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Colton Smith

UFC 1-3Pro 7-4tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 1-3 first fight 2012-12-15 · last fight 2014-06-28
Pro record7-4
Current streak3 losses
Last 4 (UFC)L L L W
DivisionLightweight
Age39
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox wrestler campaigning at Lightweight. 1 UFC win — 1 decision. Top 10% of Lightweights: averages 4.09 takedowns per 15 minutes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 inAnkeny, Iowa, United States Wikipedia
CampVanguard
Height6' 0"
Reach71"
StanceOrthodox
Age39
Date of birthAug 14, 1987
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record7-4
UFC recordUFC 1-3 first fight 2012-12-15 · last fight 2014-06-28
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Colton Smith’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 / min1.64
Striking accuracy41%
Strikes absorbed / min2.30
Striking defence51%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min4.09
Takedown accuracy36%
Takedown defence25%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.40

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight 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 Lightweight.
Striking34
Defence60
Grappling / TD71
Cardio49
Chin21
Fight IQ47

Strike zones

Strike zones

Colton Smith

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

HEAD38.9%ACC 25%BODY20.4%FIELD 21%LEGS40.7%ACC 79%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 40.7% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +23.6 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
38.9% acc 25%−23.2 vs field
BODY
20.4%−0.4 vs field
LEGS
40.7% acc 79%+23.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 56%CLINCH 32%GROUND 13%

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.

4 UFC fights · 54 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Colton Smith

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

4.09takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 4.09 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.87 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS90
4.09 / 15m+1.87 vs field
ATTEMPTS93
11.36 / 15m+5.81 vs field
ACCURACY47
36%−7pp vs field
SUB ATT77
1.40 / 15m+0.09 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.19 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 Lightweight

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.
1.64/minsmall sample (4 fights)
1.64/min#1,655 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
2.30/minsmall sample (4 fights)
2.30/min#287 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
41.5%small sample (4 fights)
41.5%#1,308 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.
2.94small sample (4 fights)
2.94small sample (4 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
25%small sample (4 fights)
25%#1,068 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
25.0%small sample (4 fights)
25.0%small sample (4 fights)
Get-up speedSeconds the opponent stays in control after each takedown landed on this fighter. Lower means back on their feet faster.
46 secsmall sample (4 fights)
46 sec#61 of 1,245 ranked in the UFC
Cardio and late rounds
Round-3 pace kept†Round-3 striking pace as a share of round-1 pace. 100% means no fade.
150%small sample (1 fight)
150%small sample (1 fight)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.45 per 15 minsmall sample (4 fights)
0.45 per 15 min#442 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
0%small sample (4 fights)
0%#1,423 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%small sample (4 fights)
0%#1,354 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 2014-06-28.

Recent form

Pro record: 7-4. In the UFC: 1-3. Colton Smith’s last 4 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 — 4 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2014-06-28LDiego FerreiraSubmissionR1—
2013-11-06LMichael ChiesaSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Fight for the Troops 3
2013-05-25LRobert WhittakerKO/TKOR3UFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2
2012-12-15WMike RicciDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson Finale

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 Colton Smith has fought a UFC bout in. 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, 2012–2013Fort Campbell, Kentucky, USA — 1 bout, 2013

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

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