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Jeremy Stephens
29-23tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Jeremy Stephens’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher

Pro record29-23
Current streak5 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L L
DivisionLightweight
Age40
Height5' 9"
StanceOrthodox

5' 9" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Lightweight. 15 UFC wins — 8 KO/TKO, 7 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameLil' Heathen
NationalityUnited States
HometownDes Moines, Iowa
Fighting out ofAlliance MMA
Height5' 9"
Reach71.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age40
Date of birthMay 25, 1986
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record29-23
Finish split15 UFC wins — 8 KO/TKO, 7 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Jeremy Stephens’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 / min3.13
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min3.25
Striking defence57%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.10
Takedown accuracy38%
Takedown defence61%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight 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 Lightweight.
Striking50
Defence61
Grappling / TD36
Cardio75
Chin64
Fight IQ57

Our calls on Jeremy Stephens’s fights

Every fight of Jeremy Stephens’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 1 of Jeremy Stephens’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-05-09King GreenKing Green (against Stephens)79.1%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 1 of Jeremy Stephens’s fights, 1 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Jeremy Stephens

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

HEAD58.7%ACC 31%BODY17.3%ACC 72%LEGS24.0%ACC 75%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 24.0% to the legs — +6.9 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
58.7% acc 31%−3.4 vs field
BODY
17.3% acc 72%−3.5 vs field
LEGS
24.0% acc 75%+6.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 74%CLINCH 10%GROUND 17%

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.

36 UFC fights · 1,281 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Jeremy Stephens

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

1.10takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.10 landed per 15 minutes — −1.03 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS31
1.10 / 15m−1.03 vs field
ATTEMPTS29
2.89 / 15m−2.51 vs field
ACCURACY51
38%−6pp vs field
SUB ATT27
0.40 / 15m−0.90 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.22 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 Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 29-23. In the UFC: 15-20-1. Jeremy Stephens’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 — 36 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-05-09LKing GreenSubmissionR1UFC 328: Chimaev vs. Strickland
2025-05-03LMason JonesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo
2021-07-17LMateusz GamrotSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Moises
2020-05-09LCalvin KattarKO/TKOR2UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje
2019-10-18LYair RodriguezDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Weidman
2019-09-21DYair RodriguezCould not continueR1UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Stephens
2019-03-02LZabit MagomedsharipovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 235: Jones vs. Smith
2018-07-28LJose AldoKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Alvarez vs. Poirier 2
2018-02-24WJosh EmmettKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Stephens
2018-01-14WDooho ChoiKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Stephens vs. Choi
2017-09-09WGilbert MelendezDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 215: Nunes vs Shevchenko 2
2017-04-15LRenato MoicanoDecision (split)R3UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Reis
2016-11-12LFrankie EdgarDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor
2016-05-29WRenan BaraoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs Garbrandt
2015-12-12LMax HollowayDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 194: Aldo vs McGregor
2015-07-11WDennis BermudezKO/TKOR3UFC 189: Mendes vs McGregor
2014-12-12LCharles OliveiraDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: A Champion Will Be Crowned Finale
2014-06-28LCub SwansonDecision (unanimous)R5
2014-01-25WDarren ElkinsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Thomson
2013-11-09WRony JasonKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs Henderson 2
2013-05-25WEstevan PayanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2
2012-12-08LYves EdwardsKO/TKOR1UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Diaz
2012-05-15LDonald CerroneDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FUEL TV: Korean Zombie vs Poirier
2011-10-08LAnthony PettisDecision (split)R3UFC 136: Edgar vs Maynard 3
2011-06-04WDanny DownesDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs Team dos Santos Finale
2011-01-01WMarcus DavisKO/TKOR3UFC 125: Resolution
2010-09-25LMelvin GuillardDecision (split)R3UFC 119: Mir vs Cro Cop
2010-05-08WSam StoutDecision (split)R3UFC 113: Machida vs Shogun 2
2009-09-16WJustin BuchholzTKO (doctor)R1UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Guillard
2009-04-01LGleison TibauDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann
2009-02-07LJoe LauzonSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Lauzon vs Stephens
2008-11-15WRafael Dos AnjosKO/TKOR3UFC 91: Couture vs Lesnar
2008-06-21LSpencer FisherDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest Finale
2008-01-23WCole MillerKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Swick vs Burkman
2007-09-22WDiego SaraivaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 76: Knockout
2007-05-26LDin ThomasSubmissionR2UFC 71: Liddell vs Jackson

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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