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Paul Craig
17-10-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Paul Craig’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler

Pro record17-10-1
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L D L L L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age38
Height6' 3"
StanceOrthodox

6' 3" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 9 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 6 submission.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameBearjew
NationalityScotland
HometownCoatbridge
Fighting out ofScottish Hit Squad
Height6' 3"
Reach76.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age38
Date of birthNov 27, 1987
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record17-10-1
Finish split9 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 6 submission

Career rates facts

Career averages over Paul Craig’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 / min2.50
Striking accuracy45%
Strikes absorbed / min3.04
Striking defence43%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.43
Takedown accuracy18%
Takedown defence35%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.30

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.
Striking48
Defence46
Grappling / TD42
Cardio27
Chin36
Fight IQ40

Our calls on Paul Craig’s fights

We have not called one of Paul Craig’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 6 of Paul Craig’s fights, 5 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Paul Craig

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

HEAD50.1%ACC 31%BODY31.6%ACC 65%LEGS18.3%ACC 84%
FightIQ read Body puncher 31.6% of his landed strikes go to the body — +12.4 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
50.1% acc 31%−13.7 vs field
BODY
31.6% acc 65%+12.4 vs field
LEGS
18.3% acc 84%+1.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 67%CLINCH 14%GROUND 19%

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.

21 UFC fights · 421 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Paul Craig

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

1.43takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.43 landed per 15 minutes — −0.84 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS46
1.43 / 15m−0.84 vs field
ATTEMPTS79
7.94 / 15m+2.51 vs field
ACCURACY8
18%−25pp vs field
SUB ATT71
1.30 / 15m−0.29 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: 17-10-1. In the UFC: 9-10-2. Paul Craig’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.

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