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Luke Sanders

UFC 3-5Pro 13-5tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Luke Sanders’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Volume boxer

UFC recordUFC 3-5 first fight 2016-01-17 · last fight 2021-05-01
Pro record13-5
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L W
DivisionBantamweight
Age40
Height5' 6"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 6" southpaw volume boxer campaigning at Bantamweight. 3 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 1 decision. Top 3% of Bantamweights: lands 6.61 significant strikes a minute and connects with 52% of his significant strikes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameCool Hand
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Clarksville, Tennessee
Camppending
Height5' 6"
Reach67"
StanceSouthpaw
Age40
Date of birthDec 12, 1985
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record13-5
UFC recordUFC 3-5 first fight 2016-01-17 · last fight 2021-05-01
Finish split3 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 1 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Luke Sanders’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 / min6.61
Striking accuracy52%
Strikes absorbed / min4.37
Striking defence50%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.71
Takedown accuracy30%
Takedown defence72%
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.
Striking90
Defence33
Grappling / TD22
Cardio55
Chin35
Fight IQ47

Strike zones

Strike zones

Luke Sanders

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

HEAD80.5%ACC 49%BODY12.3%ACC 76%LEGS7.2%ACC 77%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 80.5% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +18.9 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
80.5% acc 49%+18.9 vs field
BODY
12.3% acc 76%−9.6 vs field
LEGS
7.2% acc 77%−9.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 68%CLINCH 10%GROUND 22%

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.

8 UFC fights · 416 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Luke Sanders

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

0.71takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.71 takedowns and 0.20 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS17
0.71 / 15m−1.39 vs field
ATTEMPTS22
2.37 / 15m−3.25 vs field
ACCURACY31
30%−11pp 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: 13-5. In the UFC: 3-5. Luke Sanders’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.

Post-fight bonuses

2 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 2 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2019-02-17POTNPerformance of the NightRenan BaraoUFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Velasquez
2016-01-17POTNPerformance of the NightMaximo BlancoUFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs Cruz

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 — 8 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2021-05-01LFelipe ColaresDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Prochazka
2020-11-28LNate ManessSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Clark
2019-02-17WRenan BaraoKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Velasquez
2018-08-25LRani YahyaSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Gaethje vs. Vick
2018-04-14WPatrick WilliamsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Gaethje
2017-12-09LAndre SoukhamthathKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega
2017-03-04LIuri AlcantaraSubmissionR2UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2
2016-01-17WMaximo BlancoSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs Cruz

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 6 cities Luke Sanders 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, 2017–2021Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 1 bout, 2016Fresno, California, USA — 1 bout, 2017Glendale, Arizona, USA — 1 bout, 2018Lincoln, Nebraska, USA — 1 bout, 2018Phoenix, Arizona, USA — 1 bout, 2019Hometown: Clarksville, Tennessee

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

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