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Nick Denis

UFC 1-1Pro 11-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Nick Denis’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Volume striker

UFC recordUFC 1-1 first fight 2012-01-20 · last fight 2012-05-05
Pro record11-3
Current streak1 loss
Last 2 (UFC)L W
DivisionBantamweight
Age43
Height5' 7"
StanceOrthodox

5' 7" orthodox volume striker campaigning at Bantamweight. 1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO. Best of Bantamweights: completes 100% of his takedown attempts and lands 6.54 significant strikes a minute.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Ninja of Love
NationalityCanada
Hometown (per Sherdog)Ottawa, Ontario
CampRonin MMA
Height5' 7"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age43
Date of birthOct 11, 1983
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record11-3
UFC recordUFC 1-1 first fight 2012-01-20 · last fight 2012-05-05
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Nick Denis’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 / min6.54
Striking accuracy53%
Strikes absorbed / min5.42
Striking defence36%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.80
Takedown accuracy100%
Takedown defence80%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

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.
Striking92
Defence10
Grappling / TD88
Cardio No round past the first on our tapen/a
Chin limited sample55
Fight IQ61

Strike zones

Strike zones

Nick Denis

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

HEAD74.3%ACC 46%BODY17.1%FIELD 22%LEGS8.6%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 74.3% upstairs — +12.7 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
74.3% acc 46%+12.7 vs field
BODY
17.1%−4.8 vs field
LEGS
8.6%−7.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 43%CLINCH 48%GROUND 9%

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 sample2 UFC fights · 35 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Nick Denis

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

2.80takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 2.80 takedowns per 15 minutes at 100% completion — +59pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS75
2.80 / 15m+0.70 vs field
ATTEMPTS29
2.80 / 15m−2.81 vs field
ACCURACY100
100%+59pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.08 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: 11-3. In the UFC: 1-1. Nick Denis’s last 2 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

1 post-fight bonus since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Knockout of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2012-01-20KOTNKnockout of the NightJoseph SandovalUFC on FX: Guillard vs Miller

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 — 2 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2012-05-05LRoland DelormeSubmissionR1UFC on FOX: Diaz vs Miller
2012-01-20WJoseph SandovalKO/TKOR1UFC on FX: Guillard vs Miller

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 2 cities Nick Denis 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.

East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2012Nashville, Tennessee, USA — 1 bout, 2012Hometown: Ottawa, Ontario

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

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