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Clifford Starks

UFC 1-2Pro 13-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 1-2 first fight 2011-10-29 · last fight 2013-04-20
Pro record13-3
Current streak2 losses
Last 3 (UFC)L L W
DivisionMiddleweight
Age45
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight. 1 UFC win — 1 decision. Best of Middleweights: completes 100% of his takedown attempts.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 inSacramento, California, United States Wikipedia
Fights out ofTempe, Arizona, United States Wikipedia
CampArizona Combat Sports
Height6' 0"
Reach78"
StanceOrthodox
Age45
Date of birthApr 25, 1981
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record13-3
UFC recordUFC 1-2 first fight 2011-10-29 · last fight 2013-04-20
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Clifford Starks’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 / min1.94
Striking accuracy33%
Strikes absorbed / min2.49
Striking defence58%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.94
Takedown accuracy100%
Takedown defence60%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

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.
Striking24
Defence73
Grappling / TD78
Cardio limited sample64
Chin limited sample30
Fight IQ54

Strike zones

Strike zones

Clifford Starks

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

HEAD88.9%ACC 32%BODY8.9%FIELD 20%LEGS2.2%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 88.9% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +25.4 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
88.9% acc 32%+25.4 vs field
BODY
8.9%−11.6 vs field
LEGS
2.2%−13.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 78%CLINCH 7%GROUND 16%

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.

3 UFC fights · 45 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Clifford Starks

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

1.94takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 1.94 takedowns per 15 minutes at 100% completion — +53pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS57
1.94 / 15m−0.34 vs field
ATTEMPTS21
1.94 / 15m−3.39 vs field
ACCURACY100
100%+53pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.55 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

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.
1.94/minsmall sample (3 fights)
1.94/min#1,546 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
2.49/minsmall sample (3 fights)
2.49/min#369 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
33.1%small sample (3 fights)
33.1%#1,651 of 1,752 ranked in the UFC
Durability
Knockdowns per 100 head strikesKnockdowns suffered for every 100 head strikes absorbed. Lower means more punishment taken without going down.
3.33small sample (3 fights)
3.33small sample (3 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
33%small sample (3 fights)
33%small sample (3 fights)
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
60.0%small sample (3 fights)
60.0%#1,014 of 1,498 ranked in the UFC
Get-up speedSeconds the opponent stays in control after each takedown landed on this fighter. Lower means back on their feet faster.
43 secsmall sample (3 fights)
43 secsmall sample (3 fights)
Cardio and late rounds
Round-3 pace kept†Round-3 striking pace as a share of round-1 pace. 100% means no fade.
78%small sample (1 fight)
78%small sample (1 fight)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.00 per 15 minsmall sample (3 fights)
0.00 per 15 min#1,708 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
0%small sample (3 fights)
0%#1,732 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%small sample (3 fights)
0%#1,713 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC

† 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 2013-04-20.

Recent form

Pro record: 13-3. In the UFC: 1-2. Clifford Starks’s last 3 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 — 3 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2013-04-20LYoel RomeroKO/TKOR1UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Melendez
2012-02-04LEd HermanSubmissionR2UFC 143: Diaz vs Condit
2011-10-29WDustin JacobyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 137: Penn vs Diaz

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 map

The 2 cities Clifford Starks 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.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 2 bouts, 2011–2012San Jose, California, USA — 1 bout, 2013Camp: Arizona Combat Sports

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

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