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Yaotzin Meza
21-11tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Yaotzin Meza’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record21-11
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L D
DivisionFeatherweight
Age45
Height5' 9"
StanceOrthodox

5' 9" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Featherweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 submission, 1 decision. Top 9% of Featherweights: absorbs only 1.62 significant strikes a minute and avoids 64% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
NationalityUnited States
HometownGlendale, Arizona
Fighting out ofMMA Lab
Height5' 9"
Reach71.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age45
Date of birthFeb 04, 1981
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record21-11
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 submission, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Yaotzin Meza’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 / min1.43
Striking accuracy41%
Strikes absorbed / min1.62
Striking defence64%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.06
Takedown accuracy20%
Takedown defence18%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.40

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Featherweight 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 Featherweight.
Striking30
Defence90
Grappling / TD39
Cardio21
Chin45
Fight IQ45

Strike zones

Strike zones

Yaotzin Meza

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

HEAD45.5%ACC 27%BODY19.8%ACC 62%LEGS34.7%ACC 78%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 34.7% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +17.9 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
45.5% acc 27%−17.5 vs field
BODY
19.8% acc 62%−0.4 vs field
LEGS
34.7% acc 78%+17.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 83%CLINCH 9%GROUND 8%

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.

7 UFC fights · 121 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Yaotzin Meza

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

1.06takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.06 landed per 15 minutes — −1.30 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS31
1.06 / 15m−1.30 vs field
ATTEMPTS54
5.30 / 15m−0.57 vs field
ACCURACY13
20%−23pp vs field
SUB ATT73
1.40 / 15m+0.13 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.73 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 Featherweight

Recent form

Pro record: 21-11. In the UFC: 2-4-1. Yaotzin Meza’s last 7 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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