Jamal Pogues
Skill profile
138 MMA anchors Striking, Wrestling · his tags and claims adjust Accuracy, Striking D, Durability, TD Defense, Control · stats alone on Grappling.
Built on 60 minutes of tracked cage time across 4 statted fights — every axis is held down until there is more tape, so read this as a sketch rather than a verdict.
Career rates — the raw numbers behind the chart
Insider info
vs Hamdy Abdelwahab coinflip UFC Fight Night Adesanya vs Imavov Full Card Analysis, Prediction & Breakdown · January 27, 2025
Names Abdelwahab and gives a clear wrestling-path mechanism, but explicitly instructs the viewer to stay away from betting the fight ('too many unknowns') and separately uses the root-beer wager-caution idiom about a juiced total line. Per the confidence-bar rule, idiom plus stay-away advice together mean coinflip.
Decent striker with pretty good volume and a clean jab, though he drops his rear hand late in his own jab. Decent wrestler who fights at heavyweight as a undersized light-heavyweight by default; good on top with scrambling ability, slams, and top pressure, but not good once on his back (an extra weakness beyond the board). Decent takedown defense.
vs Mick Parkin coinflip UFC Fight Night Aspinall vs Tybura Full Card Breakdown, Analysis, and Predictions (UFC London) · July 18, 2023 · 1 read since
Takes Parkin while admitting this is a close fight he isn't sure about, and separately tells viewers directly not to bet it -- caps at coinflip.
Pogues is a decent-to-good wrestler with big slams, good top pressure and scrambling ability carried over from light heavyweight, and decent boxing with good volume and a clean jab; his stated flaw is leaving his chin exposed when he jabs (hand drops instead of covering). The analyst leans away from him on that chin-exposure risk.
Striking trend
Fight history
L Hamdy Abdelwahab 5-0 walk-in Decision - Split · R3 5:00 — UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Imavov · February 1, 2025
W Thomas Petersen 0-0 walk-in Decision - Unanimous · R3 5:00 — UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Imavov · February 3, 2024
L Mick Parkin 6-0 walk-in Decision - Unanimous · R3 5:00 — UFC Fight Night: Aspinall vs. Tybura · July 22, 2023
W Josh Parisian 15-5 walk-in Decision - Unanimous · R3 5:00 — UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Blanchfield · February 18, 2023
Walk-in records count UFC bouts in this database. For the pre-UFC career, see the record breakdown below or the Tapology button up top.
Record breakdown
Wins by method
Losses by method
Fights by organization
Showing UFC fights only — this fighter's full pre-UFC career hasn't been synced yet. It will fill in as the weekly career backfill reaches them.
Division context
Headshot of Jamal Pogues by UFC · Official UFC athlete photo (copyright UFC; not freely licensed) · Wikimedia Commons · flattened onto dark background, cropped/resized