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Matthew Semelsberger

UFC 5-6Pro 11-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Matthew Semelsberger’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

UFC recordUFC 5-6 first fight 2020-08-22 · last fight 2024-11-09
Pro record11-8
Current streak4 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L W
DivisionWelterweight
Age33
Height6' 1"
StanceSwitch

6' 1" switch decision fighter campaigning at Welterweight. 5 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 3 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameSemi The Jedi
NationalityUnited States
Born inRockville, Maryland, United States Wikipedia
Camppending
Height6' 1"
Reach75"
StanceSwitch
Age33
Date of birthNov 23, 1992
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record11-8
UFC recordUFC 5-6 first fight 2020-08-22 · last fight 2024-11-09
Finish split5 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 3 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Matthew Semelsberger’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 / min3.77
Striking accuracy42%
Strikes absorbed / min4.24
Striking defence54%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.01
Takedown accuracy57%
Takedown defence45%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

FightIQ Metrics

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.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Welterweight.
Striking59
Defence44
Grappling / TD45
Cardio64
Chin57
Fight IQ54

Our calls on Matthew Semelsberger’s fights

We have not called one of Matthew Semelsberger’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 4 of Matthew Semelsberger’s fights, 2 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Matthew Semelsberger

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

HEAD64.6%ACC 35%BODY16.9%ACC 61%LEGS18.5%ACC 85%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 65% head / 17% body / 18% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
64.6% acc 35%+2.1 vs field
BODY
16.9% acc 61%−4.1 vs field
LEGS
18.5% acc 85%+2.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 80%CLINCH 8%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.

11 UFC fights · 449 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Matthew Semelsberger

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

1.01takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.01 landed per 15 minutes — −1.09 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS31
1.01 / 15m−1.09 vs field
ATTEMPTS17
1.77 / 15m−3.29 vs field
ACCURACY78
57%+11pp vs field
SUB ATT26
0.40 / 15m−0.93 vs field

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.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.
3.77/min#473 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
2.52/min#1,270 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
4.24/min#952 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
3.27/min#749 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
43.0%#744 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
42.0%#1,106 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.
0.28#128 of 399 ranked in the UFC
0.76small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
18%#594 of 803 ranked in the UFC
40%#1,256 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
45.7%#887 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
37.5%#1,168 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.
87 sec#245 of 990 ranked in the UFC
79 sec#273 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.
104%#371 of 585 ranked in the UFC
52%#570 of 605 ranked in the UFC
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
1.26 per 15 min#28 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
1.54 per 15 min#38 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
18%#491 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#943 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%#849 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#757 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 2024-11-09.

Recent form

Pro record: 11-8. In the UFC: 5-6. Matthew Semelsberger’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.

Post-fight bonuses

1 post-fight bonus since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2021-03-13POTNPerformance of the NightJason WittUFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Muhammad

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 — 11 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2024-11-09LCharles RadtkeKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Prates
2024-01-13LPreston ParsonsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2
2023-07-29LUros MedicKO/TKOR3UFC 291: Poirier vs. Gaethje 2
2023-04-22LJeremiah WellsDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Pavlovich vs. Blaydes
2022-12-17WJake MatthewsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Strickland
2022-07-30LAlex MoronoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2
2022-03-12WAJ FletcherDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Ankalaev
2021-09-25WMartin SanoKO/TKOR1UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega
2021-06-19LKhaos WilliamsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Jung vs. Ige
2021-03-13WJason WittKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Muhammad
2020-08-22WCarlton MinusDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Munhoz vs. Edgar

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 Matthew Semelsberger 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.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 9 bouts, 2020–2024Dallas, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2022Salt Lake City, Utah, USA — 1 bout, 2023

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

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