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Paul Sass

UFC 3-2Pro 14-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 3-2 first fight 2010-10-16 · last fight 2013-02-16
Pro record14-2
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W W
DivisionLightweight
Age38
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 3 UFC wins — 3 submission. Top 2% of Lightweights: averages 7.4 submission attempts per 15 minutes and absorbs only 1.9 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityEngland
Hometown (per Sherdog)Liverpool
CampTeam Kaobon
Height6' 0"
Reach73"
StanceOrthodox
Age38
Date of birthAug 04, 1988
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record14-2
UFC recordUFC 3-2 first fight 2010-10-16 · last fight 2013-02-16
Finish split3 UFC wins — 3 submission
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Paul Sass’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 / min0.53
Striking accuracy26%
Strikes absorbed / min1.90
Striking defence51%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.53
Takedown accuracy16%
Takedown defence33%
Sub attempts / 15 min7.40

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight 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 Lightweight.
Striking5
Defence64
Grappling / TD39
Cardio limited sample36
Chin73
Fight IQ43

Strike zones

Strike zones

Paul Sass

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

HEAD66.6%ACC 20%BODY26.7%FIELD 21%LEGS6.7%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Ground striker 40% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
66.6% acc 20%+4.5 vs field
BODY
26.7%+5.9 vs field
LEGS
6.7%−10.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 60%CLINCH 0%GROUND 40%

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 sample5 UFC fights · 15 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Paul Sass

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

0.53takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 7.40 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +6.09 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS11
0.53 / 15m−1.69 vs field
ATTEMPTS33
3.31 / 15m−2.24 vs field
ACCURACY8
16%−27pp vs field
SUB ATT98
7.40 / 15m+6.09 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.19 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 Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 14-2. In the UFC: 3-2. Paul Sass’s last 5 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 — 2 Submission of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2012-05-26SOTNSubmission of the NightJacob VolkmannUFC 146: Dos Santos vs Mir
2010-10-16SOTNSubmission of the NightMark HolstUFC 120: Bisping vs Akiyama

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 — 5 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2013-02-16LDanny CastilloDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FUEL TV: Barao vs McDonald
2012-09-29LMatt WimanSubmissionR1UFC on FUEL TV: Struve vs Miocic
2012-05-26WJacob VolkmannSubmissionR1UFC 146: Dos Santos vs Mir
2011-10-01WMichael JohnsonSubmissionR1UFC Live: Cruz vs Johnson
2010-10-16WMark HolstSubmissionR1UFC 120: Bisping vs Akiyama

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 4 cities Paul Sass 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.

London, England, United Kingdom — 2 bouts, 2010–2013Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2012Nottingham, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2012Washington, DC, USA — 1 bout, 2011Hometown: Liverpool

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

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