Joaquin Buckley vs Mike Malott — tale of the tape

The prediction

Our pick, its confidence, the method read and the time we published it are on the bout’s own page — the one URL that carries the prediction before the fight and the graded result after it.

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Tale of the tape

Joaquin Buckley vs Mike Malott — the facts, side by side. ▲ marks the reach edge.

UFC 11-6	UFC record	UFC 7-1
21-8	Pro record	14-2-1
New Mansa	Nickname	Proper
5' 10"	Height	6' 1"
76"▲	Reach	73"
Southpaw	Stance	Orthodox
32	Age	34
170 lbs.	Weight	170 lbs.
United States	Nationality	Canada
St. Louis, Missouri, United States	Born in	Burlington, Ontario, Canada
St. Louis, Missouri, United States	Fights out of	Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Murcielago MMA	Camp	Team Alpha Male

Vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. 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 UFC record is counted from the official results themselves.

FightIQ Metrics

Our read — not official stats. Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the fighter’s own weight class (the full roster where a division is too thin to rank in). The better score on each row is highlighted in that fighter's corner colour.

Joaquin BuckleyMike Malott

Striking

Defence

Grappling / TD

Cardio

Chin

Fight IQ

Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within weight class.

Strike zones

Where they go — head to head

Career UFC significant strikes by target zone. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Joaquin Buckley17 UFC fights · 723 landed

62.1%

HEAD

60.2%

27.9%

BODY

19.9%

10.0%

LEGS

19.9%

Mike Malott8 UFC fights · 301 landed

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.

Stat-by-stat

Joaquin Buckley (left) vs Mike Malott (right) — career striking & grappling rates. The fighter ahead on each row is highlighted in their corner colour.

Strikes landed / min

3.62

4.02

Striking accuracy

36%

48%

Strikes absorbed / min

3.1

3.09

Striking defence

58%

56%

Takedowns / 15 min

1.43

1.63

Takedown accuracy

45%

50%

Takedown defence

70%

57%

Sub attempts / 15 min

0.1

0.7

Career averages from public UFC statistics. On “strikes absorbed / min”, fewer is better.

Live market

The market line next to the live prediction-market price — information only, not a bet call.

Sportsbook line

Joaquin Buckley+120

Mike Malott-154

Live · Polymarket

Joaquin Buckley44% · +130

Mike Malott56% · -130

as of 2026-10-11T14:01:02Z · $2,772 liquidity. The implied chance is the market's number, not ours.

Go deeper

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