Built from Alexander Gustafsson’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher
6' 5" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 10 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 3 decision. Top 20% of Light Heavyweights: stuffs 83% of the takedowns tried on him.
The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.
| Nickname | The Mauler |
| Nationality | Sweden |
| Hometown | Stockholm, Stockholm County |
| Fighting out of | pending |
| Height | 6' 5" |
| Reach | 79.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 39 |
| Date of birth | Jan 15, 1987 |
| Weight | 205 lbs. |
| Pro record | 18-8 |
| Finish split | 10 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 3 decision |
Career averages over Alexander Gustafsson’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light Heavyweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.
Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
Pro record: 18-8. In the UFC: 10-8. Alexander Gustafsson’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.
Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-23 | L | Nikita Krylov | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Aspinall |
| 2020-07-25 | L | Fabricio Werdum | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till |
| 2019-06-01 | L | Anthony Smith | Submission | R4 | UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Smith |
| 2018-12-29 | L | Jon Jones | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 232: Jones vs. Gustafsson 2 |
| 2017-05-28 | W | Glover Teixeira | KO/TKO | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Teixeira |
| 2016-09-03 | W | Jan Blachowicz | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Arlovski vs. Barnett |
| 2015-10-03 | L | Daniel Cormier | Decision (split) | R5 | UFC 192: Cormier vs Gustafsson |
| 2015-01-24 | L | Anthony Johnson | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC on FOX: Gustafsson vs Johnson |
| 2014-03-08 | W | Jimi Manuwa | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs Manuwa |
| 2013-09-21 | L | Jon Jones | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 165: Jones vs Gustafsson |
| 2012-12-08 | W | Mauricio Rua | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Diaz |
| 2012-04-14 | W | Thiago Silva | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FUEL TV: Gustafsson vs Silva |
| 2011-12-30 | W | Vladimir Matyushenko | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 141: Lesnar vs Overeem |
| 2011-08-06 | W | Matt Hamill | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 133: Evans vs Ortiz 2 |
| 2011-02-26 | W | James Te Huna | Submission | R1 | UFC 127: Penn vs Fitch |
| 2010-10-16 | W | Cyrille Diabate | Submission | R2 | UFC 120: Bisping vs Akiyama |
| 2010-04-10 | L | Phil Davis | Submission | R1 | UFC 112: Invincible |
| 2009-11-14 | W | Jared Hamman | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 105: Couture vs Vera |
Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.