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Steve Garcia
19-5tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Steve Garcia’s own numbers — style, standout rate and current form. Not reported prose.

6'0" southpaw high-volume striker with a 7-2 record, age 33. Standout metric: hits 57% of takedown attempts; defends 79% of takedowns. Form: last 5: WWWWW · on a 5-fight win streak · 112 days off · Elo 1558.

High-volume strikerElite defensive
Assembled from the striking, grappling and form figures on this page, as of 2025-11-01. 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.

NicknameMean Machine
NationalityUnited States
HometownRio Rancho, New Mexico
Fighting out ofJackson-Wink MMA
Height6' 0"
Reach75.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age34
Date of birthMay 22, 1992
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record19-5
Finish splitpending

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against every fighter on record. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats.
Striking81
Defence80
Grappling / TD34
Cardio44
Chin19
Fight IQ52

Our record on Steve Garcia

The moat — every call we've made on this fighter, timestamped and graded in public. Nobody else can copy this.

FightIQ has picked Steve Garcia 5×, 5 correct (5-0 — 100% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentCardWe saidResult
2025-11-01David OnamaUFC Fight Night: Ardelean vs Ruiz56.4%Correct
2025-07-12Calvin KattarUFC Fight Night: Matthews vs Njokuani66.9%Correct
2024-09-07Kyle NelsonUFC Fight Night: Garcia vs Nelson59.8%Correct
2024-07-20SeungWoo ChoiUFC Fight Night: Radzhabov vs Ogden58.1%Correct
2023-04-08Shayilan NuerdanbiekeUFC Fight Night: Meerschaert vs Pyfer50.3%Correct

Strike zones

Strike zones

Steve Garcia

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

HEAD75.0%ACC 39%BODY14.7%ACC 73%LEGS10.3%ACC 92%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 75.0% upstairs — +12.1 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
75.0% acc 39%+12.1 vs field
BODY
14.7% acc 73%−6.1 vs field
LEGS
10.3% acc 92%−6.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 69%CLINCH 4%GROUND 27%

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.

11 UFC fights · 339 landed

Recent form

Pro record: 19-5. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).

W · vs David OnamaUFC Fight Night: Ardelean vs Ruiz2025-11-01
W · vs Calvin KattarUFC Fight Night: Matthews vs Njokuani2025-07-12
W · vs Kyle NelsonUFC Fight Night: Garcia vs Nelson2024-09-07
W · vs SeungWoo ChoiUFC Fight Night: Radzhabov vs Ogden2024-07-20
W · vs Shayilan NuerdanbiekeUFC Fight Night: Meerschaert vs Pyfer2023-04-08
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