David Martinez vs. Dan Ige: the 5-inch reach edge that frames the bantamweight main card

The setup

On Saturday, September 12, 2026, Noche UFC brings David Martinez (14-1-0) and Dan Ige (19-11-0) together at bantamweight on the main card at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, scheduled for three rounds.

The card carries 7 bouts in our tables, with this pairing on the main card. The bout is listed as announced in the PropBetEdge schedule.

The question this preview works through is whether Dan Ige's 5 inches of reach translates into control of range against David Martinez, or whether the archive says Martinez closes distance regardless. PropSports career averages are on file for both fighters, which sets the limit on how far that read can go.

Tale of the tape

• Record: David Martinez 14-1-0 · Dan Ige 19-11-0
• Age: David Martinez 28 · Dan Ige 35
• Height: David Martinez 5'5" · Dan Ige 5'7"
• Reach: David Martinez 66" · Dan Ige 71"
• Stance: David Martinez Orthodox · Dan Ige Orthodox
• Listed weight: David Martinez 135 lbs · Dan Ige 145 lbs

Range is the first thing the tape flags: Dan Ige holds 5 inches of reach (71" to 66"), which sets the distance David Martinez has to cross to land. A reach edge matters most when the longer fighter also sets the pace, and here the numbers cut the other way: David Martinez out-lands Ige 4.82 to 3.6 per minute, so the shorter fighter is the busier one and has to cross the gap to do it. That is a different fight from a long fighter picking apart a passive one. David Martinez is the younger by 7 years (28 to 35). Age on its own tells you little at this level; it reads better alongside the layoff figures in the form section. Both fight orthodox, so lead hands mirror and the rear-hand exchanges are conventional. Listed weights differ: Dan Ige at 145 lbs to 135 for David Martinez. Listed weight is a roster figure, not a weigh-in, so it is a note rather than an edge.

Recent form

Our archive has 4 completed UFC bouts for David Martinez, 4 wins. 1 of those wins came inside the distance (1 by KO/TKO), a 25% finish rate on archived wins. He last fought on Feb 28, 2026 and beat Marlon Vera by unanimous decision in round 3. That puts him 196 days out by fight night.

• W vs Marlon Vera — unanimous decision, R3 (Feb 28, 2026, UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Kavanagh)
• W vs Rob Font — unanimous decision, R3 (Sep 13, 2025, UFC Fight Night: Lopes vs. Silva)
• W vs Saimon Oliveira — KO/TKO, R1 (Mar 29, 2025, UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Erceg)
• W vs Xavier Franklin — unanimous decision, R3 (Oct 2, 2024, Dana White's Contender Series: Season 8, Week 8)

Dan Ige has 22 completed UFC bouts in the PropBetEdge archive: 12 wins and 10 losses. 7 of those wins came inside the distance (5 by KO/TKO and 2 by submission), a 58% finish rate on archived wins. He has been finished once in the archive. He last fought on Feb 21, 2026 and lost to Melquizael Costa by KO/TKO in round 1. That puts him 203 days out by fight night.

• L vs Melquizael Costa — KO/TKO, R1 (Feb 21, 2026, UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Hernandez)
• L vs Patricio Pitbull — unanimous decision, R3 (Jul 19, 2025, UFC 318: Holloway vs. Poirier 3)
• W vs Sean Woodson — KO/TKO, R3 (Apr 12, 2025, UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes)
• L vs Lerone Murphy — unanimous decision, R3 (Oct 26, 2024, UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway)
• L vs Diego Lopes — unanimous decision, R3 (Jun 29, 2024, UFC 303: Pereira vs. Prochazka 2)

The finishing profiles diverge: Dan Ige ends 58% of archived wins early, David Martinez 25%. Combined with David Martinez having been never finished in 4 archived bouts, that asymmetry is where a method-of-victory read starts.

Style and statistical matchup

David Martinez lands 4.82 significant strikes per minute at 46% accuracy; Dan Ige lands 3.6 at 45%. That 1.22-per-minute gap in David Martinez's favour is a real pace differential: over three rounds it compounds into a scorecard edge unless the lower-volume fighter is landing the more damaging shots. On the other side of the exchange, David Martinez absorbs 2.9 per minute with 69% striking defence and Dan Ige absorbs 3.56 with 56%. David Martinez's 13-point defence edge is the number to hold against the pace figures: it decides how much of the opponent's output actually lands.

On the ground, David Martinez averages 0.6 takedowns per 15 minutes at 25% accuracy and defends 100% of attempts against him; Dan Ige averages 0.93 at 26% and defends 56%. Neither fighter wrestles much by the averages, which points to a fight decided on the feet and makes the striking figures above the ones that matter.

All of these are career-to-date PropSports snapshots at capture, not as-of figures for this bout: they describe each fighter across every opponent, which is why the archive form above is read alongside them rather than replaced by them.

Round-level stats exist for 7 archived rounds of David Martinez's: 160 of 351 significant strikes landed (46%), 22.9 per round, 2 of 7 takedowns, 2:58 of control time and 1 knockdown. Round-level stats exist for 56 archived rounds of Dan Ige's: 933 of 2062 significant strikes landed (45%), 16.7 per round, 13 of 59 takedowns, 30:36 of control time and 7 knockdowns. Those samples are small and uneven, so they colour the career averages rather than override them.

What could break the angle

Here is where the read could be wrong. Career averages are career-to-date snapshots at capture; they include fights outside this matchup context and are not as-of figures. There is also no odds snapshot in PropBetEdge data for this bout, so nothing above can be checked against a market yet; the read describes what to look for, not where value sits. A late weigh-in miss, a replacement or a change in scheduled rounds would each invalidate parts of it.

Final read

On the data, Dan Ige's 5 inches of reach is the one material physical edge, and what it is worth depends on pace figures our tables do hold. The uncertainty is ordinary fight variance rather than missing data. What to monitor: the three-round format holding, the weigh-in, and once a price exists, where the round betting and significant strikes markets open relative to this read. No model price or market line exists in PropBetEdge data for this bout, so this is not a pick; the Bettor's Edge panel above carries the impact score and the markets connected to the evidence.

Matchup page: David Martinez vs. Dan Ige · Full card: Noche UFC: Silva vs. Delgado · Fighter pages: David Martinez, Dan Ige.