Built from Nate Diaz’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler
6' 0" southpaw submission grappler campaigning at Welterweight. 16 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 10 submission, 4 decision. Top 16% of Welterweights: lands 4.57 significant strikes a minute.
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.
| Nickname | pending |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown (per Sherdog) | Stockton, California |
| Camp | Cesar Gracie Fight Team |
| Height | 6' 0" |
| Reach | 76" |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Age | 41 |
| Date of birth | Apr 16, 1985 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 22-13 |
| UFC record | UFC 16-11 first fight 2007-06-23 · last fight 2022-09-10 |
| Finish split | 16 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 10 submission, 4 decision |
| Social |
Every week Nate Diaz has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, 2 of them, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.
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 averages over Nate Diaz’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.
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.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
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.
Pro record: 22-13. In the UFC: 16-11. Nate Diaz’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.
15 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 8 Fight of the Night, 1 Performance of the Night, 1 Knockout of the Night, 5 Submission of the Night.
| Date | Award | Opponent | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-20 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Conor McGregor | UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2 |
| 2016-03-05 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Conor McGregor | UFC 196: McGregor vs Diaz |
| 2016-03-05 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Conor McGregor | UFC 196: McGregor vs Diaz |
| 2015-12-19 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Michael Johnson | UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 |
| 2013-11-30 | KOTN | Knockout of the Night | Gray Maynard | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate Finale |
| 2012-05-05 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Jim Miller | UFC on FOX: Diaz vs Miller |
| 2011-12-30 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Donald Cerrone | UFC 141: Lesnar vs Overeem |
| 2011-09-24 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Takanori Gomi | UFC 135: Jones vs Rampage |
| 2010-08-28 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Marcus Davis | UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2 |
| 2009-09-16 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Melvin Guillard | UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Guillard |
| 2009-06-20 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Joe Stevenson | The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale |
| 2009-01-31 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Clay Guida | UFC 94: St-Pierre vs Penn 2 |
| 2008-09-17 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Josh Neer | UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Neer |
| 2008-04-02 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Kurt Pellegrino | UFC Fight Night: Florian vs Lauzon |
| 2008-01-23 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Alvin Robinson | UFC Fight Night: Swick vs Burkman |
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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-10 | W | Tony Ferguson | Submission | R4 | UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson |
| 2021-06-12 | L | Leon Edwards | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 |
| 2019-11-02 | L | Jorge Masvidal | TKO (doctor) | R3 | UFC 244: Masvidal vs. Diaz |
| 2019-08-17 | W | Anthony Pettis | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2 |
| 2016-08-20 | L | Conor McGregor | Decision (majority) | R5 | UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2 |
| 2016-03-05 | W | Conor McGregor | Submission | R2 | UFC 196: McGregor vs Diaz |
| 2015-12-19 | W | Michael Johnson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 |
| 2014-12-13 | L | Rafael Dos Anjos | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Dos Santos vs Miocic |
| 2013-11-30 | W | Gray Maynard | KO/TKO | R1 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate Finale |
| 2013-04-20 | L | Josh Thomson | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Melendez |
| 2012-12-08 | L | Benson Henderson | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Diaz |
| 2012-05-05 | W | Jim Miller | Submission | R2 | UFC on FOX: Diaz vs Miller |
| 2011-12-30 | W | Donald Cerrone | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 141: Lesnar vs Overeem |
| 2011-09-24 | W | Takanori Gomi | Submission | R1 | UFC 135: Jones vs Rampage |
| 2011-04-30 | L | Rory MacDonald | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 129: St-Pierre vs Shields |
| 2011-01-01 | L | Dong Hyun Kim | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 125: Resolution |
| 2010-08-28 | W | Marcus Davis | Submission | R3 | UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2 |
| 2010-03-27 | W | Rory Markham | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 111: St-Pierre vs Hardy |
| 2010-01-11 | L | Gray Maynard | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz |
| 2009-09-16 | W | Melvin Guillard | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Guillard |
| 2009-06-20 | L | Joe Stevenson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale |
| 2009-01-31 | L | Clay Guida | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 94: St-Pierre vs Penn 2 |
| 2008-09-17 | W | Josh Neer | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Neer |
| 2008-04-02 | W | Kurt Pellegrino | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Florian vs Lauzon |
| 2008-01-23 | W | Alvin Robinson | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Swick vs Burkman |
| 2007-09-19 | W | Junior Assuncao | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Thomas vs Florian |
| 2007-06-23 | W | Manvel Gamburyan | Submission | R2 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Pulver vs. Team Penn 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.
The 17 cities Nate Diaz 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.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.