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Steve Kennedy
24-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Steve Kennedy’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder

Pro record24-8
Current streak2 losses
Last 2 (UFC)L L
DivisionWelterweight
Age43
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Steamrolla
NationalityAustralia
HometownPerth, Western Australia
Fighting out ofKickass MMA
Height5' 11"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age43
Date of birthMar 07, 1983
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record24-8
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Steve Kennedy’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 / min2.28
Striking accuracy35%
Strikes absorbed / min5.52
Striking defence45%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.51
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence0%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight 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 Welterweight.
Striking28
Defence20
Grappling / TD54
Cardio limited sample43
Chin limited sample67
Fight IQ42

Strike zones

Strike zones

Steve Kennedy

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

HEAD78.1%ACC 32%BODY7.3%FIELD 21%LEGS14.6%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 78.1% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +15.8 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
78.1% acc 32%+15.8 vs field
BODY
7.3%−13.8 vs field
LEGS
14.6%−2.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 88%CLINCH 0%GROUND 12%

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.

Limited sample2 UFC fights · 41 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Steve Kennedy

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

2.51takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.51 landed per 15 minutes — +0.52 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS74
2.51 / 15m+0.52 vs field
ATTEMPTS82
7.61 / 15m+2.67 vs field
ACCURACY34
33%−13pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.32 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 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 Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 24-8. In the UFC: 0-2. Steve Kennedy’s last 2 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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