Built from Gunnar Nelson’s own numbers — style, standout rate and current form. Not reported prose.
5'11" switch bjj specialist with a 10-5 record, age 36. Standout metric: hits 59% of takedown attempts; averages 196s of control time per fight. Form: last 5: WLLWW · on a 2-fight win streak · 735 days off · Elo 1559.
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 | Gunni |
| Nationality | Iceland |
| Hometown | Reykjavik |
| Fighting out of | pending |
| Height | 5' 11" |
| Reach | 72.0" |
| Stance | Switch |
| Age | 38 |
| Date of birth | Jul 28, 1988 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 19-6-1 |
| Finish split | pending |
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against every fighter on record. Tap any i for what a score measures.
The moat — every call we've made on this fighter, timestamped and graded in public. Nobody else can copy this.
FightIQ has picked Gunnar Nelson once, 1 correct (1-0 — 100% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | Card | We said | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-18 | Bryan Barberena | UFC Fight Night: Mokaev vs Filho | 63.7% | Correct |
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.
Pro record: 19-6-1. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).
