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Aaron Pico

UFC 1-1Pro 14-5Ranked #11 · Featherweighttale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read
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FightIQ’s profile

Built from Aaron Pico’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Wrestler

UFC recordUFC 1-1 first fight 2025-08-16 · last fight 2026-04-11
Pro record14-5
Current streak1 win
Last 2 (UFC)W L
DivisionFeatherweight
Age30
Height5' 8"
StanceOrthodox

5' 8" orthodox wrestler campaigning at Featherweight. 1 UFC win — 1 decision. Top 4% of Featherweights: averages 6.54 takedowns per 15 minutes and lands 6.16 significant strikes a minute.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
Born inWhittier, California, United States Wikipedia
Fights out ofWhittier, California, United States Wikipedia
CampJackson-Wink MMA
Height5' 8"
Reach70"
StanceOrthodox
Age30
Date of birthSep 23, 1996
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record14-5
UFC recordUFC 1-1 first fight 2025-08-16 · last fight 2026-04-11
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Aaron Pico has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Aaron Pico in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Featherweight27 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 14 April 2026Ranked today
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the table
Peak#11Featherweight · Sep 2026
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
Current#11Featherweight · Oct 2026

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 12 October 2026

A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.

Career rates facts

Career averages over Aaron Pico’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 / min6.16
Striking accuracy53%
Strikes absorbed / min3.11
Striking defence45%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min6.54
Takedown accuracy50%
Takedown defence0%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

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.
Striking89
Defence38
Grappling / TD85
Cardio limited sample70
Chin limited sample17
Fight IQ60

Our calls on Aaron Pico’s fights

Every fight of Aaron Pico’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 1 of Aaron Pico’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% 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.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-04-11Patricio FreireAaron Pico75%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 1 of Aaron Pico’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

Aaron Pico

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

HEAD76.1%ACC 48%BODY14.2%ACC 80%LEGS9.7%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 76.1% upstairs — +13.0 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
76.1% acc 48%+13.0 vs field
BODY
14.2% acc 80%−6.0 vs field
LEGS
9.7%−7.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 86%CLINCH 8%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. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

Limited sample2 UFC fights · 113 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Aaron Pico

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

6.54takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 6.54 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +3.96 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS96
6.54 / 15m+3.96 vs field
ATTEMPTS95
13.08 / 15m+6.98 vs field
ACCURACY74
50%+7pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.27 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.09 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

Deep stats facts

Career and last-five-fight figures from round-by-round UFC records, with where each ranks among every UFC fighter who has fought enough to be ranked. Tap a stat name for the full leaderboard.

 CareerLast 5 fights
Striking
Strikes landedSignificant strikes landed per minute of fight time.
6.16/minsmall sample (2 fights)
6.16/minsmall sample (2 fights)
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
3.11/minsmall sample (2 fights)
3.11/minsmall sample (2 fights)
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
53.8%small sample (2 fights)
53.8%small sample (2 fights)
Durability
Knockdowns per 100 head strikesKnockdowns suffered for every 100 head strikes absorbed. Lower means more punishment taken without going down.
3.12small sample (2 fights)
3.12small sample (2 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
50%small sample (2 fights)
50%small sample (2 fights)
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
—not enough data to compute
—not enough data to compute
Get-up speedSeconds the opponent stays in control after each takedown landed on this fighter. Lower means back on their feet faster.
—not enough data to compute
—not enough data to compute
Cardio and late rounds
Round-3 pace kept†Round-3 striking pace as a share of round-1 pace. 100% means no fade.
132%small sample (1 fight)
132%small sample (1 fight)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.00 per 15 minsmall sample (2 fights)
0.00 per 15 minsmall sample (2 fights)
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
0%small sample (2 fights)
0%small sample (2 fights)
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%small sample (2 fights)
0%small sample (2 fights)

† Needs round-by-round data, which is missing for some UFC bouts. Those fights are left out, not estimated.

Every figure is built from UFC fights that have round-by-round data. Some older bouts do not, and are left out rather than estimated. Figures to 2026-04-11.

Recent form

Pro record: 14-5. In the UFC: 1-1. Aaron Pico’s last 2 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 — 2 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-04-11WPatricio PitbullDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 327: Prochazka vs. Ulberg
2025-08-16LLerone MurphyKO/TKOR1UFC 319: Du Plessis vs. Chimaev

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.

On the scale

Aaron Pico’s official weigh-in — the weight the commission read off the scale, and the limit it had to be under.

DateOpponentWeight / limitDivisionSource
2026-04-11Patricio Pitbull145 / 146MADEFeatherweightUFC.com

Weigh-in results cover the 31 UFC cards held in 2026 so far — 24 January 2026 to 12 September 2026. Earlier years are not on file yet, so a fighter with no row here is not a fighter who never missed weight.

On the map

The 2 cities Aaron Pico has fought a UFC bout in and the camp on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Chicago, Illinois, USA — 1 bout, 2025Miami, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2026Camp: Jackson-Wink MMA

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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