Built from John Lineker’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher
5' 3" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Bantamweight. 12 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 5 decision. Top 7% of Bantamweights: lands 5.36 significant strikes a minute and completes 58% of his takedown attempts.
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 | Hands of Stone |
| Nationality | Brazil |
| Hometown | Paranagua, Parana |
| Fighting out of | pending |
| Height | 5' 3" |
| Reach | 67.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 36 |
| Date of birth | Jun 12, 1990 |
| Weight | 135 lbs. |
| Pro record | 31-9 |
| Finish split | 12 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 5 decision |
Career averages over John Lineker’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 Bantamweight 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 (5.45 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: 31-9. In the UFC: 12-4. John Lineker’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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-27 | L | Cory Sandhagen | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Hermansson |
| 2018-05-12 | W | Brian Kelleher | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington |
| 2017-10-28 | W | Marlon Vera | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Machida |
| 2016-12-30 | L | TJ Dillashaw | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey |
| 2016-10-01 | W | John Dodson | Decision (split) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson |
| 2016-07-13 | W | Michael McDonald | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: McDonald vs. Lineker |
| 2016-05-14 | W | Rob Font | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 198: Werdum vs Miocic |
| 2015-09-05 | W | Francisco Rivera | Submission | R1 | UFC 191: Johnson vs Dodson 2 |
| 2015-01-31 | W | Ian McCall | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 183: Silva vs Diaz |
| 2014-07-16 | W | Alptekin Ozkilic | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs Miller |
| 2014-02-01 | L | Ali Bagautinov | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 169: Barao vs Faber 2 |
| 2013-10-26 | W | Phil Harris | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Munoz |
| 2013-08-03 | W | Jose Maria | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 163: Aldo vs Jung |
| 2013-05-18 | W | Azamat Gashimov | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold |
| 2012-11-10 | W | Yasuhiro Urushitani | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Macao: Franklin vs Le |
| 2012-05-05 | L | Louis Gaudinot | Submission | R2 | UFC on FOX: Diaz vs Miller |
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.