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Eddie Sanchez

UFC 3-3Pro 15-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 3-3 first fight 2006-09-23 · last fight 2008-12-10
Pro record15-8
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W L
DivisionHeavyweight
Age43
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Heavyweight. 3 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameThe Manic Hispanic
NationalityUnited States
Born inLa Jolla, California, United States Wikipedia
Fights out ofSan Diego, California, United States Wikipedia
CampKings MMA
Height6' 2"
Reach74"
StanceOrthodox
Age43
Date of birthNov 04, 1982
Weight230 lbs.
Pro record15-8
UFC recordUFC 3-3 first fight 2006-09-23 · last fight 2008-12-10
Finish split3 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO

Career rates facts

Career averages over Eddie Sanchez’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 / min3.45
Striking accuracy43%
Strikes absorbed / min3.30
Striking defence43%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.13
Takedown accuracy26%
Takedown defence42%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Heavyweight 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 Heavyweight.
Striking54
Defence44
Grappling / TD26
Cardio78
Chin24
Fight IQ45

Strike zones

Strike zones

Eddie Sanchez

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

HEAD81.4%ACC 39%BODY13.7%ACC 81%LEGS4.9%FIELD 14%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 81.4% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +14.4 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
81.4% acc 39%+14.4 vs field
BODY
13.7% acc 81%−4.8 vs field
LEGS
4.9%−9.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 39%CLINCH 43%GROUND 19%

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.

6 UFC fights · 183 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Eddie Sanchez

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

1.13takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.13 landed per 15 minutes — −1.26 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS36
1.13 / 15m−1.26 vs field
ATTEMPTS55
4.35 / 15m−0.71 vs field
ACCURACY16
26%−25pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.71 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.29 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 Heavyweight

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.
3.45/min#602 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
3.62/min#689 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
3.30/min#603 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
3.46/min#839 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
43.3%#799 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
44.5%#897 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.
2.65small sample (6 fights)
2.75small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
33%small sample (6 fights)
40%#1,293 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
42.9%small sample (6 fights)
50.0%#1,159 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.
274 secsmall sample (6 fights)
326 sec#1,227 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.
93%small sample (1 fight)
93%small sample (1 fight)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
1.13 per 15 min#41 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.94 per 15 min#130 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
50%#75 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
40%#147 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%#1,125 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#917 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 2008-12-10.

Recent form

Pro record: 15-8. In the UFC: 3-3. Eddie Sanchez’s last 6 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

1 post-fight bonus since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Knockout of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2007-12-29KOTNKnockout of the NightSoa PaleleiUFC 79: Nemesis

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 — 6 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2008-12-10LJustin McCullyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night - Fight for the Troops
2008-06-07LAntoni HardonkKO/TKOR2UFC 85: Bedlam
2007-12-29WSoa PaleleiKO/TKOR3UFC 79: Nemesis
2007-06-16WColin RobinsonKO/TKOR2UFC 72: Victory
2007-02-03LMirko FilipovicKO/TKOR1UFC 67: All or Nothing
2006-09-23WMario NetoKO/TKOR2UFC 63: Hughes vs Penn

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 Eddie Sanchez 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, 2007Anaheim, California, USA — 1 bout, 2006Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2007Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA — 1 bout, 2008London, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2008Camp: Kings MMA

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

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