This Saturday Buckley vs Malott · Rogers Place Edmonton AB Canada See this week's picks →
FightIQ · Record · Josh Samman
JS

Josh Samman

UFC 3-2Pro 13-4tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 3-2 first fight 2013-04-13 · last fight 2016-07-13
Pro record13-4
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W W
DivisionMiddleweight
Age38
Height6' 3"
StanceOrthodox

6' 3" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight. 3 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 1 submission.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameAnqa
NationalityUnited States
Born inDes Moines, Iowa, United States Wikipedia
Fights out ofTallahassee, Florida, United States Wikipedia
CampMMA Masters
Height6' 3"
Reach79"
StanceOrthodox
Age38
Date of birthMar 14, 1988
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record13-4
UFC recordUFC 3-2 first fight 2013-04-13 · last fight 2016-07-13
Finish split3 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 1 submission
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Josh Samman’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 / min2.08
Striking accuracy52%
Strikes absorbed / min2.47
Striking defence34%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.09
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence33%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking57
Defence42
Grappling / TD28
Cardio limited sample36
Chin60
Fight IQ45

Strike zones

Strike zones

Josh Samman

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

HEAD39.5%ACC 37%BODY40.7%ACC 65%LEGS19.8%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Body puncher 40.7% of his landed strikes go to the body — +20.2 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
39.5% acc 37%−24.0 vs field
BODY
40.7% acc 65%+20.2 vs field
LEGS
19.8%+3.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 42%CLINCH 42%GROUND 16%

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.

5 UFC fights · 86 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Josh Samman

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

1.09takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.09 landed per 15 minutes — −1.19 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS31
1.09 / 15m−1.19 vs field
ATTEMPTS39
3.30 / 15m−2.03 vs field
ACCURACY32
33%−14pp vs field
SUB ATT22
0.40 / 15m−1.15 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

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.
2.08/min#1,099 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
2.08/min#1,477 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
2.47/min#253 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
2.47/min#360 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
52.8%small sample (5 fights)
52.8%#403 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.
0.00small sample (5 fights)
0.00small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
20%small sample (5 fights)
20%#883 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
33.3%small sample (5 fights)
33.3%#1,339 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.
214 sec#918 of 990 ranked in the UFC
214 sec#1,135 of 1,245 ranked in the UFC
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.73 per 15 min#159 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.73 per 15 min#222 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
40%#185 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
40%#160 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
20%#354 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
20%#411 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC

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 2016-07-13.

Recent form

Pro record: 13-4. In the UFC: 3-2. Josh Samman’s last 5 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 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2014-12-06POTNPerformance of the NightEddie GordonUFC 181: Hendricks vs Lawler II

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 — 5 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2016-07-13LTim BoetschKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: McDonald vs. Lineker
2015-12-19LTamdan McCrorySubmissionR3UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2
2015-07-12WCaio MagalhaesSubmissionR1The Ultimate Fighter: American Top Team vs. Blackzilians Finale
2014-12-06WEddie GordonKO/TKOR2UFC 181: Hendricks vs Lawler II
2013-04-13WKevin CaseyKO/TKOR2The Ultimate Fighter: Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen 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 3 cities Josh Samman 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 — 3 bouts, 2013–2015Orlando, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2015Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA — 1 bout, 2016Camp: MMA Masters

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

← See the full public record