Built from Joshua Burkman’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder
5' 10" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 6 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 4 decision.
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 | The People's Warrior |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Fighting out of | The Pit Elevated Fight Team |
| Height | 5' 10" |
| Reach | 72.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 46 |
| Date of birth | Apr 10, 1980 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 28-16 |
| Finish split | 6 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 4 decision |
Career averages over Joshua Burkman’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: 6-12-1. Joshua Burkman’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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-02-18 | L | Alex Morono | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Medeiros |
| 2017-07-29 | L | Drew Dober | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones 2 |
| 2017-03-11 | L | Michel Prazeres | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum |
| 2016-10-01 | L | Zak Ottow | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson |
| 2016-05-29 | L | Paul Felder | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs Garbrandt |
| 2016-02-06 | W | KJ Noons | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs Thompson |
| 2015-08-23 | L | Patrick Cote | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs Oliveira |
| 2015-05-23 | L | Dong Hyun Kim | Submission | R3 | UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier |
| 2015-01-03 | D | Hector Lombard | Overturned | R3 | UFC 182: Jones vs Cormier |
| 2008-10-25 | L | Pete Sell | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 90: Silva vs Cote |
| 2008-06-21 | L | Dustin Hazelett | Submission | R2 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest Finale |
| 2008-01-23 | L | Mike Swick | Decision (majority) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Swick vs Burkman |
| 2007-10-20 | W | Forrest Petz | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 77: Hostile Territory |
| 2007-05-26 | L | Karo Parisyan | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 71: Liddell vs Jackson |
| 2007-01-25 | W | Chad Reiner | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Evans vs Salmon |
| 2006-07-08 | W | Josh Neer | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 61: Bitter Rivals |
| 2006-04-06 | L | Jon Fitch | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night 4 |
| 2006-01-16 | W | Drew Fickett | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night 3 |
| 2005-11-05 | W | Sammy Morgan | KO/TKO | R1 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Franklin Finale |
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.