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Billy Ray Goff
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Profile FightIQ Newsroom

Reported prose from our newsroom. Power striker

Billy Ray Goff is 1-2 in the UFC. He debuted on Aug. 26, 2023, and stopped Yusaku Kinoshita by TKO in the first round.

He has lost his two fights since. Trey Waters beat him by unanimous decision on May 11, 2024, and Ramiz Brahimaj submitted him in the first round on May 31, 2025.

All three bouts were at welterweight, and two of the three ended in the opening round.

Goff returns Saturday at the UFC APEX after about 14 months out, his longest gap between UFC appearances. Those three fights are his full UFC record to date.

Written 2026-08-08 · ahead of UFC Vegas — Gamrot vs Salkilld. News (#18) — checked against the fight record before publication.

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.

Nicknamepending
Nationalitypending
Hometownpending
Fighting out ofpending
Height5' 10"
Reach72.0"
StanceSwitch
Age28
Date of birthJun 18, 1998
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record9-4
Finish splitpending

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against every fighter on record. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats.
Striking79
Defence49
Grappling / TD30
Cardio62
Chin21
Fight IQ48

Our record on Billy Ray Goff

The moat — every call we've made on this fighter, timestamped and graded in public. Nobody else can copy this.

FightIQ has picked Billy Ray Goff once, 0 correct (0-1 — 0% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentCardWe saidResult
2025-05-31Ramiz BrahimajUFC Fight Night: Reese vs Todorovic58.3%Missed

Strike zones

Strike zones

Billy Ray Goff

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

HEAD46.7%ACC 33%BODY23.6%ACC 63%LEGS29.7%ACC 82%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 29.7% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +13.4 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
46.7% acc 33%−16.2 vs field
BODY
23.6% acc 63%+2.8 vs field
LEGS
29.7% acc 82%+13.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 89%CLINCH 10%GROUND 1%

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.

4 UFC fights · 182 landed

Recent form

Pro record: 9-4. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).

L · vs Ramiz BrahimajUFC Fight Night: Reese vs Todorovic2025-05-31
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