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Mike Whitehead
27-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Mike Whitehead’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder

Pro record27-8
Current streak1 loss
Last 1 (UFC)L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age45
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Light Heavyweight. Top 17% of Light Heavyweights: averages 3.59 takedowns per 15 minutes and avoids 59% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
HometownSalt Lake City, Utah
Fighting out ofXtreme Couture
Height6' 1"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age45
Date of birthJun 29, 1981
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record27-8
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Mike Whitehead’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 / min1.62
Striking accuracy33%
Strikes absorbed / min2.36
Striking defence59%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.59
Takedown accuracy43%
Takedown defence77%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.30

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking24
Defence78
Grappling / TD53
Cardio limited sample63
Chin limited sample76
Fight IQ59

Strike zones

Strike zones

Mike Whitehead

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

HEAD55.6%ACC 26%BODY29.6%FIELD 19%LEGS14.8%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 56% head / 30% body / 15% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
55.6% acc 26%−8.2 vs field
BODY
29.6%+10.4 vs field
LEGS
14.8%−2.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 82%CLINCH 11%GROUND 7%

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 · 27 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Mike Whitehead

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

3.59takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.59 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.32 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS83
3.59 / 15m+1.32 vs field
ATTEMPTS81
8.35 / 15m+2.92 vs field
ACCURACY56
43%−0pp vs field
SUB ATT20
0.30 / 15m−1.29 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.96 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 Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 27-8. In the UFC: 0-1. Mike Whitehead’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
2006-02-04LKeith JardineDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 57: Liddell vs Couture 3

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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