Built from Matthew Riddle’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder
6' 1" southpaw grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 7 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 5 decision, 1 other. Top 14% of Welterweights: stuffs 89% of the takedowns tried on him and averages 3.51 takedowns per 15 minutes.
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. 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.
| Nickname | Deep Waters |
| Nationality | pending |
| Hometown | pending |
| Camp | pending |
| Height | 6' 1" |
| Reach | 76" |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Age | 40 |
| Date of birth | Jan 14, 1986 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 8-3 |
| UFC record | UFC 7-3 (2 draws/NC) first fight 2008-06-21 · last fight 2013-02-16 |
| Finish split | 7 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 5 decision, 1 other |
| Social |
Career averages over Matthew Riddle’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.
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.27 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.
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.
† 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 2013-02-16.
Pro record: 8-3. In the UFC: 7-3-2. Matthew Riddle’s last 8 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.
1 post-fight bonus since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night.
| Date | Award | Opponent | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-09-17 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Lance Benoist | UFC Fight Night: Shields vs Ellenberger |
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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-02-16 | D | Che Mills | Overturned | R3 | UFC on FUEL TV: Barao vs McDonald |
| 2012-11-17 | W | John Maguire | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 154: St-Pierre vs Condit |
| 2012-07-21 | D | Chris Clements | Overturned | R3 | UFC 149: Faber vs Barao |
| 2012-02-04 | W | Henry Martinez | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 143: Diaz vs Condit |
| 2011-09-17 | L | Lance Benoist | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Shields vs Ellenberger |
| 2010-12-11 | L | Sean Pierson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 124: St-Pierre vs Koscheck 2 |
| 2010-08-01 | W | DaMarques Johnson | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Live: Jones vs Matyushenko |
| 2010-03-27 | W | Greg Soto | DQ | R3 | UFC 111: St-Pierre vs Hardy |
| 2009-11-14 | L | Nick Osipczak | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 105: Couture vs Vera |
| 2009-08-08 | W | Dan Cramer | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 101: Declaration |
| 2009-02-07 | W | Steve Bruno | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Lauzon vs Stephens |
| 2008-06-21 | W | Dante Rivera | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest 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.
The 10 cities Matthew Riddle has fought a UFC bout in. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.