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Alistair Overeem
47-19tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Alistair Overeem’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

Pro record47-19
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W W L W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age46
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox power striker campaigning at Heavyweight. 12 UFC wins — 9 KO/TKO, 3 decision. Top 9% of Heavyweights: connects with 64% of his significant strikes and avoids 57% of the strikes thrown at 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Demolition Man
NationalityNetherlands
HometownAmsterdam
Fighting out ofElevation Fight Team
Height6' 4"
Reach80.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age46
Date of birthMay 17, 1980
Weight265 lbs.
Pro record47-19
Finish split12 UFC wins — 9 KO/TKO, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Alistair Overeem’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 / min3.67
Striking accuracy64%
Strikes absorbed / min2.44
Striking defence57%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.42
Takedown accuracy55%
Takedown defence73%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the 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 Heavyweight.
Striking82
Defence78
Grappling / TD53
Cardio39
Chin13
Fight IQ53

Strike zones

Strike zones

Alistair Overeem

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

HEAD54.0%ACC 65%BODY32.3%ACC 88%LEGS13.7%ACC 92%
FightIQ read Body puncher 32.3% of his landed strikes go to the body — +13.8 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
54.0% acc 65%−12.8 vs field
BODY
32.3% acc 88%+13.8 vs field
LEGS
13.7% acc 92%−1.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 44%CLINCH 20%GROUND 36%

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.

20 UFC fights · 715 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Alistair Overeem

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

1.42takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.42 landed per 15 minutes — −0.97 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS48
1.42 / 15m−0.97 vs field
ATTEMPTS32
2.58 / 15m−2.44 vs field
ACCURACY67
55%+4pp vs field
SUB ATT45
0.80 / 15m−0.85 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 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 Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 47-19. In the UFC: 12-8. Alistair Overeem’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.

Full UFC career — 20 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2021-02-06LAlexander VolkovKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov
2020-09-05WAugusto SakaiKO/TKOR5UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai
2020-05-16WWalt HarrisKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Harris
2019-12-07LJairzinho RozenstruikKO/TKOR5UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Rozenstruik
2019-04-20WAleksei OleinikKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Oleinik
2018-11-24WSergei PavlovichKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Ngannou 2
2018-06-09LCurtis BlaydesKO/TKOR3UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2
2017-12-02LFrancis NgannouKO/TKOR1UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2
2017-07-08WFabricio WerdumDecision (majority)R3UFC 213: Romero vs. Whittaker
2017-03-04WMark HuntKO/TKOR3UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2
2016-09-10LStipe MiocicKO/TKOR1UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem
2016-05-08WAndrei ArlovskiKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs Arlovski
2015-12-19WJunior Dos SantosKO/TKOR2UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2
2015-03-14WRoy NelsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 185: Pettis vs Dos Anjos
2014-12-13WStefan StruveKO/TKOR1UFC on FOX: Dos Santos vs Miocic
2014-09-05LBen RothwellKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs Mousasi
2014-02-01WFrank MirDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 169: Barao vs Faber 2
2013-08-17LTravis BrowneKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Sonnen
2013-02-02LAntonio SilvaKO/TKOR3UFC 156: Aldo vs Edgar
2011-12-30WBrock LesnarKO/TKOR1UFC 141: Lesnar vs Overeem

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.

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