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Melvin Guillard
32-18-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Melvin Guillard’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

Pro record32-18-2
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L D W L L
DivisionLightweight
Age43
Height5' 9"
StanceOrthodox

5' 9" orthodox power striker campaigning at Lightweight. 12 UFC wins — 8 KO/TKO, 4 decision. Top 7% of Lightweights: avoids 66% of the strikes thrown at him and completes 63% of his takedown attempts.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Young Assassin
NationalityUnited States
HometownNew Orleans, Louisiana
Fighting out ofGenesis Training Cente
Height5' 9"
Reach71.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age43
Date of birthMar 30, 1983
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record32-18-2
Finish split12 UFC wins — 8 KO/TKO, 4 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Melvin Guillard’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 / min2.96
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min1.85
Striking defence66%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.30
Takedown accuracy63%
Takedown defence61%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

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.
Striking48
Defence90
Grappling / TD45
Cardio13
Chin68
Fight IQ53

Strike zones

Strike zones

Melvin Guillard

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

HEAD67.0%ACC 32%BODY20.1%ACC 67%LEGS12.9%ACC 88%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 67% head / 20% body / 13% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
67.0% acc 32%+4.9 vs field
BODY
20.1% acc 67%−0.7 vs field
LEGS
12.9% acc 88%−4.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 70%CLINCH 13%GROUND 17%

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.

22 UFC fights · 448 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Melvin Guillard

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

1.30takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.30 landed per 15 minutes — −0.83 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS37
1.30 / 15m−0.83 vs field
ATTEMPTS19
2.06 / 15m−3.34 vs field
ACCURACY86
63%+19pp vs field
SUB ATT11
0.20 / 15m−1.10 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: 32-18-2. In the UFC: 12-9-1. Melvin Guillard’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.

Full UFC career — 22 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2014-03-08LMichael JohnsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs Manuwa
2013-10-26DRoss PearsonCould not continueR1UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Munoz
2013-07-27WMac DanzigKO/TKOR2UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Moraga
2012-12-29LJamie VarnerDecision (split)R3UFC 155: Dos Santos vs Velasquez II
2012-08-11LDonald CerroneKO/TKOR1UFC 150: Henderson vs Edgar II
2012-07-07WFabricio CamoesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 148: Silva vs Sonnen 2
2012-01-20LJim MillerSubmissionR1UFC on FX: Guillard vs Miller
2011-10-08LJoe LauzonSubmissionR1UFC 136: Edgar vs Maynard 3
2011-07-02WShane RollerKO/TKOR1UFC 132: Cruz vs Faber
2011-01-22WEvan DunhamKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Fight for the Troops 2
2010-09-25WJeremy StephensDecision (split)R3UFC 119: Mir vs Cro Cop
2010-05-29WWaylon LoweKO/TKOR1UFC 114: Rampage vs Evans
2010-02-06WRonys TorresDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 109: Relentless
2009-09-16LNate DiazSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Guillard
2009-06-20WGleison TibauDecision (split)R3The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale
2008-07-05WDennis SiverKO/TKOR1UFC 86: Jackson vs Griffin
2007-12-29LRich ClementiSubmissionR1UFC 79: Nemesis
2007-04-05LJoe StevensonSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Stevenson vs Guillard
2006-09-23WGabe RuedigerKO/TKOR2UFC 63: Hughes vs Penn
2006-05-27WRick DavisKO/TKOR1UFC 60: Hughes vs Gracie
2006-01-16LJosh NeerSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night 3
2005-11-05WMarcus DavisTKO (doctor)R2The 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.

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