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TJ Waldburger
16-9tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from TJ Waldburger’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler

Pro record16-9
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L W
DivisionWelterweight
Age38
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Welterweight. 4 UFC wins — 3 submission, 1 decision. Top 4% of Welterweights: averages 4.8 submission attempts per 15 minutes and connects with 51% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
Nationalitypending
Hometownpending
Fighting out ofpending
Height5' 11"
Reach75.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age38
Date of birthApr 25, 1988
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record16-9
Finish split4 UFC wins — 3 submission, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over TJ Waldburger’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 / min2.02
Striking accuracy51%
Strikes absorbed / min2.39
Striking defence40%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.03
Takedown accuracy46%
Takedown defence40%
Sub attempts / 15 min4.80

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.
Striking54
Defence44
Grappling / TD78
Cardio49
Chin16
Fight IQ48

Strike zones

Strike zones

TJ Waldburger

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

HEAD63.3%ACC 42%BODY16.7%ACC 87%LEGS20.0%ACC 86%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 63% head / 17% body / 20% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
63.3% acc 42%+1.0 vs field
BODY
16.7% acc 87%−4.4 vs field
LEGS
20.0% acc 86%+3.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 49%CLINCH 17%GROUND 34%

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.

8 UFC fights · 120 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

TJ Waldburger

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

3.03takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.03 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.04 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS80
3.03 / 15m+1.04 vs field
ATTEMPTS74
6.59 / 15m+1.65 vs field
ACCURACY58
46%+0pp vs field
SUB ATT96
4.80 / 15m+3.48 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: 16-9. In the UFC: 4-4. TJ Waldburger’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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