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Chris Cariaso

UFC 7-6Pro 17-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 7-6 first fight 2011-01-22 · last fight 2015-10-03
Pro record17-8
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W W
DivisionFlyweight
Age45
Height5' 3"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 3" southpaw decision fighter campaigning at Flyweight. 7 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 6 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameKamikaze
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)San Francisco, California
CampFight and Fitness
Height5' 3"
Reach64"
StanceSouthpaw
Age45
Date of birthMay 27, 1981
Weight125 lbs.
Pro record17-8
UFC recordUFC 7-6 first fight 2011-01-22 · last fight 2015-10-03
Finish split7 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 6 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Chris Cariaso 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.

Chris Cariaso in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Flyweight155 weeks on the tables#6–10 · from the table of 4 February 2013No table on record · May 2013 – May 2013#6–10 · from the table of 21 May 2013#11–15 · from the table of 21 April 2014#6–10 · from the table of 28 April 2014#11–15 · from the table of 16 March 2015#6–10 · from the table of 13 April 2015#11–15 · from the table of 10 August 2015#6–10 · from the table of 7 September 2015#11–15 · from the table of 5 October 2015First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#7Flyweight · Feb 2013
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Feb 2016

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 Chris Cariaso’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 / min3.35
Striking accuracy43%
Strikes absorbed / min2.23
Striking defence61%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.11
Takedown accuracy39%
Takedown defence57%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Flyweight 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 Flyweight.
Striking56
Defence79
Grappling / TD46
Cardio77
Chin89
Fight IQ69

Strike zones

Strike zones

Chris Cariaso

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

HEAD57.1%ACC 33%BODY29.4%ACC 72%LEGS13.5%ACC 84%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 57% head / 29% body / 14% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
57.1% acc 33%−6.2 vs field
BODY
29.4% acc 72%+8.7 vs field
LEGS
13.5% acc 84%−2.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 68%CLINCH 22%GROUND 9%

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.

13 UFC fights · 591 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Chris Cariaso

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

1.11takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.11 landed per 15 minutes — −1.06 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS36
1.11 / 15m−1.06 vs field
ATTEMPTS23
2.85 / 15m−2.78 vs field
ACCURACY53
39%−4pp vs field
SUB ATT50
0.80 / 15m−0.43 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.00 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 Flyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 17-8. In the UFC: 7-6. Chris Cariaso’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.

Full UFC career — 13 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2015-10-03LSergio PettisDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 192: Cormier vs Gustafsson
2015-03-14LHenry CejudoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 185: Pettis vs Dos Anjos
2014-09-27LDemetrious JohnsonSubmissionR2UFC 178: Johnson vs Cariaso
2014-05-10WLouis SmolkaDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Brown vs Silva
2014-02-01WDanny MartinezDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 169: Barao vs Faber 2
2013-10-09WIliarde SantosKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Maia vs Shields
2013-05-18LJussier FormigaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold
2012-12-29LJohn MoragaSubmissionR3UFC 155: Dos Santos vs Velasquez II
2012-07-11WJosh FergusonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FUEL TV: Munoz vs Weidman
2012-02-25WTakeya MizugakiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson
2011-11-05WVaughan LeeDecision (split)R3UFC 138: Leben vs Munoz
2011-05-28LMichael McDonaldDecision (split)R3UFC 130: Rampage vs Hamill
2011-01-22WWill CampuzanoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Fight for the Troops 2

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 11 cities Chris Cariaso has fought a UFC bout in 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, 2011–2014Barueri, Sao Paulo, Brazil — 1 bout, 2013Birmingham, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2011Cincinnati, Ohio, USA — 1 bout, 2014Dallas, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2015Houston, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2015Jaragua do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil — 1 bout, 2013Killeen, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2011Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2014Saitama, Japan — 1 bout, 2012San Jose, California, USA — 1 bout, 2012Hometown: San Francisco, California

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

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