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Erik Silva

UFC 0-3Pro 9-4tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 0-3 first fight 2022-12-10 · last fight 2026-02-28
Pro record9-4
Current streak3 losses
Last 3 (UFC)L L L
DivisionFeatherweight
Age39
Height5' 9"
StanceOrthodox

5' 9" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Featherweight. Top 2% of Featherweights: connects with 67% of his significant strikes and completes 80% of his takedown attempts.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 King
NationalityVenezuela
Hometown (per Sherdog)Caracas, Capital District
CampAntonio Silva Martial Arts
Height5' 9"
Reach71"
StanceOrthodox
Age39
Date of birthMar 16, 1987
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record9-4
UFC recordUFC 0-3 first fight 2022-12-10 · last fight 2026-02-28
Finish splitpending
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Erik Silva’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 / min2.06
Striking accuracy67%
Strikes absorbed / min1.52
Striking defence40%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.26
Takedown accuracy80%
Takedown defence60%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Featherweight 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 Featherweight.
Striking64
Defence52
Grappling / TD85
Cardio limited sample9
Chin limited sample40
Fight IQ50

Our calls on Erik Silva’s fights

Every fight of Erik Silva’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 Erik Silva’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
2026-02-28Francis MarshallFrancis Marshall (against Silva)75.3%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 1 of Erik Silva’s fights, 1 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Erik Silva

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

HEAD53.9%ACC 56%BODY26.9%FIELD 20%LEGS19.2%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 54% head / 27% body / 19% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
53.9% acc 56%−9.2 vs field
BODY
26.9%+6.7 vs field
LEGS
19.2%+2.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 69%CLINCH 27%GROUND 4%

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 sample3 UFC fights · 26 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Erik Silva

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

3.26takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.26 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +0.68 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS77
3.26 / 15m+0.68 vs field
ATTEMPTS39
4.07 / 15m−2.03 vs field
ACCURACY93
80%+37pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.27 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.09 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 Featherweight

Recent form

Pro record: 9-4. In the UFC: 0-3. Erik Silva’s last 3 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 — 3 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-02-28LFrancis MarshallSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Kavanagh
2024-02-24LMuhammad NaimovKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2
2022-12-10LTJ BrownSubmissionR3UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev

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

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

DateOpponentWeight / limitDivisionSource
2026-02-28Francis Marshall146 / 146MADEFeatherweightUFC.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 2 cities Erik Silva 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.

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico — 2 bouts, 2024–2026Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2022Hometown: Caracas, Capital District

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

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