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Vicente Luque
24-12-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

Profile FightIQ Newsroom

Reported prose from our newsroom. Power striker

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.

Written 2026-08-15 · ahead of UFC 330 — Makhachev vs Machado Garry. News (#18) — checked against the fight record before publication.

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 Silent Assassin
NationalityUnited States
HometownWestwood, New Jersey
Fighting out ofKill Cliff FC
Height5' 11"
Reach75.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age34
Date of birthNov 27, 1991
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record24-12-1
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
Defence32
Grappling / TD46
Cardio35
Chin60
Fight IQ51

Our record on Vicente Luque

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

FightIQ has picked Vicente Luque 3×, 1 correct (1-2 — 33.3% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentCardWe saidResult
2026-08-15Tresean GoreMakhachev vs Machado Garry66.4%Missed
2024-12-07Themba GorimboUFC: Pantoja vs Asakura63.6%Correct
2024-03-30Joaquin BuckleyUFC Fight Night: Aslan vs Turkalj57.5%Missed

Strike zones

Strike zones

Vicente Luque

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

HEAD60.8%ACC 40%BODY13.5%ACC 71%LEGS25.7%ACC 86%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 25.7% to the legs — +9.4 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
60.8% acc 40%−2.1 vs field
BODY
13.5% acc 71%−7.3 vs field
LEGS
25.7% acc 86%+9.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 89%CLINCH 6%GROUND 6%

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.

26 UFC fights · 1,181 landed

Recent form

Pro record: 24-12-1. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).

L · vs Tresean GoreMakhachev vs Machado Garry2026-08-15
W · vs Themba GorimboUFC: Pantoja vs Asakura2024-12-07
L · vs Joaquin BuckleyUFC Fight Night: Aslan vs Turkalj2024-03-30
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