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Cathal Pendred

UFC 4-2Pro 17-4-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Cathal Pendred’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

UFC recordUFC 4-2 first fight 2014-07-19 · last fight 2015-10-24
Pro record17-4-1
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W W
DivisionWelterweight
Age39
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox decision fighter campaigning at Welterweight. 4 UFC wins — 1 submission, 3 decision. Top 18% of Welterweights: stuffs 83% of the takedowns tried on 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Punisher
NationalityIreland
Hometown (per Sherdog)Dublin, Leinster
CampSBG Ireland
Height6' 1"
Reach75"
StanceOrthodox
Age39
Date of birthSep 02, 1987
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record17-4-1
UFC recordUFC 4-2 first fight 2014-07-19 · last fight 2015-10-24
Finish split4 UFC wins — 1 submission, 3 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Cathal Pendred’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 / min2.49
Striking accuracy44%
Strikes absorbed / min3.01
Striking defence55%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.46
Takedown accuracy23%
Takedown defence83%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

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.
Striking46
Defence60
Grappling / TD37
Cardio30
Chin32
Fight IQ41

Strike zones

Strike zones

Cathal Pendred

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

HEAD30.2%ACC 22%BODY20.9%ACC 67%LEGS48.9%ACC 85%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 48.9% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +32.4 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
30.2% acc 22%−32.3 vs field
BODY
20.9% acc 67%−0.1 vs field
LEGS
48.9% acc 85%+32.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 78%CLINCH 22%GROUND 0%

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.

6 UFC fights · 182 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Cathal Pendred

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

2.46takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.46 landed per 15 minutes — +0.36 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS71
2.46 / 15m+0.36 vs field
ATTEMPTS94
10.70 / 15m+5.63 vs field
ACCURACY15
23%−23pp vs field
SUB ATT26
0.40 / 15m−0.93 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: 17-4-1. In the UFC: 4-2. Cathal Pendred’s last 6 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
2014-07-19FOTNFight of the NightMike KingUFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Brandao

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 — 6 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2015-10-24LTom BreeseKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Holohan vs Smolka
2015-07-11LJohn HowardDecision (split)R3UFC 189: Mendes vs McGregor
2015-06-13WAugusto MontanoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 188: Velasquez vs Werdum
2015-01-18WSean SpencerDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Siver
2014-10-04WGasan UmalatovDecision (split)R3—
2014-07-19WMike KingSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Brandao

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 4 cities Cathal Pendred 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.

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland — 2 bouts, 2014–2015Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 1 bout, 2015Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2015Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico — 1 bout, 2015Camp: SBG IrelandHometown: Dublin, Leinster

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

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