Built from Joe Lauzon’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler
5' 10" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Lightweight. 15 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 7 submission, 2 decision. Top 14% of Lightweights: averages 2 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
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 | pending |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown | Bridgewater, Massachusetts |
| Fighting out of | Lauzon MMA |
| Height | 5' 10" |
| Reach | 71.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 42 |
| Date of birth | May 22, 1984 |
| Weight | 155 lbs. |
| Pro record | 28-16 |
| Finish split | 15 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 7 submission, 2 decision |
Career averages over Joe Lauzon’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.
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.
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. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
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.
Pro record: 28-16. In the UFC: 15-12. Joe Lauzon’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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-18 | W | Jonathan Pearce | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Weidman |
| 2018-04-07 | L | Chris Gruetzemacher | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 223: Khabib vs. Iaquinta |
| 2017-11-11 | L | Clay Guida | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis |
| 2017-04-22 | L | Stevie Ray | Decision (majority) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov |
| 2017-01-15 | W | Marcin Held | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Penn |
| 2016-08-27 | L | Jim Miller | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Maia vs. Condit |
| 2016-07-09 | W | Diego Sanchez | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 200: Tate vs Nunes |
| 2015-12-11 | L | Evan Dunham | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber Finale |
| 2015-07-25 | W | Takanori Gomi | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC on FOX: Dillashaw vs. Barao II |
| 2015-01-31 | L | Al Iaquinta | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 183: Silva vs Diaz |
| 2014-09-05 | W | Michael Chiesa | TKO (doctor) | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs Mousasi |
| 2013-12-14 | W | Mac Danzig | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Benavidez 2 |
| 2013-08-17 | L | Michael Johnson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Sonnen |
| 2012-12-29 | L | Jim Miller | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 155: Dos Santos vs Velasquez II |
| 2012-08-04 | W | Jamie Varner | Submission | R3 | UFC on FOX: Shogun vs Vera |
| 2012-02-25 | L | Anthony Pettis | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson |
| 2011-10-08 | W | Melvin Guillard | Submission | R1 | UFC 136: Edgar vs Maynard 3 |
| 2011-06-26 | W | Curt Warburton | Submission | R1 | UFC Live: Kongo vs Barry |
| 2010-11-20 | L | George Sotiropoulos | Submission | R2 | UFC 123: Rampage vs Machida |
| 2010-08-28 | W | Gabe Ruediger | Submission | R1 | UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2 |
| 2010-01-02 | L | Sam Stout | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 108: Evans vs Silva |
| 2009-02-07 | W | Jeremy Stephens | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Lauzon vs Stephens |
| 2008-09-17 | W | Kyle Bradley | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Neer |
| 2008-04-02 | L | Kenny Florian | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Florian vs Lauzon |
| 2007-11-17 | W | Jason Reinhardt | Submission | R1 | UFC 78: Validation |
| 2007-06-23 | W | Brandon Melendez | Submission | R2 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Pulver vs. Team Penn Finale |
| 2006-09-23 | W | Jens Pulver | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 63: Hughes vs Penn |
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.