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Zak Cummings
25-7tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record25-7
Current streak2 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W L W W
DivisionMiddleweight
Age42
Height6' 0"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 0" southpaw submission grappler campaigning at Middleweight. 10 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 4 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
HometownSpringfield, Missouri
Fighting out ofFactory X
Height6' 0"
Reach75.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age42
Date of birthAug 02, 1984
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record25-7
Finish split10 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 4 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Zak Cummings’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 / min2.96
Striking accuracy35%
Strikes absorbed / min2.91
Striking defence55%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.62
Takedown accuracy28%
Takedown defence66%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.60

FightIQ Metrics

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.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Middleweight.
Striking39
Defence61
Grappling / TD24
Cardio77
Chin98
Fight IQ60

Our calls on Zak Cummings’s fights

We have not called one of Zak Cummings’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 1 of Zak Cummings’s fights, 1 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.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Zak Cummings

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

HEAD60.3%ACC 27%BODY18.8%ACC 64%LEGS20.9%ACC 85%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 60% head / 19% body / 21% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
60.3% acc 27%−3.3 vs field
BODY
18.8% acc 64%−1.8 vs field
LEGS
20.9% acc 85%+5.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 81%CLINCH 12%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.

14 UFC fights · 494 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Zak Cummings

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

0.62takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.62 takedowns and 0.60 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS16
0.62 / 15m−1.65 vs field
ATTEMPTS26
2.21 / 15m−3.11 vs field
ACCURACY22
28%−19pp vs field
SUB ATT35
0.60 / 15m−0.96 vs field

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.

Ranked in Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 25-7. In the UFC: 10-4. Zak Cummings’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.

Full UFC career — 14 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2023-04-15WEd HermanKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Allen
2020-08-29WAlessio Di ChiricoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakic
2019-09-07LOmari AkhmedovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 242: Khabib vs. Poirier
2019-05-18WTrevin GilesSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Lee
2018-12-15WTrevor SmithDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Lee vs. Iaquinta
2018-05-19LMichel PrazeresDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Usman
2017-04-15WNathan CoySubmissionR1UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Reis
2016-11-19WAlexander YakovlevSubmissionR2
2016-08-06LSantiago PonzinibbioDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Caceres
2016-04-10WNicolas DalbyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs Dos Santos
2015-07-25WDominique SteeleKO/TKOR1UFC on FOX: Dillashaw vs. Barao II
2014-07-19LGunnar NelsonSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Brandao
2014-05-10WYan CabralDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Brown vs Silva
2013-08-28WBen AllowaySubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann 2

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.

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