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Sean Spencer

UFC 3-5Pro 12-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 3-5 first fight 2013-01-26 · last fight 2016-09-10
Pro record12-6
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W L
DivisionWelterweight
Age39
Height5' 10"
StanceOrthodox

5' 10" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 3 UFC wins — 3 decision. Top 18% of Welterweights: avoids 60% of the strikes thrown at him and lands 4.24 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameBlack Magic
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Bluefield, Virginia
CampFortis MMA
Height5' 10"
Reach74"
StanceOrthodox
Age39
Date of birthJun 25, 1987
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record12-6
UFC recordUFC 3-5 first fight 2013-01-26 · last fight 2016-09-10
Finish split3 UFC wins — 3 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Sean Spencer’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 / min4.24
Striking accuracy32%
Strikes absorbed / min4.02
Striking defence60%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.14
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence68%
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.
Striking46
Defence58
Grappling / TD17
Cardio85
Chin43
Fight IQ50

Strike zones

Strike zones

Sean Spencer

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

HEAD75.6%ACC 28%BODY16.9%ACC 57%LEGS7.5%ACC 76%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 75.6% upstairs — +13.1 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
75.6% acc 28%+13.1 vs field
BODY
16.9% acc 57%−4.1 vs field
LEGS
7.5% acc 76%−9.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 86%CLINCH 11%GROUND 4%

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.

8 UFC fights · 456 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Sean Spencer

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

0.14takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.14 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.96 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS0
0.14 / 15m−1.96 vs field
ATTEMPTS2
0.42 / 15m−4.64 vs field
ACCURACY34
33%−13pp 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: 12-6. In the UFC: 3-5. Sean Spencer’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

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

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2016-02-06FOTNFight of the NightMike PyleUFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs Thompson

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 — 8 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2016-09-10LYancy MedeirosSubmissionR2UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem
2016-02-06LMike PyleKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs Thompson
2015-01-18LCathal PendredDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Siver
2014-09-13WPaulo ThiagoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Arlovski
2014-03-15LAlex GarciaDecision (split)R3UFC 171: Hendricks vs Lawler
2013-11-30WDrew DoberDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate Finale
2013-09-04WYuri VillefortDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs Bader
2013-01-26LRafael NatalSubmissionR3UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Dodson

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 7 cities Sean Spencer 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 — 2 bouts, 2013–2016Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil — 1 bout, 2013Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 1 bout, 2015Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil — 1 bout, 2014Chicago, Illinois, USA — 1 bout, 2013Cleveland, Ohio, USA — 1 bout, 2016Dallas, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2014Camp: Fortis MMAHometown: Bluefield, Virginia

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

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