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Austin Vanderford

UFC 1-1Pro 13-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Austin Vanderford’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder

UFC recordUFC 1-1 first fight 2025-02-22 · last fight 2025-10-04
Pro record13-3
Current streak1 loss
Last 2 (UFC)L W
DivisionWelterweight
Age36
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO. Best of Welterweights: stuffs 100% of the takedowns tried on him and connects with 59% of his significant strikes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
Born inSanta Rosa, California, United States Wikipedia
Fights out ofPortland, Oregon, United States Wikipedia
CampGracie Barra Portland
Height5' 11"
Reach74"
StanceOrthodox
Age36
Date of birthMar 21, 1990
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record13-3
UFC recordUFC 1-1 first fight 2025-02-22 · last fight 2025-10-04
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Austin Vanderford’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 / min3.04
Striking accuracy59%
Strikes absorbed / min2.71
Striking defence48%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.08
Takedown accuracy35%
Takedown defence100%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.20

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.
Striking74
Defence50
Grappling / TD62
Cardio Round-2 tape only limited sample90
Chin limited sample66
Fight IQ68

Our calls on Austin Vanderford’s fights

We have not called one of Austin Vanderford’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 2 of Austin Vanderford’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

Austin Vanderford

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

HEAD93.2%ACC 64%BODY2.3%FIELD 21%LEGS4.5%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Ground striker 84% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
93.2% acc 64%+30.7 vs field
BODY
2.3%−18.7 vs field
LEGS
4.5%−12.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 16%CLINCH 0%GROUND 84%

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.

Limited sample2 UFC fights · 44 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Austin Vanderford

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

3.08takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.08 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +0.98 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS81
3.08 / 15m+0.98 vs field
ATTEMPTS86
8.80 / 15m+3.74 vs field
ACCURACY39
35%−11pp vs field
SUB ATT67
1.20 / 15m−0.13 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

Recent form

Pro record: 13-3. In the UFC: 1-1. Austin Vanderford’s last 2 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 — 2 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2025-10-04LRamiz BrahimajSubmissionR2UFC 320: Ankalaev vs. Pereira 2
2025-02-22WNikolay VeretennikovKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Song

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 2 cities Austin Vanderford 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 — 1 bout, 2025Seattle, Washington, USA — 1 bout, 2025

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

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