Built from Chael Sonnen’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder
6' 1" southpaw grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 7 UFC wins — 2 submission, 5 decision. Top 4% of Light Heavyweights: absorbs only 1.1 significant strikes a minute and avoids 62% of the strikes thrown at 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 | pending |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown | West Linn, Oregon |
| Fighting out of | Team Quest |
| Height | 6' 1" |
| Reach | 73.0" |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Age | 49 |
| Date of birth | Apr 03, 1977 |
| Weight | 205 lbs. |
| Pro record | 29-15-1 |
| Finish split | 7 UFC wins — 2 submission, 5 decision |
Career averages over Chael Sonnen’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: 29-15-1. In the UFC: 7-7. Chael Sonnen’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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-11-16 | L | Rashad Evans | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 167: St-Pierre vs Hendricks |
| 2013-08-17 | W | Mauricio Rua | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Sonnen |
| 2013-04-27 | L | Jon Jones | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 159: Jones vs Sonnen |
| 2012-07-07 | L | Anderson Silva | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 148: Silva vs Sonnen 2 |
| 2012-01-28 | W | Michael Bisping | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Evans vs Davis |
| 2011-10-08 | W | Brian Stann | Submission | R2 | UFC 136: Edgar vs Maynard 3 |
| 2010-08-07 | L | Anderson Silva | Submission | R5 | UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen |
| 2010-02-06 | W | Nate Marquardt | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 109: Relentless |
| 2009-10-24 | W | Yushin Okami | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 104: Machida vs Shogun |
| 2009-05-23 | W | Dan Miller | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 98: Evans vs Machida |
| 2009-02-21 | L | Demian Maia | Submission | R1 | UFC 95: Sanchez vs Stevenson |
| 2006-05-27 | L | Jeremy Horn | Submission | R2 | UFC 60: Hughes vs Gracie |
| 2006-04-06 | W | Trevor Prangley | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night 4 |
| 2005-10-07 | L | Renato Sobral | Submission | R2 | UFC 55: Fury |
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.