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Alexander Gustafsson
18-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Alexander Gustafsson’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher

Pro record18-8
Current streak4 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L W
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age39
Height6' 5"
StanceOrthodox

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.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

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.

NicknameThe Mauler
NationalitySweden
HometownStockholm, Stockholm County
Fighting out ofpending
Height6' 5"
Reach79.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age39
Date of birthJan 15, 1987
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record18-8
Finish split10 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 3 decision

Career rates facts

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.

Striking
Strikes landed / min4.03
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min3.53
Striking defence51%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.53
Takedown accuracy39%
Takedown defence83%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

FightIQ Metrics

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.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Light Heavyweight.
Striking57
Defence52
Grappling / TD40
Cardio87
Chin66
Fight IQ60

Strike zones

Strike zones

Alexander Gustafsson

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD69.7%ACC 35%BODY14.6%ACC 54%LEGS15.7%ACC 76%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 69.7% upstairs — +5.9 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
69.7% acc 35%+5.9 vs field
BODY
14.6% acc 54%−4.6 vs field
LEGS
15.7% acc 76%−1.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 76%CLINCH 8%GROUND 16%

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.

18 UFC fights · 751 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Alexander Gustafsson

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

1.53takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.53 landed per 15 minutes — −0.74 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS48
1.53 / 15m−0.74 vs field
ATTEMPTS45
3.92 / 15m−1.51 vs field
ACCURACY46
39%−4pp vs field
SUB ATT27
0.40 / 15m−1.19 vs field

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.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

Recent form

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.

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