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Erik Perez

UFC 7-2Pro 17-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 7-2 first fight 2012-06-01 · last fight 2016-11-05
Pro record17-6
Current streak3 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W W L W
DivisionBantamweight
Age36
Height5' 8"
StanceOrthodox

5' 8" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Bantamweight. 7 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 4 decision. Top 7% of Bantamweights: avoids 66% of the strikes thrown at him and absorbs only 2.09 significant strikes a minute.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameGoyito
NationalityMexico
Hometown (per Sherdog)Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
CampAlliance MMA
Height5' 8"
Reach68"
StanceOrthodox
Age36
Date of birthNov 19, 1989
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record17-6
UFC recordUFC 7-2 first fight 2012-06-01 · last fight 2016-11-05
Finish split7 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 4 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Erik Perez 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.

Erik Perez in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Bantamweight92 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 30 December 2013#6–10 · from the table of 10 March 2014#11–15 · from the table of 17 March 2014#6–10 · from the table of 24 March 2014#11–15 · from the table of 14 April 2014#6–10 · from the table of 28 April 2014#11–15 · from the table of 12 May 2014#11–15 · from the table of 2 January 2017First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the table
Peak#9Bantamweight · Mar 2014
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Feb 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 Erik Perez’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 / min3.16
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min2.09
Striking defence66%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.16
Takedown accuracy55%
Takedown defence69%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Bantamweight 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 Bantamweight.
Striking50
Defence88
Grappling / TD61
Cardio33
Chin78
Fight IQ62

Strike zones

Strike zones

Erik Perez

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

HEAD50.9%ACC 28%BODY35.8%ACC 71%LEGS13.3%ACC 83%
FightIQ read Body puncher 35.8% of his landed strikes go to the body — +13.9 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
50.9% acc 28%−10.7 vs field
BODY
35.8% acc 71%+13.9 vs field
LEGS
13.3% acc 83%−3.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 51%CLINCH 15%GROUND 34%

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.

9 UFC fights · 285 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Erik Perez

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

3.16takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.16 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.06 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS83
3.16 / 15m+1.06 vs field
ATTEMPTS62
5.75 / 15m+0.13 vs field
ACCURACY82
55%+14pp vs field
SUB ATT17
0.20 / 15m−0.88 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.50 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 Bantamweight

Recent form

Pro record: 17-6. In the UFC: 7-2. Erik Perez’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 — 9 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2016-11-05WFelipe ArantesDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Ferguson
2016-07-30WFrancisco RiveraDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley
2015-11-21WTaylor LapilusDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Magny vs Gastelum
2014-06-07LBryan CarawaySubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs Khabilov
2013-11-16WEdwin FigueroaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 167: St-Pierre vs Hendricks
2013-08-28LTakeya MizugakiDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann 2
2012-12-29WByron BloodworthKO/TKOR1UFC 155: Dos Santos vs Velasquez II
2012-08-11WKen StoneKO/TKOR1UFC 150: Henderson vs Edgar II
2012-06-01WJohn AlbertSubmissionR1The Ultimate Fighter: Live Finale

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 7 cities Erik Perez 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.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 3 bouts, 2012–2013Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA — 1 bout, 2014Atlanta, Georgia, USA — 1 bout, 2016Denver, Colorado, USA — 1 bout, 2012Indianapolis, Indiana, USA — 1 bout, 2013Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico — 1 bout, 2016Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico — 1 bout, 2015Camp: Alliance MMAHometown: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon

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

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