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Da'Mon Blackshear

UFC 5-4 (1 draw/NC)Pro 17-8-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Da'Mon Blackshear’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler

UFC recordUFC 5-4 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2022-08-13 · last fight 2025-07-26
Pro record17-8-1
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W W W L
DivisionBantamweight
Age32
Height5' 10"
StanceSwitch

5' 10" switch submission grappler campaigning at Bantamweight. 5 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 1 decision. Top 16% of Bantamweights: averages 1.5 submission attempts per 15 minutes and lands 4.33 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Monster
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Fayetteville, North Carolina
CampKill Cliff FC
Height5' 10"
Reach72"
StanceSwitch
Age32
Date of birthAug 12, 1994
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record17-8-1
UFC recordUFC 5-4 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2022-08-13 · last fight 2025-07-26
Finish split5 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 1 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Da'Mon Blackshear’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 / min4.33
Striking accuracy45%
Strikes absorbed / min4.19
Striking defence52%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.48
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence71%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.50

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Bantamweight 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 Bantamweight.
Striking72
Defence40
Grappling / TD57
Cardio58
Chin59
Fight IQ57

Our calls on Da'Mon Blackshear’s fights

We have not called one of Da'Mon Blackshear’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 9 of Da'Mon Blackshear’s fights, 8 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

Da'Mon Blackshear

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

HEAD55.4%ACC 36%BODY23.2%ACC 68%LEGS21.4%ACC 74%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 55% head / 23% body / 21% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
55.4% acc 36%−6.2 vs field
BODY
23.2% acc 68%+1.3 vs field
LEGS
21.4% acc 74%+4.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 78%CLINCH 14%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.

10 UFC fights · 439 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Da'Mon Blackshear

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

1.48takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 1.50 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +0.42 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS45
1.48 / 15m−0.62 vs field
ATTEMPTS49
4.48 / 15m−1.13 vs field
ACCURACY42
33%−8pp vs field
SUB ATT84
1.50 / 15m+0.42 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.50 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 Bantamweight

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.
4.33/min#289 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
4.39/min#369 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
4.19/min#937 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
4.32/min#1,256 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
45.9%#559 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
44.5%#880 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.
0.43small sample (10 fights)
1.20small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
11%#488 of 803 ranked in the UFC
20%#993 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
71.4%#352 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
85.7%#269 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.
136 sec#653 of 990 ranked in the UFC
201 secsmall sample (5 fights)
Cardio and late rounds
Round-3 pace kept†Round-3 striking pace as a share of round-1 pace. 100% means no fade.
149%#99 of 585 ranked in the UFC
159%small sample (2 fights)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.00 per 15 min#1,021 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.00 per 15 min#1,350 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
11%#800 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#1,300 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
33%#111 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
40%#111 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 2025-07-26.

Recent form

Pro record: 17-8-1. In the UFC: 5-4-1. Da'Mon Blackshear’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.

Post-fight bonuses

2 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 2 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2024-11-09POTNPerformance of the NightCody StamannUFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Prates
2023-08-12POTNPerformance of the NightJose JohnsonUFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Dos Anjos

The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.

Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 20 of 611 Fight of the Night, 274 of 1,368 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.

Full UFC career — 10 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2025-07-26LDavey GrantDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. De Ridder
2025-04-26WAlatengheiliDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Machado Garry vs. Prates
2025-03-15WCody GibsonSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2
2024-11-09WCody StamannSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Prates
2024-07-13LMontel JacksonKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. Cortez
2023-08-19LMario BautistaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley
2023-08-12WJose JohnsonSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Dos Anjos
2023-06-03WLuan LacerdaKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Kara-France vs. Albazi
2023-03-04LFarid BasharatDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane
2022-08-13DYoussef ZalalDecision (majority)R3UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Cruz

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 6 cities Da'Mon Blackshear has fought a UFC bout in, the camp on the record and the hometown 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 — 5 bouts, 2023–2025Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 1 bout, 2025Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 1 bout, 2023Denver, Colorado, USA — 1 bout, 2024Kansas City, Missouri, USA — 1 bout, 2025San Diego, California, USA — 1 bout, 2022Camp: Kill Cliff FCHometown: Fayetteville, North Carolina

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

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