Built from Junior Tafa’s own numbers — style, standout rate and current form. Not reported prose.
6'3" orthodox finisher with a 2-4 record, age 29. Standout metric: finishes 100% of wins by KO. Form: last 5: WLLWL · 1-fight slide · 203 days off · Elo 1478.
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 Juggernaut |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Hometown | Avondale |
| Fighting out of | NTG Fight & Fitness |
| Height | 6' 3" |
| Reach | 75.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 29 |
| Date of birth | Sep 21, 1996 |
| Weight | 205 lbs. |
| Pro record | 7-5 |
| Finish split | pending |
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against every fighter on record. Tap any i for what a score measures.
The moat — every call we've made on this fighter, timestamped and graded in public. Nobody else can copy this.
FightIQ has picked Junior Tafa 6×, 3 correct (3-3 — 50% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | Card | We said | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-02 | Kevin Christian | UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs Prates | 54.4% | Correct |
| 2025-07-12 | Tuco Tokkos | UFC Fight Night: Matthews vs Njokuani | 66% | Missed |
| 2024-10-12 | Sean Sharaf | UFC Fight Night: Tafa vs Sharaf | 57.8% | Correct |
| 2024-02-17 | Marcos Rogerio de Lima | UFC Fight Night: Lemos vs Dern | 51% | Missed |
| 2023-08-26 | Parker Porter | UFC Fight Night: Tafa vs Porter | 66.9% | Correct |
| 2023-04-22 | Mohammed Usman | UFC Fight Night: Usman vs Tafa | 65.6% | Missed |
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.
Pro record: 7-5. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).
