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Matt Brown

UFC 17-13Pro 26-19tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Matt Brown’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

UFC recordUFC 17-13 first fight 2008-06-21 · last fight 2023-05-13
Pro record26-19
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L W L L
DivisionWelterweight
Age45
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox power striker campaigning at Welterweight. 17 UFC wins — 13 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 2 decision. Top 12% of Welterweights: connects with 55% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Immortal
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Xenia, Ohio
CampImmortal Fight Team
Height6' 0"
Reach75"
StanceOrthodox
Age45
Date of birthJan 10, 1981
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record26-19
UFC recordUFC 17-13 first fight 2008-06-21 · last fight 2023-05-13
Finish split17 UFC wins — 13 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 2 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Matt Brown 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.

Matt Brown in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Welterweight195 weeks on the tables#6–10 · from the table of 19 August 2013#1–5 · from the table of 26 May 2014#6–10 · from the table of 5 January 2015#1–5 · from the table of 16 February 2015#6–10 · from the table of 14 December 2015No table on record · Mar 2016 – Apr 2016#6–10 · from the table of 12 April 2016#11–15 · from the table of 3 August 2016No table on record · Oct 2016 – Nov 2016#11–15 · from the table of 7 November 2016First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#5Welterweight · May 2014
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–575on the published tables, title reigns aside
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 Matt Brown’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 / min3.76
Striking accuracy55%
Strikes absorbed / min2.92
Striking defence55%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.68
Takedown accuracy46%
Takedown defence63%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.30

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight 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 Welterweight.
Striking80
Defence60
Grappling / TD61
Cardio25
Chin43
Fight IQ54

Our calls on Matt Brown’s fights

We have not called one of Matt Brown’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 1 of Matt Brown’s fights, 0 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

Matt Brown

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

HEAD60.8%ACC 47%BODY29.8%ACC 82%LEGS9.4%ACC 72%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 61% head / 30% body / 9% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
60.8% acc 47%−1.7 vs field
BODY
29.8% acc 82%+8.8 vs field
LEGS
9.4% acc 72%−7.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 56%CLINCH 27%GROUND 17%

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.

30 UFC fights · 1,039 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Matt Brown

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

1.68takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 1.68 takedowns per 15 minutes at 46% completion — −0pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS54
1.68 / 15m−0.42 vs field
ATTEMPTS43
3.65 / 15m−1.41 vs field
ACCURACY58
46%−0pp vs field
SUB ATT70
1.30 / 15m−0.03 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.27 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 Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 26-19. In the UFC: 17-13. Matt Brown’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

7 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 4 Fight of the Night, 2 Performance of the Night, 1 Knockout of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2022-03-26FOTNFight of the NightBryan BarberenaUFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus
2017-11-11POTNPerformance of the NightDiego SanchezUFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis
2014-07-26FOTNFight of the NightRobbie LawlerUFC on FOX: Lawler vs Brown
2014-05-10POTNPerformance of the NightErick SilvaUFC Fight Night: Brown vs Silva
2014-05-10FOTNFight of the NightErick SilvaUFC Fight Night: Brown vs Silva
2013-08-17KOTNKnockout of the NightMike PyleUFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Sonnen
2013-04-20FOTNFight of the NightJordan MeinUFC on FOX: Henderson vs Melendez

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 — 30 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2023-05-13WCourt McGeeKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Almeida
2022-03-26LBryan BarberenaDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus
2021-06-19WDhiego LimaKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Jung vs. Ige
2021-01-16LCarlos ConditDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Kattar
2020-05-16LMiguel BaezaKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Harris
2019-12-14WBen SaundersKO/TKOR2UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington
2017-11-11WDiego SanchezKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis
2016-12-10LDonald CerroneKO/TKOR3UFC 206: Holloway vs. Pettis
2016-07-30LJake EllenbergerKO/TKOR1UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley
2016-05-14LDemian MaiaSubmissionR3UFC 198: Werdum vs Miocic
2015-07-11WTim MeansSubmissionR1UFC 189: Mendes vs McGregor
2015-03-14LJohny HendricksDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 185: Pettis vs Dos Anjos
2014-07-26LRobbie LawlerDecision (unanimous)R5UFC on FOX: Lawler vs Brown
2014-05-10WErick SilvaKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Brown vs Silva
2013-08-17WMike PyleKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Sonnen
2013-04-20WJordan MeinKO/TKOR2UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Melendez
2012-12-08WMike SwickKO/TKOR2UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Diaz
2012-06-22WLuis RamosKO/TKOR2UFC on FX: Maynard vs Guida
2012-04-21WStephen ThompsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 145: Jones vs Evans
2012-02-04WChris CopeKO/TKOR2UFC 143: Diaz vs Condit
2011-11-19LSeth BaczynskiSubmissionR2UFC 139: Shogun vs Henderson
2011-06-26WJohn HowardDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Live: Kongo vs Barry
2010-11-20LBrian FosterSubmissionR2UFC 123: Rampage vs Machida
2010-07-03LChris LytleSubmissionR2UFC 116: Lesnar vs Carwin
2010-03-27LRicardo AlmeidaSubmissionR2UFC 111: St-Pierre vs Hardy
2009-11-14WJames WilksKO/TKOR3UFC 105: Couture vs Vera
2009-03-07WPete SellKO/TKOR1UFC 96: Jackson vs Jardine
2008-11-15WRyan ThomasSubmissionR2UFC 91: Couture vs Lesnar
2008-09-06LDong Hyun KimDecision (split)R3UFC 88: Breakthrough
2008-06-21WMatt ArroyoKO/TKOR2The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest 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 19 cities Matt Brown 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 — 7 bouts, 2008–2021Atlanta, Georgia, USA — 3 bouts, 2008–2016San Jose, California, USA — 3 bouts, 2011–2014Columbus, Ohio, USA — 2 bouts, 2009–2022Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 1 bout, 2021Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2012Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA — 1 bout, 2010Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 1 bout, 2013Charlotte, North Carolina, USA — 1 bout, 2023Cincinnati, Ohio, USA — 1 bout, 2014Curitiba, Parana, Brazil — 1 bout, 2016Dallas, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2015Jacksonville, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2020Manchester, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2009Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2010Norfolk, Virginia, USA — 1 bout, 2017Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA — 1 bout, 2011Seattle, Washington, USA — 1 bout, 2012Toronto, Ontario, Canada — 1 bout, 2016Hometown: Xenia, Ohio

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

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