Steve Cantwell Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	Riki Fukuda Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson	Feb 25, 2012
L	Mike Massenzio Middleweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 136: Edgar vs. Maynard 3	Oct 8, 2011
L	Cyrille Diabate Light Heavyweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Live: Sanchez vs. Kampmann	Mar 3, 2011
L	Brian Stann Light Heavyweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs. Guillard	Sep 16, 2009
L	Luiz Cane Light Heavyweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 97: Redemption	Apr 18, 2009
W	Razak Al-Hassan Light Heavyweight	Submission	Armbar From Mount Technical Submission	R1	4:04	UFC Fight Night - Fight for the Troops	Dec 10, 2008

Outside the UFC

6-1across 7 bouts · 4 promotions · wins by 3 KO · 3 subWEC · Jungle Fight 7 · RITC 78 · RITC 68

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Brian Stann12-6	KO/TKO	Punches	R2	4:01	WEC	Aug 3, 2008
W	Tim McKenzie14-9	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	2:13	WEC	Mar 26, 2008
W	Justin McElfresh6-4	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	0:47	WEC	Aug 5, 2007
L	Brian Stann12-6	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	0:41	WEC	Mar 24, 2007
W	Leonardo Pecanha15-9	KO/TKO	Doctor Stoppage	R3	2:32	Jungle Fight 7	Dec 17, 2006
W	Mike Ashford3-5	Submission	Armbar	R1	2:01	RITC 78	Jan 14, 2006
W	Richie Hightower8-4	Submission	Armbar	R1	2:45	RITC 68	Apr 23, 2005

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

Method of victory & defeat

KO / TKO

3 wins, 1 loss

W3

L1

Submission

4 wins, 0 losses

W4

L0

Decision

0 wins, 5 losses

W0

L5

Finishes

UFC KOs

0

Below avg · 15%Middleweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.00

Below avg · 0.24Middleweight

UFC submissions

1

Above avg · 8%Middleweight

Submission attempts / fight

0.50

Above avg · 0.39Middleweight

KO history

Knockout power and chin durability (UFC; clean KOs only).

Steve Cantwell

PowerChin

Knockout rate

0%

0 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

0

0.00 per 100 head

Clean KO losses

0

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

1

0.30 per 100 head

Chin gauges use a league scale: green = clean record, red = bottom ~10% of UFC fighters (4+ KO losses · 6+ knockdowns absorbed).

Never finished by strikes · Never submittedin the UFC

Decision behavior

Judging

1 scorecard on file

Steve Cantwell

Scorecard luck

Wrong end of the cards

No split or majority decisions on file — this read comes from contested rounds alone. Judges have given them 0 of 1 round they disagreed on (0%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

None on file

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

0–1

Won – Lost

0% went their way

Unanimous1 decision · 100%

1L

Split

None

Majority

None

10-8 rounds

None scoredno 10-8 rounds in this fighter’s decisions

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallC47th

34%250 / 789

Striking accuracy

55%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min-2.13 differential

Landed3.63

Absorbed5.76

68%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

-11%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head47%44th118
Body37%84th92
Leg16%61st40

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

Sig. strikes by position

84%Standing

Standing84%210
Clinch12%29
Ground4%11

Striking zones

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

UFC only

Steve Cantwell

Landed per 15

Head

D

39th

22.4

39th

Body

A+

90th

17.5

90th

Leg

B

62nd

7.6

62nd

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

F

4th

63.0

4th

Body

F

11th

15.9

11th

Leg

F

8th

14.4

8th

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	22.4	118	593	20%
Body	17.5	92	142	65%
Leg	7.6	40	54	74%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	63.0	332	864	38%
Body	15.9	84	108	78%
Leg	14.4	76	89	85%

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

Grappling

Per-15-minute breakdown of takedowns, submissions, and ground control.

UFC only

Steve Cantwell

30%

Takedown accuracy

80%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min-1.2 min net

On top0.6

On bottom1.8

Offense

Takedowns

D

40th

0.6

40th

TD accuracy

C

42nd

30%

42nd

Sub attempts

B

60th

0.6

60th

Control

D

27th

0.6 min

27th

Defense

TD defense

A

76th

80%

76th

Controlled

1.8 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	3 / 10
Submission attempts	3
Control time	3:07

Defense

TDs defended	20 / 25
Control absorbed	9:17

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (79min total). Value colors reflect the per-15 rate’s percentile against the current weight class baseline; raw totals without a division reference stay neutral.

Pace & fade

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

UFC only

Steve Cantwell

6 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 79 min

93%

R3 pace · 5 bouts

Cantwell fades (-8% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Cantwell keeps 93% of round-1 output by round 3 (5 bouts).

Cantwell ▼ FADESOutput / 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

Cantwelllanded / min

Takedown attempts

Cantwellattempts / min

Control time

Cantwell% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	3.8	3.0	4.6	0.14	10%	6
R2	4.0	3.3	6.4	0.20	1%	5
R3	3.3	3.2	7.9	0.04	0%	5

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

Steve Cantwell

6 resolved UFC bouts

Schedule Score

28/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

F

7th

14%

7th

Win quality

C

46th

39%

46th

Opponent quality distribution

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

1

3

2

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
Established	1	0-1	0%
Building	3	0-3	0%
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	Riki Fukuda	Building	15	Feb 25, 2012
L	Mike Massenzio	Unproven	8	Oct 8, 2011
L	Cyrille Diabate	Building	15	Mar 3, 2011
L	Brian Stann	Established	22	Sep 16, 2009
L	Luiz Cane	Building	18	Apr 18, 2009
W	Razak Al-Hassan	Unproven	8	Dec 10, 2008

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.

Career cohorts

6 resolved UFC bouts

Performance broken down by situation — camp length, response to the previous result, title-fight presence, and rematches. Computed across every completed UFC bout.

Camp length

Days between fights

Short turnaround

< 100 days

—

Typical camp

100–180 days

0-3

3 bouts

Long layoff

> 180 days

0-2

2 bouts

UFC debut

first UFC bout

1-0

1 bout

Post-result bounce

Performance based on the previous UFC result

After a loss

next bout after a defeat

0-4

4 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

0-1

1 bout

First UFC bout

no precedent

1-0

1 bout

Title fights

Performance with a belt on the line

All title fights

as challenger or champion

—

As champion

defending the belt

—

As challenger

fighting for the belt

—

Rematches

Performance when meeting an opponent again

All rematches

any second meeting

—

Revenge bouts

lost the first meeting

—

Encore bouts

won the first meeting

—

Activity & layoff

Last fight, activity, and divisional context.

Time since last UFC bout

14y 4mo

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Steve Cantwell

Extended layoff

14y 4mosince last bout

vs Riki Fukuda · Feb 25, 2012

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 0-3As underdog 0-2

36.2

DK avg

26.7

Median

27.7

Ceiling

19.8

Floor

17%

Boom

33%

Bust

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