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Josh Barnett
35-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Josh Barnett’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

Pro record35-8
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L W L W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age48
Height6' 3"
StanceOrthodox

6' 3" orthodox power striker campaigning at Heavyweight. 7 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 1 decision. Top 16% of Heavyweights: avoids 57% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Warmaster
NationalityUnited States
HometownSeattle, Washington
Fighting out ofUWF USA
Height6' 3"
Reach78.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age48
Date of birthNov 10, 1977
Weight250 lbs.
Pro record35-8
Finish split7 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Josh Barnett’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 / min3.20
Striking accuracy50%
Strikes absorbed / min2.11
Striking defence57%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.26
Takedown accuracy55%
Takedown defence55%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.40

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.
Striking64
Defence82
Grappling / TD60
Cardio80
Chin62
Fight IQ70

Strike zones

Strike zones

Josh Barnett

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

HEAD63.3%ACC 52%BODY29.6%ACC 89%LEGS7.1%ACC 90%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 63% head / 30% body / 7% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
63.3% acc 52%−3.5 vs field
BODY
29.6% acc 89%+11.1 vs field
LEGS
7.1% acc 90%−7.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 34%CLINCH 44%GROUND 22%

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.

10 UFC fights · 392 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Josh Barnett

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

1.26takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.26 landed per 15 minutes — −1.13 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS42
1.26 / 15m−1.13 vs field
ATTEMPTS29
2.29 / 15m−2.73 vs field
ACCURACY67
55%+4pp vs field
SUB ATT70
1.40 / 15m−0.25 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 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: 35-8. In the UFC: 7-3. Josh Barnett’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 — 10 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2016-09-03WAndrei ArlovskiSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Arlovski vs. Barnett
2016-01-30LBen RothwellSubmissionR2UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Bader
2015-09-26WRoy NelsonDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs Nelson
2013-12-28LTravis BrowneKO/TKOR1UFC 168: Weidman vs Silva 2
2013-08-31WFrank MirKO/TKOR1UFC 164: Henderson vs Pettis 2
2002-03-22WRandy CoutureKO/TKOR2UFC 36: Worlds Collide
2001-11-02WBobby HoffmanKO/TKOR2UFC 34: High Voltage
2001-06-29WSemmy SchiltSubmissionR1UFC 32: Showdown in the Meadowlands
2001-02-23LPedro RizzoKO/TKOR2UFC 30: Battle on the Boardwalk
2000-11-17WGan McGeeKO/TKOR2UFC 28: High Stakes

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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