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Josh Thomson
22-9tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Josh Thomson’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record22-9
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W L
DivisionLightweight
Age47
Height5' 10"
StanceOrthodox

5' 10" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 3 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 1 decision. Top 12% of Lightweights: avoids 64% of the strikes thrown at him and absorbs only 2.12 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.

NicknameThe Punk
NationalityUnited States
HometownSan Jose, California
Fighting out ofAmerican Kickboxing Academy
Height5' 10"
Reach71.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age47
Date of birthSep 21, 1978
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record22-9
Finish split3 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Josh Thomson’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 / min2.59
Striking accuracy47%
Strikes absorbed / min2.12
Striking defence64%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.92
Takedown accuracy39%
Takedown defence54%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.30

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.
Striking58
Defence84
Grappling / TD59
Cardio5
Chin34
Fight IQ48

Strike zones

Strike zones

Josh Thomson

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

HEAD49.8%ACC 31%BODY20.8%ACC 62%LEGS29.4%ACC 74%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 29.4% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +12.3 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
49.8% acc 31%−12.3 vs field
BODY
20.8% acc 62%+0.0 vs field
LEGS
29.4% acc 74%+12.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 65%CLINCH 19%GROUND 16%

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.

7 UFC fights · 197 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Josh Thomson

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

1.92takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.92 landed per 15 minutes — −0.21 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS54
1.92 / 15m−0.21 vs field
ATTEMPTS56
4.92 / 15m−0.48 vs field
ACCURACY51
39%−5pp vs field
SUB ATT73
1.30 / 15m+0.00 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: 22-9. In the UFC: 3-4. Josh Thomson’s last 7 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 — 7 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2015-07-15LTony FergusonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Mir vs Duffee
2014-07-26LKing GreenDecision (split)R3UFC on FOX: Lawler vs Brown
2014-01-25LBenson HendersonDecision (split)R5UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Thomson
2013-04-20WNate DiazKO/TKOR2UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Melendez
2004-08-21LYves EdwardsKO/TKOR1UFC 49: Unfinished Business
2004-01-31WHermes FrancaDecision (majority)R3UFC 46: Supernatural
2003-09-26WGerald StrebendtKO/TKOR1UFC 44: Undisputed

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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