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Chris Leben
22-11tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record22-11
Current streak4 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L W
DivisionMiddleweight
Age46
Height5' 11"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 11" southpaw power striker campaigning at Middleweight. 12 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 3 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Crippler
NationalityUnited States
HometownPortland, Oregon
Fighting out ofAlliance MMA
Height5' 11"
Reach73.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age46
Date of birthJul 21, 1980
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record22-11
Finish split12 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Chris Leben’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 / min2.87
Striking accuracy42%
Strikes absorbed / min2.87
Striking defence52%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.14
Takedown accuracy41%
Takedown defence53%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking48
Defence56
Grappling / TD42
Cardio38
Chin46
Fight IQ46

Strike zones

Strike zones

Chris Leben

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

HEAD60.3%ACC 35%BODY16.6%ACC 62%LEGS23.1%ACC 68%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 23.1% to the legs — +7.2 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
60.3% acc 35%−3.3 vs field
BODY
16.6% acc 62%−4.0 vs field
LEGS
23.1% acc 68%+7.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 50%CLINCH 28%GROUND 22%

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.

22 UFC fights · 572 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Chris Leben

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

1.14takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.14 landed per 15 minutes — −1.13 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS33
1.14 / 15m−1.13 vs field
ATTEMPTS34
2.78 / 15m−2.54 vs field
ACCURACY45
41%−6pp vs field
SUB ATT49
0.80 / 15m−0.76 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 22-11. In the UFC: 12-10. Chris Leben’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 — 22 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2013-12-28LUriah HallTKO (doctor)R1UFC 168: Weidman vs Silva 2
2013-07-06LAndrew CraigDecision (split)R3UFC 162: Silva vs Weidman
2012-12-29LDerek BrunsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 155: Dos Santos vs Velasquez II
2011-11-05LMark MunozKO/TKOR2UFC 138: Leben vs Munoz
2011-07-02WWanderlei SilvaKO/TKOR1UFC 132: Cruz vs Faber
2011-01-01LBrian StannKO/TKOR1UFC 125: Resolution
2010-07-03WYoshihiro AkiyamaSubmissionR3UFC 116: Lesnar vs Carwin
2010-06-19WAaron SimpsonKO/TKOR2The Ultimate Fighter: Team Liddell vs Team Ortiz Finale
2010-01-11WJay SilvaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz
2009-08-29LJake RosholtSubmissionR3UFC 102: Couture vs Nogueira
2008-10-18LMichael BispingDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 89: Bisping vs Leben
2008-03-01WAlessio SakaraKO/TKOR1UFC 82: Pride of a Champion
2007-09-19WTerry MartinKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Thomas vs Florian
2007-05-26LKalib StarnesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 71: Liddell vs Jackson
2006-12-30LJason MacDonaldSubmissionR2UFC 66: Liddell vs Ortiz 2
2006-08-17WJorge SantiagoKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night 6
2006-06-28LAnderson SilvaKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night 5
2006-04-06WLuigi FioravantiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night 4
2006-01-16WJorge RiveraKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night 3
2005-10-03WEdwin DeWeesSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night 2
2005-08-06WPatrick CoteDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night 1
2005-04-09WJason ThackerKO/TKOR1The Ultimate Fighter: Team Couture vs. Team Liddell Finale

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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