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Matt Sayles

UFC 1-3Pro 8-4tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 1-3 first fight 2018-08-04 · last fight 2021-12-18
Pro record8-4
Current streak2 losses
Last 4 (UFC)L L W L
DivisionFeatherweight
Age32
Height5' 7"
StanceOrthodox

5' 7" orthodox technical striker campaigning at Featherweight. 1 UFC win — 1 submission. Top 16% of Featherweights: lands 4.83 significant strikes a minute and stuffs 81% of the takedowns tried on 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)San Diego, California
CampAlliance MMA
Height5' 7"
Reach68"
StanceOrthodox
Age32
Date of birthFeb 21, 1994
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record8-4
UFC recordUFC 1-3 first fight 2018-08-04 · last fight 2021-12-18
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 submission
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Matt Sayles’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 / min4.83
Striking accuracy41%
Strikes absorbed / min2.81
Striking defence61%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.36
Takedown accuracy16%
Takedown defence81%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.70

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.
Striking64
Defence72
Grappling / TD20
Cardio65
Chin78
Fight IQ60

Strike zones

Strike zones

Matt Sayles

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

HEAD52.7%ACC 28%BODY27.5%ACC 75%LEGS19.8%ACC 75%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 53% head / 28% body / 20% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
52.7% acc 28%−10.4 vs field
BODY
27.5% acc 75%+7.3 vs field
LEGS
19.8% acc 75%+3.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 77%CLINCH 8%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.

4 UFC fights · 167 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Matt Sayles

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

0.36takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.36 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.22 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS6
0.36 / 15m−2.22 vs field
ATTEMPTS17
2.25 / 15m−3.85 vs field
ACCURACY9
16%−27pp vs field
SUB ATT46
0.70 / 15m−0.57 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.
4.21/minsmall sample (4 fights)
4.21/min#427 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
2.87/minsmall sample (4 fights)
2.87/min#539 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
39.8%small sample (4 fights)
39.8%#1,266 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 (4 fights)
0.00small sample (4 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
0%small sample (4 fights)
0%#525 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
81.0%small sample (4 fights)
81.0%#162 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.
159 secsmall sample (4 fights)
159 sec#940 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.
225%small sample (1 fight)
225%small sample (1 fight)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.00 per 15 minsmall sample (4 fights)
0.00 per 15 min#1,503 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
0%small sample (4 fights)
0%#1,479 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
25%small sample (4 fights)
25%#195 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 2021-12-18.

Recent form

Pro record: 8-4. In the UFC: 1-3. Matt Sayles’s last 4 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 — 4 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2021-12-18LJordan LeavittSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus
2019-12-07LBryce MitchellSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Rozenstruik
2019-05-04WKyle NelsonSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cowboy
2018-08-04LSheymon MoraesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2

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 Matt Sayles has fought a UFC bout in, the camp on the record 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 — 1 bout, 2021Los Angeles, California, USA — 1 bout, 2018Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — 1 bout, 2019Washington, DC, USA — 1 bout, 2019Camp: Alliance MMAHometown: San Diego, California

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

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