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Marcus Jones
4-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Marcus Jones’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Wrestler

Pro record4-2
Current streak1 loss
Last 1 (UFC)L
DivisionHeavyweight
Age53
Height6' 6"
StanceOrthodox

6' 6" orthodox wrestler campaigning at Heavyweight. Top 3% of Heavyweights: averages 8.71 takedowns per 15 minutes and averages 2.9 submission attempts per 15 minutes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Darkness
NationalityUnited States
HometownTampa, Florida
Fighting out ofpending
Height6' 6"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age53
Date of birthAug 15, 1973
Weight265 lbs.
Pro record4-2
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Marcus Jones’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 / min1.94
Striking accuracy52%
Strikes absorbed / min2.71
Striking defence58%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min8.71
Takedown accuracy75%
Takedown defence0%
Sub attempts / 15 min2.90

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.
Striking53
Defence76
Grappling / TD90
Cardio No round past the first on our tapen/a
Chin limited sample19
Fight IQ60

Strike zones

Strike zones

Marcus Jones

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

HEAD60.0%FIELD 67%BODY10.0%FIELD 18%LEGS30.0%FIELD 15%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 30.0% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +15.3 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
60.0%−6.8 vs field
BODY
10.0%−8.5 vs field
LEGS
30.0%+15.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 60%CLINCH 40%GROUND 0%

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.

Limited sample1 UFC fights · 10 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Marcus Jones

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

8.71takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 8.71 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +6.32 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS97
8.71 / 15m+6.32 vs field
ATTEMPTS94
11.61 / 15m+6.59 vs field
ACCURACY84
75%+24pp vs field
SUB ATT89
2.90 / 15m+1.25 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: 4-2. In the UFC: 0-1. Marcus Jones’s last 1 UFC bout, 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 — 1 bout every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2009-12-05LMatt MitrioneKO/TKOR2The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights 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.

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