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Cody Donovan
8-5tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Cody Donovan’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Volume striker

Pro record8-5
Current streak3 losses
Last 4 (UFC)L L L W
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age45
Height6' 3"
StanceOrthodox

6' 3" orthodox volume striker campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO. Top 6% of Light Heavyweights: lands 5.61 significant strikes a minute and connects with 59% of his significant strikes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameDonnybrook
NationalityUnited States
HometownDenver, Colorado
Fighting out ofGrudge Training Center
Height6' 3"
Reach74.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age45
Date of birthFeb 20, 1981
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record8-5
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO

Career rates facts

Career averages over Cody Donovan’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 / min5.61
Striking accuracy59%
Strikes absorbed / min5.44
Striking defence45%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.67
Takedown accuracy28%
Takedown defence0%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.70

FightIQ Metrics

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.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Light Heavyweight.
Striking90
Defence26
Grappling / TD51
Cardio Round-2 tape only limited sample75
Chin7
Fight IQ50

Strike zones

Strike zones

Cody Donovan

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

HEAD63.3%ACC 49%BODY33.7%ACC 90%LEGS3.0%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Body puncher 33.7% of his landed strikes go to the body — +14.5 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
63.3% acc 49%−0.5 vs field
BODY
33.7% acc 90%+14.5 vs field
LEGS
3.0%−14.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 58%CLINCH 36%GROUND 6%

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.

4 UFC fights · 101 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Cody Donovan

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

1.67takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 1.70 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +0.11 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS52
1.67 / 15m−0.60 vs field
ATTEMPTS64
5.96 / 15m+0.53 vs field
ACCURACY25
28%−15pp vs field
SUB ATT75
1.70 / 15m+0.11 vs field

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.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 8-5. In the UFC: 1-3. Cody Donovan’s last 4 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 — 4 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2014-07-19LNikita KrylovKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Brandao
2013-11-16LGian VillanteKO/TKOR2UFC 167: St-Pierre vs Hendricks
2013-08-17LOvince Saint PreuxKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Sonnen
2012-12-14WNick PennerKO/TKOR1UFC on FX: Sotiropoulos vs Pearson

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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