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Ante Delija

UFC 1-2Pro 26-8Ranked #10 · Heavyweighttale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 1-2 first fight 2025-09-06 · last fight 2026-02-21
Pro record26-8
Current streak2 losses
Last 3 (UFC)L L W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age36
Height6' 3"
StanceOrthodox

6' 3" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Heavyweight. 1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO. Top 18% of Heavyweights: lands 4.28 significant strikes a minute.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameWalking Trouble
NationalityCroatia
Born inDubrovnik, Croatia Wikipedia
Fights out ofDubrovnik, Croatia Wikipedia
CampTeam Kaobon
Height6' 3"
Reach78"
StanceOrthodox
Age36
Date of birthAug 07, 1990
Weight239 lbs.
Pro record26-8
UFC recordUFC 1-2 first fight 2025-09-06 · last fight 2026-02-21
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Ante Delija has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Ante Delija in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Heavyweight57 weeks on the tables#6–10 · from the table of 9 September 2025#11–15 · from the table of 12 May 2026#6–10 · from the table of 17 June 2026Ranked today
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the table
Peak#9Heavyweight · Sep 2025
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
Current#10Heavyweight · Oct 2026

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 6 October 2026

A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.

Career rates facts

Career averages over Ante Delija’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 / min4.28
Striking accuracy38%
Strikes absorbed / min3.95
Striking defence52%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.00
Takedown accuracy0%
Takedown defence75%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Heavyweight 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 Heavyweight.
Striking54
Defence52
Grappling / TDn/a
Cardio limited sample56
Chin limited sample33
Fight IQ49

Our calls on Ante Delija’s fights

Every fight of Ante Delija’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 1 of Ante Delija’s fights in 2026: 0 correct (0–1 — 0% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-02-21Serghei SpivacAnte Delija50.7%Missed
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 2 of Ante Delija’s fights, 1 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

Ante Delija

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

HEAD91.1%ACC 36%BODY7.8%FIELD 18%LEGS1.1%FIELD 14%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 91.1% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +24.1 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
91.1% acc 36%+24.1 vs field
BODY
7.8%−10.7 vs field
LEGS
1.1%−13.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 91%CLINCH 4%GROUND 4%

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.

3 UFC fights · 90 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Ante Delija

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

0.00takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.00 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.39 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m−2.39 vs field
ATTEMPTS
Attempts per 15 needs both a landed rate and a completion rate; one of them is missing, so we do not divide.
n/a
ACCURACY
No takedown attempt on the record — UFCStats writes 0% here, which is not a completion rate.
n/a
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.71 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.29 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 Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 26-8. In the UFC: 1-2. Ante Delija’s last 3 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 — 3 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-02-21LSerghei SpivacDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Hernandez
2025-11-01LWaldo Cortes AcostaKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Garcia vs. Onama
2025-09-06WMarcin TyburaKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Imavov vs. Borralho

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 scale

Ante Delija’s official weigh-in — the weight the commission read off the scale, and the limit it had to be under.

DateOpponentWeight / limitDivisionSource
2026-02-21Serghei Spivac239 / 266MADEHeavyweightUFC.com

Weigh-in results cover the 31 UFC cards held in 2026 so far — 24 January 2026 to 12 September 2026. Earlier years are not on file yet, so a fighter with no row here is not a fighter who never missed weight.

On the map

The 3 cities Ante Delija 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.

Houston, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2026Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2025Paris, Ile-de-France, France — 1 bout, 2025

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

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