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James Thompson

Pro 20-16tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from James Thompson’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder

Pro record20-16
DivisionHeavyweight
Age47
Height6' 5"
StanceOrthodox

6' 5" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Heavyweight. Top 11% of Heavyweights: land 5.13 significant strikes a minute.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s.

NicknameThe Colossus
NationalityEngland
Hometown (per Sherdog)Bristol
CampLondon Shootfighters
Height6' 5"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age47
Date of birthDec 16, 1978
Weight265 lbs.
Pro record20-16
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over James Thompson’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on their official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min5.13
Striking accuracy52%
Strikes absorbed / min3.19
Striking defence41%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.14
Takedown accuracy36%
Takedown defence53%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.30

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the 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 Heavyweight.
Striking80
Defence44
Grappling / TD60
Cardio Not on the UFC statistical record we readn/a
Chin Not on the UFC statistical record we readn/a
Fight IQ61

Strike zones

No zone data

UFCStats has no per-zone significant-strike breakdown on file for this fighter yet — usually because they have not fought in the UFC, or their bouts predate zone-level recording.

Takedowns

Takedowns

James Thompson

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

3.14takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.14 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +0.75 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS79
3.14 / 15m+0.75 vs field
ATTEMPTS86
8.72 / 15m+3.67 vs field
ACCURACY33
36%−15pp vs field
SUB ATT68
1.30 / 15m−0.41 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.29 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 Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 20-16. A fight-by-fight timeline appears here once James Thompson has a UFC bout on the official record.

On the map

The camp on the record and the hometown on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Camp: London ShootfightersHometown: Bristol

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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