Kyle Nelson

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Kyle Nelson

Nickname“The Monster”

Record

17-7-1

Streak

L1

Age

35

Date of birth

Apr 20, 1991

Fighting out of: Huntsville
Born: Canada
Camp: House of Champions MMA
Weight class: Lightweight
Height: 5'11" · 180 cm
Reach: 71" · 180 cm
Stance: Switch
Last fight: Mar 28, 2026

UFC fight history

ResultOpponentMethodDetailEvent

Terrance McKinney

Terrance McKinney

Lightweight · KO/TKO · Punches to Head From Half Guard · R1 · 0:24

UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Pyfer · Mar 28, 2026

Punches to Head From Half Guard

UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Pyfer

Matt Frevola

#14Matt Frevola

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: De Ridder vs. Allen · Oct 18, 2025

UFC Fight Night: De Ridder vs. Allen

Steve Garcia

Featherweight · KO/TKO · Elbows to Head From Half Guard · R1 · 3:59

UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Brady · Sep 7, 2024

Elbows to Head From Half Guard

UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Brady

Bill Algeo

Featherweight · KO/TKO · Punches to Head At Distance · R1 · 4:00

UFC Fight Night: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot · Mar 30, 2024

Punches to Head At Distance

UFC Fight Night: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot

Fernando Padilla

Fernando Padilla

Featherweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Shevchenko 2 · Sep 16, 2023

UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Shevchenko 2

Blake Bilder

Featherweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana · Jun 10, 2023

UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana

Dooho Choi

Featherweight · Draw · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Spivac · Feb 4, 2023

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Spivac

Jai Herbert

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Aspinall · Jul 23, 2022

UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Aspinall

Billy Quarantillo

Billy Quarantillo

Featherweight · KO/TKO · Punch to Head At Distance · R3 · 0:07

UFC Fight Night: Waterson vs. Hill · Sep 12, 2020

Punch to Head At Distance

UFC Fight Night: Waterson vs. Hill

Marco Polo Reyes

Marco Polo Reyes

Featherweight · KO/TKO · Punch to Head At Distance · R1 · 1:36

UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Stephens · Sep 21, 2019

Punch to Head At Distance

UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Stephens

Matt Sayles

Featherweight · Submission · Arm Triangle From Mount · R3 · 3:16

UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cowboy · May 4, 2019

Arm Triangle From Mount

UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cowboy

Diego Ferreira

Lightweight · KO/TKO · Punches to Head From Mount · R2 · 1:23

UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega · Dec 8, 2018

Punches to Head From Mount

UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega

Outside the UFC

12-1across 13 bouts · 13 promotions · wins by 4 KO · 4 sub · 4 decRXF MMA 32 · BTC 1 · RXF 26 · Z Promotions · RXF 23 +8

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Morteza Rezaei8-3	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	4:57	RXF MMA 32	Nov 19, 2018
W	Khama Worthy20-12	KO/TKO	Punch	R1	1:03	BTC 1	May 27, 2017
W	Gabriel Manuca4-1	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	3:50	RXF 26	Apr 25, 2017
W	Jonathan Brookins16-11	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	Z Promotions	Oct 28, 2016
W	Zoltan Turai3-7	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R3	1:23	RXF 23	Jun 6, 2016
W	Justin Bourgeois7-9	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	2:01	Elite 1	Apr 23, 2016
L	Adrian Hadribeaj12-2	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	Triple X Cagefighting	Sep 12, 2015
W	Ainsley Robinson5-3	Submission	Guillotine Choke	R1	0:42	SCC 2	May 30, 2014
W	Alexander Halkias4-2	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	PFC 2	Mar 8, 2014
W	Neelan Hordatt-Reece4-1	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	SCC 1	Jun 29, 2013
W	Maxime Dubois5-3	KO/TKO	Punches	R2	1:36	UGC 32	May 10, 2013
W	Jo Petahtegoose3-5	Submission	Armbar	R1	2:54	SFS 6	Oct 19, 2012
W	Michael Dufort17-6	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Ringside MMA 13	Mar 17, 2012

Non-UFC bouts (regional/other promotions) — shown for context only, excluded from Schedule Score, striking/grappling rates, and every UFC-scoped metric.

Amateur

1-0across 1 amateur bout · 1 promotionPFC

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Travis Peterson2-1	Submission	Guillotine Choke	R3	0:59	PFC	May 28, 2011

Amateur (pre-professional) bouts — shown for context only and excluded from the professional record and every UFC-scoped metric.

Career striking

OverallC47th

45%413 / 902

Striking accuracy

53%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min-0.98 differential

Landed3.60

Absorbed4.58

60%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

-2%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head56%54th231
Body26%70th108
Leg18%66th74

Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share of strikes

Sig. strikes by position

84%Standing

Standing84%346
Clinch13%54
Ground3%13

Striking zones

Per-15-minute breakdown — where this fighter lands, and where they get hit.

