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Vicente Luque brings a 17-8 UFC record and 25 promotional fights to UFC 330. He debuted July 12, 2015, and has spent most of that run at welterweight.
Joaquin Buckley stopped him by TKO in the second round March 30, 2024. Luque answered Dec. 7, 2024, submitting Themba Gorimbo in the first.
He then dropped two straight. Kevin Holland submitted him in the second round June 7, 2025, and Joel Alvarez won a unanimous decision Oct. 11, 2025.
Luque's most recent outing came at middleweight. He submitted Kelvin Gastelum in the first round April 11, 2026, his second first-round submission win in the span of five fights.
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.
| Nickname | The Silent Assassin |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown | Westwood, New Jersey |
| Fighting out of | Kill Cliff FC |
| Height | 5' 11" |
| Reach | 75.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 34 |
| Date of birth | Nov 27, 1991 |
| Weight | 185 lbs. |
| Pro record | 24-13-1 |
| Finish split | 17 UFC wins — 8 KO/TKO, 7 submission, 2 decision |
Career averages over Vicente Luque’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.
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.
Every fight of Vicente Luque’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 Vicente Luque’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.
| Date | Opponent | We called it for | Confidence | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-15 | Tresean Gore | Vicente Luque | 66.4% | Missed |
| 2026-04-11 | Kelvin Gastelum | Kelvin Gastelum (against Luque) | 62.3% | Missed |
Across our full back-tested history we called 5 of Vicente Luque’s fights, 3 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.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
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.
Pro record: 24-13-1. In the UFC: 17-9. Vicente Luque’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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-15 | L | Tresean Gore | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 330: Makhachev vs. Machado Garry |
| 2026-04-11 | W | Kelvin Gastelum | Submission | R1 | UFC 327: Prochazka vs. Ulberg |
| 2025-10-11 | L | Joel Alvarez | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Oliveira vs. Gamrot |
| 2025-06-07 | L | Kevin Holland | Submission | R2 | UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2 |
| 2024-12-07 | W | Themba Gorimbo | Submission | R1 | UFC 310: Pantoja vs. Asakura |
| 2024-03-30 | L | Joaquin Buckley | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot |
| 2023-08-12 | W | Rafael Dos Anjos | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Dos Anjos |
| 2022-08-06 | L | Geoff Neal | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Hill |
| 2022-04-16 | L | Belal Muhammad | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Muhammad |
| 2021-08-07 | W | Michael Chiesa | Submission | R1 | UFC 265: Lewis vs. Gane |
| 2021-03-27 | W | Tyron Woodley | Submission | R1 | UFC 260: Miocic vs. Ngannou |
| 2020-08-01 | W | Randy Brown | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Shahbazyan |
| 2020-05-09 | W | Niko Price | TKO (doctor) | R3 | UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje |
| 2019-11-02 | L | Stephen Thompson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 244: Masvidal vs. Diaz |
| 2019-08-10 | W | Mike Perry | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Shevchenko vs. Carmouche 2 |
| 2019-05-18 | W | Derrick Krantz | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Lee |
| 2019-02-17 | W | Bryan Barberena | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Velasquez |
| 2018-10-06 | W | Jalin Turner | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor |
| 2018-05-19 | W | Chad Laprise | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Usman |
| 2017-10-28 | W | Niko Price | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Machida |
| 2017-03-18 | L | Leon Edwards | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson |
| 2016-11-12 | W | Belal Muhammad | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor |
| 2016-09-24 | W | Hector Urbina | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Cyborg vs. Lansberg |
| 2016-07-07 | W | Alvaro Herrera Mendoza | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Alvarez |
| 2015-12-19 | W | Hayder Hassan | Submission | R1 | UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 |
| 2015-07-12 | L | Michael Graves | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: American Top Team vs. Blackzilians Finale |
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.
