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Daniel Kelly

UFC 6-4Pro 13-4tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 6-4 first fight 2014-11-07 · last fight 2018-05-27
Pro record13-4
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W W
DivisionMiddleweight
Age48
Height6' 0"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 0" southpaw decision fighter campaigning at Middleweight. 6 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 4 decision. Top 12% of Middleweights: avoids 61% of the strikes thrown at 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityAustralia
Hometown (per Sherdog)Melbourne, Victoria
CampResilience Training Centre
Height6' 0"
Reach70"
StanceSouthpaw
Age48
Date of birthOct 31, 1977
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record13-4
UFC recordUFC 6-4 first fight 2014-11-07 · last fight 2018-05-27
Finish split6 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 4 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Daniel Kelly 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.

Daniel Kelly in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Middleweight12 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 22 March 2017Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the table
Peak#14Middleweight · Apr 2017
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Jun 2017

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 Daniel Kelly’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 / min3.62
Striking accuracy38%
Strikes absorbed / min4.64
Striking defence61%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.86
Takedown accuracy34%
Takedown defence78%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.30

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking50
Defence54
Grappling / TD34
Cardio94
Chin28
Fight IQ52

Strike zones

Strike zones

Daniel Kelly

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

HEAD86.6%ACC 36%BODY6.0%ACC 66%LEGS7.4%ACC 90%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 86.6% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +23.1 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
86.6% acc 36%+23.1 vs field
BODY
6.0% acc 66%−14.5 vs field
LEGS
7.4% acc 90%−8.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 69%CLINCH 15%GROUND 16%

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.

10 UFC fights · 350 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Daniel Kelly

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

1.86takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.86 landed per 15 minutes — −0.42 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS54
1.86 / 15m−0.42 vs field
ATTEMPTS63
5.47 / 15m+0.14 vs field
ACCURACY33
34%−13pp vs field
SUB ATT16
0.30 / 15m−1.25 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 13-4. In the UFC: 6-4. Daniel Kelly’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 — 10 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2018-05-27LTom BreeseKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Till
2017-11-18LElias TheodorouDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura
2017-06-10LDerek BrunsonKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Hunt
2017-03-04WRashad EvansDecision (split)R3UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2
2016-11-26WChris CamozziDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Brunson
2016-03-19WAntonio Carlos JuniorKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs Mir
2015-11-14WSteve MontgomeryDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 193: Rousey vs Holm
2015-05-09LSam AlveyKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Miocic vs Hunt
2015-02-14WPatrick WalshDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs Thatch
2014-11-07WLuke ZachrichSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs Bisping

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 8 cities Daniel Kelly 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.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia — 2 bouts, 2015–2016Sydney, New South Wales, Australia — 2 bouts, 2014–2017Adelaide, South Australia, Australia — 1 bout, 2015Auckland, New Zealand — 1 bout, 2017Brisbane, Queensland, Australia — 1 bout, 2016Broomfield, Colorado, USA — 1 bout, 2015Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2017Liverpool, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2018Hometown: Melbourne, Victoria

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

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