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Jake Matthews
“The Celtic Kid”
Welterweight
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23WINS
8LOSSES
0DRAWS
6KO/TKO
8SUB
9DEC
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Main card Sat, Nov 21 · 1:00 PM ET · Welterweight · ABHA Arena, Doha, Qatar
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Tale of the tape
- Age
- 32 · born Aug 19, 1994 UFC.com
- Height
- 5′11.5″ 182 cm UFC.com
- Reach
- 73″ 185 cm UFC.com
- Leg reach
- 43″ 109 cm UFC.com
- Stance
- Orthodox UFCStats
- Weight class
- Welterweight UFC.com
- Fighting style
- Freestyle UFC.com
- Team / gym
- XLR8 Traning Centre, Epping, Victoria, Australia UFC.com
- Born
- Preston, Australia UFC.com
- Fights out of / flag
- Australia UFC.com
- UFC debut
- Jun. 28, 2014 UFC.com
- 1st-round finishes
- 4 UFC.com
UFC.com: UFC.com athlete profile (official) · checked 2026-10-22 · UFCStats: UFCStats.com fighter page (data via the public ufcstats.com mirror, snapshot 2026-10-18)
UFC career stats
44%Striking accuracy925 of 2079 landed
28%Takedown accuracy17⚑ of 60 landed
3.36Sig. strikes landedper min
2.58Sig. strikes absorbedper min
61%Striking defense
1.36Takedownsper 15 min
67%Takedown defense
0.71Submission attemptsper 15 min
0.33Knockdownsper 15 min
11:29Average fight time
⚑ = UFC.com and UFCStats disagree on this number. We show the official UFC.com figure and have flagged it for review.
Source: UFC.com athlete profile (official) (UFC stats are for UFC bouts only) · checked 2026-10-22
UFC fight history 24 bouts
| Res | Opponent | Method | Rd | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Carlston Harris | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | May 30, 2026 | ↗ |
| L | Neil Magny | Submission | 3 | Sep 27, 2025 | ↗ |
| W | Chidi Njokuani | Submission | 1 | Jul 12, 2025 | ↗ |
| W | Francisco Prado | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Feb 8, 2025 | ↗ |
| W | Phil Rowe | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Jun 1, 2024 | ↗ |
| L | Michael Morales | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Nov 18, 2023 | ↗ |
| W | Darrius Flowers | Submission | 2 | Jul 29, 2023 | ↗ |
| L | Matthew Semelsberger | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Dec 17, 2022 | ↗ |
| W | Andre Fialho | KO/TKO | 2 | Jun 11, 2022 | ↗ |
| L | Sean Brady | Submission | 3 | Mar 6, 2021 | ↗ |
| W | Diego Sanchez | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Sep 26, 2020 | ↗ |
| W | Emil Meek | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Feb 22, 2020 | ↗ |
| W | Rostem Akman | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Oct 5, 2019 | ↗ |
| L | Anthony Rocco Martin | Submission | 3 | Dec 1, 2018 | ↗ |
| W | Shinsho Anzai | Submission | 1 | Jun 23, 2018 | ↗ |
| W | Li Jingliang | Decision - Unanimous | 3 | Feb 10, 2018 | ↗ |
| W | Bojan Velickovic | Decision - Split | 3 | Nov 18, 2017 | ↗ |
| L | Andrew Holbrook | Decision - Split | 3 | Nov 26, 2016 | ↗ |
| L | Kevin Lee | KO/TKO | 1 | Jul 8, 2016 | ↗ |
| W | Johnny Case | Submission | 3 | Mar 19, 2016 | ↗ |
| W | Akbarh Arreola | TKO - Doctor's Stoppage | 2 | Nov 14, 2015 | ↗ |
| L | James Vick | Submission | 1 | May 9, 2015 | ↗ |
| W | Vagner Rocha | Submission | 2 | Nov 7, 2014 | ↗ |
| W | Dashon Johnson | Submission | 3 | Jun 28, 2014 | ↗ |
UFC bouts only. Source: UFCStats.com bout pages (via the public mirror, snapshot 2026-10-18) · checked 2026-10-22. Bouts outside the UFC aren’t listed because we only republish history we can trace to an official source.