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David Onama

UFC 6-3Pro 14-3Ranked #15 · Featherweighttale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from David Onama’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Technical striker

UFC recordUFC 6-3 first fight 2021-10-23 · last fight 2025-11-01
Pro record14-3
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W W W W
DivisionFeatherweight
Age32
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox technical striker campaigning at Featherweight. 6 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 decision. Top 13% of Featherweights: lands 5.07 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 inKyangwali, Uganda Wikipedia
Fights out ofKansas City, Missouri, United States Wikipedia
CampFactory X
Height5' 11"
Reach74"
StanceOrthodox
Age32
Date of birthJun 07, 1994
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record14-3
UFC recordUFC 6-3 first fight 2021-10-23 · last fight 2025-11-01
Finish split6 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week David Onama 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.

David Onama in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Featherweight77 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 29 April 2025Ranked today
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the table
Peak#13Featherweight · May 2025
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
Current#15Featherweight · 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 David Onama’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 / min5.07
Striking accuracy50%
Strikes absorbed / min4.89
Striking defence51%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.05
Takedown accuracy30%
Takedown defence52%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.50

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.
Striking82
Defence32
Grappling / TD31
Cardio72
Chin54
Fight IQ54

Our calls on David Onama’s fights

We have not called one of David Onama’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 5 of David Onama’s fights, 3 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

David Onama

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

HEAD79.8%ACC 47%BODY11.6%ACC 63%LEGS8.6%ACC 83%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 79.8% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +16.7 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
79.8% acc 47%+16.7 vs field
BODY
11.6% acc 63%−8.6 vs field
LEGS
8.6% acc 83%−8.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 79%CLINCH 8%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.

9 UFC fights · 509 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

David Onama

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

1.05takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.05 landed per 15 minutes — −1.53 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS30
1.05 / 15m−1.53 vs field
ATTEMPTS32
3.50 / 15m−2.60 vs field
ACCURACY30
30%−13pp vs field
SUB ATT32
0.50 / 15m−0.77 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.
5.07/min#136 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
4.90/min#246 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
4.89/min#1,088 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
4.26/min#1,235 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
50.0%#303 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
54.0%#217 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.
0.64#215 of 399 ranked in the UFC
1.43small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
11%#490 of 803 ranked in the UFC
20%#1,043 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
52.6%#770 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
61.1%#666 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.
79 sec#171 of 990 ranked in the UFC
65 sec#165 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.
95%#430 of 585 ranked in the UFC
138%#149 of 605 ranked in the UFC
Five-round win rate†Share of decided five-round fights won.
0%small sample (1 fight)
0%small sample (1 fight)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.60 per 15 min#218 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.52 per 15 min#379 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
22%#439 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
20%#767 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
11%#552 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#1,304 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 2025-11-01.

Recent form

Pro record: 14-3. In the UFC: 6-3. David Onama’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

3 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night, 2 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2023-06-24POTNPerformance of the NightGabriel SantosUFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Topuria
2022-08-13FOTNFight of the NightNate LandwehrUFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Cruz
2022-02-19POTNPerformance of the NightGabriel BenitezUFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Hill

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 — 9 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2025-11-01LSteve GarciaKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Garcia vs. Onama
2025-04-26WGiga ChikadzeDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Machado Garry vs. Prates
2024-11-16WRoberto RomeroDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 309: Jones vs. Miocic
2024-04-27WJonathan PearceDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Nicolau vs. Perez
2023-06-24WGabriel SantosKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Topuria
2022-08-13LNate LandwehrDecision (majority)R3UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Cruz
2022-07-09WGarrett ArmfieldSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Fiziev
2022-02-19WGabriel BenitezKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Hill
2021-10-23LMason JonesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Costa vs. Vettori

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 5 cities David Onama 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 — 5 bouts, 2021–2025Jacksonville, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2023Kansas City, Missouri, USA — 1 bout, 2025New York City, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2024San Diego, California, USA — 1 bout, 2022Camp: Factory X

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

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