UFC only

Kyle Nelson

Kyle Nelson

Landed per 15

Head

C

54th

30.2

54th

Body

A

74th

14.1

74th

Leg

B

70th

9.7

70th

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Absorbed per 15

Head

D

33rd

39.2

33rd

Body

F

16th

16.3

16th

Leg

F

17th

13.1

17th

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Career totals — landed / attempted

Landed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	30.2	231	667	35%
Body	14.1	108	150	72%
Leg	9.7	74	85	87%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	39.2	300	862	35%
Body	16.3	125	157	80%
Leg	13.1	100	118	85%

UFCStats career rates, per 15 minutes. Percentiles vs the division; absorbed is inverted so higher is better.

Pace & fade

Round-by-round work rate, and whether they fade.

UFC only

Kyle Nelson

Kyle Nelson

12 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 115 min

128%

R3 pace · 7 bouts

Nelson builds (+9% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Nelson lifts to 128% of round-1 output by round 3 (7 bouts).

Kyle Nelson

Nelson ▲ BUILDSOutput / min

Rounds backed by fewer than 2 bouts are drawn smaller and dimmed with an n= count — a deep round seen in one or two fights is a thin sample, not a settled rate. Per-round bout counts are in the breakdown below.

Full per-round breakdown

What drives the pace · per round

The composite output line above blends these three inputs — splitting them out shows whether the work rate is built on striking volume, takedown pressure, or top control, and which input fades.

Sig. strikes landed

Kyle Nelson

Nelsonlanded / min

Takedown attempts

Kyle Nelson

Nelsonattempts / min

Control time

Kyle Nelson

Nelson% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	5.2	3.8	5.4	0.16	21%	12
R2	5.2	4.0	4.6	0.25	13%	8
R3	6.2	2.7	3.1	0.78	30%	7

Output / minis the headline work rate — significant strikes landed, plus 3 per takedown attempt, plus one per 15 seconds of control — so a takedown-and-grind round isn’t scored as idle the way bare striking volume would. The remaining columns are its components. Per-round rates use UFCStats per-round data (available for ~95% of bouts since 2008). Each round’s rates are averaged only over bouts that reached that round, so the bout count shrinks as rounds deepen. The final round of a finished fight is pro-rated by its actual length.

Schedule Score

Opponent quality, ranked across the UFC. Recent fights weighted heavier.

UFC only

Kyle Nelson

Kyle Nelson

12 resolved UFC bouts · 2 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

40/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

B

61st

37%

61st

Win quality

B

64th

44%

64th

Opponent quality distribution

Every UFC bout, grouped by who the opponent was at the time.

4

1

2

3

2

Ranked 6–15Ranked #6–#15 at the time
Contender-level8+ UFC wins entering the bout, ≥.55 win rate
Established5+ UFC wins entering the bout, ≥.500
Building3+ UFC fights, ≥.40 win rate
UnprovenFewer than 3 fights, or sub-.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Ranked 6–15	4	1-2-1	33%
Contender-level	1	0-1	0%
Established	2	1-1	50%
Building	3	2-1	67%
Unproven	2	1-1	50%

Highest-quality opponents

Toughest opponents on the scheduleScore, scored at the time of the fight.

All bouts — opponent quality bout-by-bout

Res	Opponent	Tier	Score	Date
L	Terrance McKinney	Contender-level	40	Mar 28, 2026
W	Matt Frevola#14	Ranked 6–15	62	Oct 18, 2025
L	Steve Garcia	Ranked 6–15	57	Sep 7, 2024
W	Bill Algeo	Established	30	Mar 30, 2024
W	Fernando Padilla	Building	15	Sep 16, 2023
W	Blake Bilder	Unproven	8	Jun 10, 2023
D	Dooho Choi#14	Ranked 6–15	65	Feb 4, 2023
L	Jai Herbert	Building	15	Jul 23, 2022
L	Billy Quarantillo	Established	22	Sep 12, 2020
W	Marco Polo Reyes	Building	18	Sep 21, 2019
L	Matt Sayles	Unproven	8	May 4, 2019
L	Diego Ferreira	Ranked 6–15	53	Dec 8, 2018

Per-bout quality scoring: champion = 100; same-division ranks 1–5 = 90 → 78 linear; ranks 6–15 = 75 → 60 linear; cross-division champion = 78; cross-division ranked = 45; title-fight challenger (no rank signal) = 50, bumped to 65 when opp had an elite career UFC record at the time. Unranked opponents are scored on UFC record-at-time (long-tenured vet 60, contender-level 45, established 30, building 18, unproven 8). P4P top-10 at time adds +5; top-3 adds +8 (capped at 100). The Schedule Score combines schedule strength (65%) and quality wins (35%), then is held toward a rookie baseline for fighters with limited UFC experience so a thin résumé reads honestly low.