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Aaron Riley

UFC 3-6Pro 30-14-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 3-6 first fight 2002-05-10 · last fight 2013-07-27
Pro record30-14-1
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L W
DivisionLightweight
Age45
Height5' 8"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 8" southpaw all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 3 UFC wins — 3 decision. Top 20% of Lightweights: avoids 61% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Tell City, Indiana
CampJackson-Wink MMA
Height5' 8"
Reach69"
StanceSouthpaw
Age45
Date of birthDec 09, 1980
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record30-14-1
UFC recordUFC 3-6 first fight 2002-05-10 · last fight 2013-07-27
Finish split3 UFC wins — 3 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Aaron Riley’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 / min3.45
Striking accuracy34%
Strikes absorbed / min3.78
Striking defence61%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.18
Takedown accuracy34%
Takedown defence60%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.10

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.
Striking42
Defence62
Grappling / TD27
Cardio74
Chin49
Fight IQ51

Strike zones

Strike zones

Aaron Riley

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

HEAD46.8%ACC 22%BODY29.3%ACC 65%LEGS23.9%ACC 69%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 23.9% to the legs — +6.8 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
46.8% acc 22%−15.3 vs field
BODY
29.3% acc 65%+8.5 vs field
LEGS
23.9% acc 69%+6.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 60%CLINCH 32%GROUND 7%

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.

9 UFC fights · 314 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Aaron Riley

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

1.18takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.18 landed per 15 minutes — −1.04 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS33
1.18 / 15m−1.04 vs field
ATTEMPTS34
3.47 / 15m−2.08 vs field
ACCURACY41
34%−9pp vs field
SUB ATT6
0.10 / 15m−1.21 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

Recent form

Pro record: 30-14-1. In the UFC: 3-6. Aaron Riley’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 Fight of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2008-11-15FOTNFight of the NightJorge GurgelUFC 91: Couture vs Lesnar

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: 245 of 1,339 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.

Full UFC career — 9 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2013-07-27LJustin SalasDecision (split)R3UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Moraga
2011-09-24LTony FergusonTKO (doctor)R1UFC 135: Jones vs Rampage
2010-05-29WJoe BrammerDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 114: Rampage vs Evans
2009-11-14LRoss PearsonTKO (doctor)R2UFC 105: Couture vs Vera
2009-08-08WShane NelsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 101: Declaration
2009-03-07LShane NelsonKO/TKOR1UFC 96: Jackson vs Jardine
2008-11-15WJorge GurgelDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 91: Couture vs Lesnar
2006-01-16LSpencer FisherTKO (doctor)R1UFC Fight Night 3
2002-05-10LRobbie LawlerDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 37: High Impact

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 Aaron Riley 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 — 3 bouts, 2006–2010Bossier City, Louisiana, USA — 1 bout, 2002Columbus, Ohio, USA — 1 bout, 2009Denver, Colorado, USA — 1 bout, 2011Manchester, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2009Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — 1 bout, 2009Seattle, Washington, USA — 1 bout, 2013Camp: Jackson-Wink MMAHometown: Tell City, Indiana

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

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