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Cam Nelson

UFC 1-0Pro 8-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Cam Nelson’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Wrestler

UFC recordUFC 1-0 only UFC fight 2026-08-29
Pro record8-1
Current streak1 win
Last 1 (UFC)W
DivisionWelterweight
Age28
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox wrestler campaigning at Welterweight. 1 UFC win — 1 decision. Best of Welterweights: stuffs 100% of the takedowns tried on him and connects with 58% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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. 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
Nationalitypending
Hometownpending
Camppending
Height5' 11"
Reach72"
StanceOrthodox
Age28
Date of birthJul 28, 1998
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record8-1
UFC recordUFC 1-0 only UFC fight 2026-08-29
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Cam Nelson’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 / min2.73
Striking accuracy58%
Strikes absorbed / min2.60
Striking defence50%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min4.00
Takedown accuracy36%
Takedown defence100%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

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.
Striking70
Defence54
Grappling / TD66
Cardio limited sample52
Chin limited sample63
Fight IQ61

Our calls on Cam Nelson’s fights

Every fight of Cam Nelson’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 Cam Nelson’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% 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
2026-08-29Ding MengCam Nelson67.5%Correct

Strike zones

Strike zones

Cam Nelson

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

HEAD78.1%ACC 56%BODY2.4%FIELD 21%LEGS19.5%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Ground striker 61% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
78.1% acc 56%+15.6 vs field
BODY
2.4%−18.6 vs field
LEGS
19.5%+3.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 37%CLINCH 2%GROUND 61%

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 sample1 UFC fights · 41 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Cam Nelson

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

4.00takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 4.00 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.90 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS91
4.00 / 15m+1.90 vs field
ATTEMPTS95
11.11 / 15m+6.05 vs field
ACCURACY41
36%−10pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.33 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: 8-1. In the UFC: 1-0. Cam Nelson’s last 1 UFC bout, 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 — 1 bout every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-08-29WDing MengDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Nurmagomedov 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 scale

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

DateOpponentWeight / limitDivisionSource
2026-08-29Ding Meng170 / 171MADEWelterweightUFC.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 1 city Cam Nelson 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.

Shanghai, China — 1 bout, 2026

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

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