Scott Holtzman

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Scott Holtzman

Nickname“Hot Sauce”

Record

14-6

Streak

L3

Age

42

Date of birth

Sep 30, 1983

Fighting out of: Knoxville
Born: United States
Camps: MMA Lab·Shield Systems
Weight class: Lightweight
Height: 5'9" · 175 cm
Reach: 69" · 175 cm
Stance: Orthodox
Last fight: Dec 3, 2022
Cut risk: 65%

UFC fight history

ResultOpponentMethodDetailEvent

Clay Guida

Lightweight · Decision · Split · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland · Dec 3, 2022

UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland

Mateusz Gamrot

Lightweight · KO/TKO · Punches to Head On Ground · R2 · 1:22

UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Holland · Apr 10, 2021

Punches to Head On Ground

UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Holland

Beneil Dariush

#14Beneil Dariush

Lightweight · KO/TKO · Spinning Back Fist Head · R1 · 4:38

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik · Aug 8, 2020

Spinning Back Fist Head

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik

Jim Miller

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Anderson vs. Blachowicz · Feb 15, 2020

UFC Fight Night: Anderson vs. Blachowicz

Dong Hyun Ma

Lightweight · KO/TKO · R2 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Lawler · Aug 3, 2019

UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Lawler

Nik Lentz

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Velasquez · Feb 17, 2019

UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Velasquez

Alan Patrick

Lightweight · KO/TKO · Elbows to Head From Mount · R3 · 3:42

UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor · Oct 6, 2018

Elbows to Head From Mount

UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor

Darrell Horcher

Darrell Horcher

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega · Dec 9, 2017

UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega

Michael McBride

Michael McBride

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov · Apr 22, 2017

UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov

Josh Emmett

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC on FOX: VanZant vs. Waterson · Dec 17, 2016

UFC on FOX: VanZant vs. Waterson

Cody Pfister

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: McDonald vs. Lineker · Jul 13, 2016

UFC Fight Night: McDonald vs. Lineker

Drew Dober

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC 195: Lawler vs. Condit · Jan 2, 2016

UFC 195: Lawler vs. Condit

Anthony Christodoulou

Anthony Christodoulou

Lightweight · Submission · Rear Naked Choke · R3 · 2:40

UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs. Saint Preux · Aug 8, 2015

Rear Naked Choke

UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs. Saint Preux

Outside the UFC

7-0across 7 bouts · 7 promotions · wins by 3 KO · 1 sub · 3 decPFC · XFC 26 · XFC 24 · XFC 22 · XFC 20 +2

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	George Sheppard15-18	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	PFC	Apr 5, 2014
W	Roger Carroll18-19	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	XFC 26	Oct 18, 2013
W	John Mahlow14-14	KO/TKO	Punches	R2	2:53	XFC 24	Jun 14, 2013
W	Jason Hicks5-3	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	XFC 22	Feb 22, 2013
W	Chris Coggins7-11	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	4:46	XFC 20	Sep 28, 2012
W	Matt Metts4-3	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	4:13	XFC 18	Jun 22, 2012
W	Brandon Demastes0-2	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R2	1:44	XFC 16	Feb 10, 2012

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

Amateur

4-0across 4 amateur bouts · 2 promotionsFFFC · Imperial Fighting

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Charlie Alexander9-4	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	2:23	Imperial Fighting	Jun 25, 2011
W	Itai Tirado0-1	Submission	Triangle Choke	R2	2:22	FFFC	Apr 29, 2011
W	Tyler Wilson1-1	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R2	1:27	FFFC	Jan 8, 2011
W	Preston Johnson0-1	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	1:03	FFFC	Jan 30, 2010

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

Career striking

OverallC57th

47%723 / 1,511

Striking accuracy

55%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min+0.66 differential

Landed4.32

Absorbed3.66

61%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

+2%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head73%84th528
Body16%58th117
Leg11%53rd78

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

Sig. strikes by position

64%Standing

Standing64%461
Clinch16%115
Ground20%147

Striking zones

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

UFC only

Scott Holtzman

Scott Holtzman

Landed per 15

Head

A+

88th

47.3

88th

Body

B

59th

10.5

59th

Leg

C

50th

7.0

50th

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

C

44th

34.2

44th

Body

D

31st

12.3

31st

Leg

C

42nd

8.3

42nd

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	47.3	528	1,223	43%
Body	10.5	117	183	64%
Leg	7.0	78	105	74%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	34.2	382	1,079	35%
Body	12.3	137	181	76%
Leg	8.3	93	101	92%

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

Scott Holtzman

Scott Holtzman

13 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 167 min

134%

R3 pace · 10 bouts

Holtzman builds (+19% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Holtzman lifts to 134% of round-1 output by round 3 (10 bouts).

Scott Holtzman

Holtzman ▲ 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

Scott Holtzman

Holtzmanlanded / min

Takedown attempts

Scott Holtzman

Holtzmanattempts / min

Control time

Scott Holtzman

Holtzman% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	4.9	3.5	3.8	0.19	22%	13
R2	6.8	4.4	3.3	0.28	39%	12
R3	7.3	5.4	3.9	0.19	32%	10

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

Scott Holtzman

Scott Holtzman

13 resolved UFC bouts · 2 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

41/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

B

68th

41%

68th

Win quality

C

43rd

38%

43rd

Opponent quality distribution

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

3

1

3

1

5

Top-5Ranked #1–#5 at the time
Ranked 6–15Ranked #6–#15 at the time
Cross-div rankedRanked #1–#15 in another division at the time
Established5+ UFC wins entering the bout, ≥.500
UnprovenFewer than 3 fights, or sub-.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Top-5	3	1-2	33%
Ranked 6–15	1	0-1	0%
Cross-div ranked	3	0-3	0%
Established	1	1-0	100%
Unproven	5	5-0	100%

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	Clay Guida	Cross-div ranked	45	Dec 3, 2022
L	Mateusz Gamrot	Top-5	54	Apr 10, 2021
L	Beneil Dariush#14	Top-5	76	Aug 8, 2020
W	Jim Miller#14	Top-5	74	Feb 15, 2020
W	Dong Hyun Ma	Unproven	12	Aug 3, 2019
L	Nik Lentz	Cross-div ranked	45	Feb 17, 2019
W	Alan Patrick	Established	30	Oct 6, 2018
W	Darrell Horcher	Unproven	8	Dec 9, 2017
W	Michael McBride	Unproven	8	Apr 22, 2017
L	Josh Emmett	Cross-div ranked	32	Dec 17, 2016
W	Cody Pfister	Unproven	8	Jul 13, 2016
L	Drew Dober	Ranked 6–15	44	Jan 2, 2016
W	Anthony Christodoulou	Unproven	8	Aug 8, 2015

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.