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Steven Nguyen

UFC 1-1Pro 10-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Steven Nguyen’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Volume boxer

UFC recordUFC 1-1 first fight 2024-03-23 · last fight 2025-07-26
Pro record10-2
Current streak1 win
Last 2 (UFC)W L
DivisionFeatherweight
Age33
Height5' 11"
StanceSwitch

5' 11" switch volume boxer campaigning at Featherweight. 1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO. Best of Featherweights: completes 100% of his takedown attempts and lands 7.47 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Dallas, Texas
CampFortis MMA
Height5' 11"
Reach73"
StanceSwitch
Age33
Date of birthMay 19, 1993
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record10-2
UFC recordUFC 1-1 first fight 2024-03-23 · last fight 2025-07-26
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Steven Nguyen’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 / min7.47
Striking accuracy42%
Strikes absorbed / min7.10
Striking defence60%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.24
Takedown accuracy100%
Takedown defence88%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Featherweight 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 Featherweight.
Striking72
Defence42
Grappling / TD51
Cardio limited sample67
Chin limited sample46
Fight IQ56

Our calls on Steven Nguyen’s fights

We have not called one of Steven Nguyen’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 2 of Steven Nguyen’s fights, 1 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Steven Nguyen

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

HEAD79.4%ACC 36%BODY7.7%ACC 60%LEGS12.9%ACC 54%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 79.4% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +16.3 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
79.4% acc 36%+16.3 vs field
BODY
7.7% acc 60%−12.5 vs field
LEGS
12.9% acc 54%−3.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 70%CLINCH 5%GROUND 24%

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 · 155 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Steven Nguyen

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

0.24takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.24 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.34 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS2
0.24 / 15m−2.34 vs field
ATTEMPTS0
0.24 / 15m−5.86 vs field
ACCURACY100
100%+57pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.27 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.09 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 Featherweight

Recent form

Pro record: 10-2. In the UFC: 1-1. Steven Nguyen’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 Fight of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2024-03-23FOTNFight of the NightJarno ErrensUFC Fight Night: Ribas vs. Namajunas

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
2025-07-26WMohammad YahyaKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. De Ridder
2024-03-23LJarno ErrensDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Ribas vs. Namajunas

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 Steven Nguyen 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.

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 1 bout, 2025Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2024Camp: Fortis MMAHometown: Dallas, Texas

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

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