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Paul Daley

UFC 2-1Pro 39-15-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Paul Daley’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

UFC recordUFC 2-1 first fight 2009-09-19 · last fight 2010-05-08
Pro record39-15-2
Current streak1 loss
Last 3 (UFC)L W W
DivisionWelterweight
Age43
Height5' 9"
StanceOrthodox

5' 9" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 2 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO. 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameSemtex
NationalityEngland
Hometown (per Sherdog)Nottingham
CampSpirit Dojo
Height5' 9"
Reach76"
StanceOrthodox
Age43
Date of birthFeb 21, 1983
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record39-15-2
UFC recordUFC 2-1 first fight 2009-09-19 · last fight 2010-05-08
Finish split2 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO

Career rates facts

Career averages over Paul Daley’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 / min3.14
Striking accuracy47%
Strikes absorbed / min2.37
Striking defence60%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.91
Takedown accuracy40%
Takedown defence64%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

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.
Striking60
Defence78
Grappling / TD37
Cardio limited sample21
Chin limited sample69
Fight IQ53

Strike zones

Strike zones

Paul Daley

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

HEAD84.8%ACC 40%BODY6.5%FIELD 21%LEGS8.7%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 84.8% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +22.3 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
84.8% acc 40%+22.3 vs field
BODY
6.5%−14.5 vs field
LEGS
8.7%−7.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 67%CLINCH 20%GROUND 13%

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 sample3 UFC fights · 46 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Paul Daley

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

0.91takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.91 landed per 15 minutes — −1.19 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS26
0.91 / 15m−1.19 vs field
ATTEMPTS27
2.27 / 15m−2.79 vs field
ACCURACY48
40%−6pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.33 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: 39-15-2. In the UFC: 2-1. Paul Daley’s last 3 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
2010-01-02KOTNKnockout of the NightDustin HazelettUFC 108: Evans vs Silva

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 — 3 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2010-05-08LJosh KoscheckDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 113: Machida vs Shogun 2
2010-01-02WDustin HazelettKO/TKOR1UFC 108: Evans vs Silva
2009-09-19WMartin KampmannKO/TKOR1UFC 103: Franklin vs Belfort

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 3 cities Paul Daley 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.

Dallas, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2009Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2010Montreal, Quebec, Canada — 1 bout, 2010Hometown: Nottingham

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

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