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

Justin Salas

UFC 3-4Pro 12-7tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 3-4 first fight 2012-02-15 · last fight 2016-03-05
Pro record12-7
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L W
DivisionLightweight
Age44
Height5' 8"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 8" southpaw all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 3 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 2 decision. Top 5% of Lightweights: avoids 68% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameJ-Bomb
NationalityUnited States
Born inGreen River, Wyoming, United States Wikipedia
Fights out ofDenver, Colorado Wikipedia
CampGrudge Training Center
Height5' 8"
Reach70"
StanceSouthpaw
Age44
Date of birthMar 13, 1982
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record12-7
UFC recordUFC 3-4 first fight 2012-02-15 · last fight 2016-03-05
Finish split3 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 2 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Justin Salas’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 / min3.42
Striking accuracy43%
Strikes absorbed / min2.96
Striking defence68%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.43
Takedown accuracy20%
Takedown defence0%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight 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 Lightweight.
Striking58
Defence80
Grappling / TD40
Cardio45
Chin8
Fight IQ46

Strike zones

Strike zones

Justin Salas

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

HEAD57.4%ACC 33%BODY20.1%ACC 71%LEGS22.5%ACC 72%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 22.5% to the legs — +5.4 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
57.4% acc 33%−4.7 vs field
BODY
20.1% acc 71%−0.7 vs field
LEGS
22.5% acc 72%+5.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 67%CLINCH 21%GROUND 12%

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 · 169 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Justin Salas

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

2.43takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.43 landed per 15 minutes — +0.21 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS69
2.43 / 15m+0.21 vs field
ATTEMPTS94
12.15 / 15m+6.60 vs field
ACCURACY12
20%−23pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.31 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.19 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 Lightweight

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.
3.42/min#614 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
3.43/min#764 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
2.96/min#420 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
2.46/min#356 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
43.2%#812 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
41.9%#1,150 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.
3.09small sample (7 fights)
1.79small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
43%small sample (7 fights)
40%#1,324 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
0.0%small sample (7 fights)
0.0%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.
246 secsmall sample (7 fights)
225 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.
76%small sample (2 fights)
89%small sample (1 fight)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.30 per 15 min#543 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.45 per 15 min#449 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
14%#713 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
20%#613 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%#1,048 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#994 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 2016-03-05.

Recent form

Pro record: 12-7. In the UFC: 3-4. Justin Salas’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
2016-03-05LJason SaggoKO/TKOR1UFC 196: McGregor vs Diaz
2014-07-16LJoe ProctorKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs Miller
2014-05-10WBen WallKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Brown vs Silva
2013-11-09LThiago TavaresSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs Henderson 2
2013-07-27WAaron RileyDecision (split)R3UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Moraga
2012-06-08LTim MeansKO/TKOR1UFC on FX: Johnson vs McCall
2012-02-15WAnton KuivanenDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FUEL TV: Sanchez vs Ellenberger

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 7 cities Justin Salas 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.

Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2014Cincinnati, Ohio, USA — 1 bout, 2014Goiania, Goias, Brazil — 1 bout, 2013Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2016Omaha, Nebraska, USA — 1 bout, 2012Seattle, Washington, USA — 1 bout, 2013Sunrise, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2012Camp: Grudge Training Center

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

← See the full public record