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Mike Pyle

UFC 10-9Pro 27-14-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Mike Pyle’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher

UFC recordUFC 10-9 first fight 2009-05-23 · last fight 2018-03-03
Pro record27-14-1
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W L
DivisionWelterweight
Age51
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Welterweight. 10 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 3 decision. Top 18% of Welterweights: avoids 60% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameQuicksand
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Las Vegas, Nevada
CampSyndicate MMA
Height6' 0"
Reach74"
StanceOrthodox
Age51
Date of birthSep 18, 1975
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record27-14-1
UFC recordUFC 10-9 first fight 2009-05-23 · last fight 2018-03-03
Finish split10 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 3 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Mike Pyle 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.

Mike Pyle in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Welterweight37 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 17 January 2014Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the table
Peak#12Welterweight · Mar 2014
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Oct 2014

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 Mike Pyle’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 / min2.74
Striking accuracy45%
Strikes absorbed / min2.84
Striking defence60%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.80
Takedown accuracy35%
Takedown defence70%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.50

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.
Striking52
Defence70
Grappling / TD57
Cardio69
Chin6
Fight IQ51

Strike zones

Strike zones

Mike Pyle

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

HEAD67.6%ACC 36%BODY16.2%ACC 69%LEGS16.2%ACC 82%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 68% head / 16% body / 16% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
67.6% acc 36%+5.1 vs field
BODY
16.2% acc 69%−4.8 vs field
LEGS
16.2% acc 82%−0.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 59%CLINCH 20%GROUND 21%

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.

19 UFC fights · 383 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Mike Pyle

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

1.80takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 1.50 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +0.17 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS56
1.80 / 15m−0.30 vs field
ATTEMPTS57
5.14 / 15m+0.08 vs field
ACCURACY39
35%−11pp vs field
SUB ATT75
1.50 / 15m+0.17 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: 27-14-1. In the UFC: 10-9. Mike Pyle’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 — 1 Fight of the Night, 1 Knockout of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2016-02-06FOTNFight of the NightSean SpencerUFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs Thompson
2012-06-08KOTNKnockout of the NightJosh NeerUFC on FX: Johnson vs McCall

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 — 19 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2018-03-03LZak OttowKO/TKOR1UFC 222: Cyborg vs. Kunitskaya
2016-12-30LAlex GarciaKO/TKOR1UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey
2016-07-07LAlberto MinaKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Alvarez
2016-02-06WSean SpencerKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs Thompson
2015-05-23LColby CovingtonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier
2014-08-23LJordan MeinKO/TKOR1—
2014-02-22WTJ WaldburgerKO/TKOR3UFC 170: Rousey vs McMann
2013-08-17LMatt BrownKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Sonnen
2013-05-25WRick StoryDecision (split)R3UFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2
2012-12-15WJames HeadKO/TKOR1The Ultimate Fighter: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson Finale
2012-06-08WJosh NeerKO/TKOR1UFC on FX: Johnson vs McCall
2012-01-14WRicardo FunchKO/TKOR1UFC 142: Aldo vs Mendes
2011-08-06LRory MacDonaldKO/TKOR1UFC 133: Evans vs Ortiz 2
2011-03-19WRicardo AlmeidaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 128: Shogun vs Jones
2010-10-16WJohn HathawayDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 120: Bisping vs Akiyama
2010-06-12WJesse LennoxSubmissionR3UFC 115: Liddell vs Franklin
2010-01-02LJake EllenbergerKO/TKOR2UFC 108: Evans vs Silva
2009-09-16WChris WilsonSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Guillard
2009-05-23LBrock LarsonSubmissionR1UFC 98: Evans vs Machida

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 9 cities Mike Pyle 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 — 10 bouts, 2009–2018Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 1 bout, 2013London, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2010Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2011Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA — 1 bout, 2009Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — 1 bout, 2011Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 1 bout, 2012Sunrise, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2012Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — 1 bout, 2010Camp: Syndicate MMAHometown: Las Vegas, Nevada

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

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