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Jake O'Brien

UFC 4-3Pro 15-4tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Jake O'Brien’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Wrestle-grinder

UFC recordUFC 4-3 first fight 2006-08-17 · last fight 2009-07-11
Pro record15-4
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L L W
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age42
Height6' 3"
StanceOrthodox

6' 3" orthodox wrestle-grinder campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 4 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 3 decision. Top 3% of Light Heavyweights: avoids 69% of the strikes thrown at him and averages 6.39 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameIrish
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Indianapolis, Indiana
CampIntegrated Fighting Academy
Height6' 3"
Reach76"
StanceOrthodox
Age42
Date of birthSep 25, 1984
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record15-4
UFC recordUFC 4-3 first fight 2006-08-17 · last fight 2009-07-11
Finish split4 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Jake O'Brien’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 / min1.31
Striking accuracy31%
Strikes absorbed / min1.92
Striking defence69%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min6.39
Takedown accuracy54%
Takedown defence25%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking20
Defence90
Grappling / TD63
Cardio44
Chin54
Fight IQ54

Strike zones

Strike zones

Jake O'Brien

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

HEAD96.7%ACC 31%BODY3.3%FIELD 19%LEGS0.0%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Ground striker 59% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
96.7% acc 31%+32.5 vs field
BODY
3.3%−15.8 vs field
LEGS
0.0%−16.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 35%CLINCH 6%GROUND 59%

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.

7 UFC fights · 92 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Jake O'Brien

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

6.39takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 6.39 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +4.07 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS96
6.39 / 15m+4.07 vs field
ATTEMPTS93
11.83 / 15m+6.33 vs field
ACCURACY77
54%+10pp vs field
SUB ATT17
0.20 / 15m−1.40 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.25 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 Light 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.
1.32/min#1,208 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
1.10/min#1,776 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
1.93/min#95 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
2.45/min#347 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
31.8%#1,187 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
26.2%#1,729 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.
1.18small sample (7 fights)
1.22small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
29%small sample (7 fights)
40%#1,221 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
25.0%small sample (7 fights)
25.0%small sample (5 fights)
Get-up speedSeconds the opponent stays in control after each takedown landed on this fighter. Lower means back on their feet faster.
113 secsmall sample (7 fights)
104 sec#540 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.
31%small sample (3 fights)
50%small sample (2 fights)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.21 per 15 min#687 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.31 per 15 min#615 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
14%#687 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#830 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%#1,002 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#613 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 2009-07-11.

Recent form

Pro record: 15-4. In the UFC: 4-3. Jake O'Brien’s last 7 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 — 7 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2009-07-11LJon JonesSubmissionR2UFC 100
2009-01-31WChristian WellischDecision (split)R3UFC 94: St-Pierre vs Penn 2
2008-07-19LCain VelasquezKO/TKOR1UFC: Silva vs Irvin
2008-03-01LAndrei ArlovskiKO/TKOR2UFC 82: Pride of a Champion
2007-01-25WHeath HerringDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Evans vs Salmon
2006-11-18WJosh ShockmanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 65: Bad Intentions
2006-08-17WKristof MidouxKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night 6

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 4 cities Jake O'Brien has fought a UFC bout in 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 — 4 bouts, 2006–2009Columbus, Ohio, USA — 1 bout, 2008Hollywood, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2007Sacramento, California, USA — 1 bout, 2006Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana

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

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