vs field
LEGS
9.9%−4.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 31%CLINCH 22%GROUND 47%

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.

7 UFC fights · 121 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Soa Palelei

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

2.20takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 2.20 takedowns per 15 minutes at 47% completion — −4pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS65
2.20 / 15m−0.19 vs field
ATTEMPTS60
4.68 / 15m−0.34 vs field
ACCURACY54
47%−4pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.65 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 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 Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 22-5. In the UFC: 4-3. Soa Palelei’s last 7 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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