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Brandon Thatch
11-5tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Brandon Thatch’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record11-5
Current streak4 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L W
DivisionWelterweight
Age41
Height6' 2"
StanceSwitch

6' 2" switch all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 2 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO. Top 14% of Welterweights: completes 66% of his takedown attempts.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameRukus
NationalityUnited States
HometownDenver, Colorado
Fighting out ofElevation Fight Team
Height6' 2"
Reach74.0"
StanceSwitch
Age41
Date of birthJul 11, 1985
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record11-5
Finish split2 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO

Career rates facts

Career averages over Brandon Thatch’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 / min2.70
Striking accuracy42%
Strikes absorbed / min3.63
Striking defence52%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.36
Takedown accuracy66%
Takedown defence50%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.70

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight 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 Welterweight.
Striking48
Defence46
Grappling / TD58
Cardio11
Chin66
Fight IQ46

Strike zones

Strike zones

Brandon Thatch

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

HEAD52.9%ACC 32%BODY26.1%ACC 69%LEGS21.0%ACC 76%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 53% head / 26% body / 21% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
52.9% acc 32%−9.4 vs field
BODY
26.1% acc 69%+5.0 vs field
LEGS
21.0% acc 76%+4.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 66%CLINCH 26%GROUND 8%

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.

6 UFC fights · 119 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Brandon Thatch

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

1.36takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.36 landed per 15 minutes — −0.63 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS45
1.36 / 15m−0.63 vs field
ATTEMPTS22
2.06 / 15m−2.88 vs field
ACCURACY86
66%+20pp vs field
SUB ATT43
0.70 / 15m−0.62 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 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 Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 11-5. In the UFC: 2-4. Brandon Thatch’s last 6 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 — 6 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2016-12-30LNiko PriceSubmissionR1UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey
2016-03-05LSiyar BahadurzadaSubmissionR3UFC 196: McGregor vs Diaz
2015-07-11LGunnar NelsonSubmissionR1UFC 189: Mendes vs McGregor
2015-02-14LBenson HendersonSubmissionR4UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs Thatch
2013-11-09WPaulo ThiagoKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs Henderson 2
2013-08-28WJustin EdwardsKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann 2

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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