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Justin Willis
8-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Justin Willis’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

Pro record8-2
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W W W W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age39
Height6' 1"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 1" southpaw decision fighter campaigning at Heavyweight. 4 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 3 decision. Top 14% of Heavyweights: connects with 59% of his significant strikes and 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameBig Pretty
NationalityUnited States
HometownSan Jose, California
Fighting out ofAmerican Kickboxing Academy
Height6' 1"
Reach78.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age39
Date of birthJul 19, 1987
Weight264 lbs.
Pro record8-2
Finish split4 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Justin Willis’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 / min3.37
Striking accuracy59%
Strikes absorbed / min2.57
Striking defence57%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.96
Takedown accuracy66%
Takedown defence36%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

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.
Striking76
Defence76
Grappling / TD53
Cardio37
Chin91
Fight IQ67

Strike zones

Strike zones

Justin Willis

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

HEAD83.4%ACC 57%BODY9.0%ACC 73%LEGS7.6%ACC 80%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 83.4% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +16.6 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
83.4% acc 57%+16.6 vs field
BODY
9.0% acc 73%−9.5 vs field
LEGS
7.6% acc 80%−7.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 80%CLINCH 7%GROUND 14%

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.

5 UFC fights · 211 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Justin Willis

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

0.96takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.96 landed per 15 minutes — −1.43 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS28
0.96 / 15m−1.43 vs field
ATTEMPTS18
1.45 / 15m−3.57 vs field
ACCURACY78
66%+15pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.65 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: 8-2. In the UFC: 4-1. Justin Willis’s last 5 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.

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