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Ryan Thomas
20-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record20-8
Current streak2 losses
Last 2 (UFC)L L
DivisionWelterweight
Age41
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox wrestler campaigning at Welterweight. Top 4% of Welterweights: averages 5.59 takedowns per 15 minutes and averages 2.2 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Tank Engine
NationalityUnited States
HometownDanville, Illinois
Fighting out ofAmerican Top Team
Height6' 0"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age41
Date of birthNov 05, 1984
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record20-8
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Ryan Thomas’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 / min2.01
Striking accuracy36%
Strikes absorbed / min4.17
Striking defence30%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min5.59
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence0%
Sub attempts / 15 min2.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight 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 Welterweight.
Striking26
Defence16
Grappling / TD72
Cardio Round-2 tape only limited sample82
Chin limited sample43
Fight IQ48

Strike zones

Strike zones

Ryan Thomas

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

HEAD55.6%ACC 26%BODY25.9%FIELD 21%LEGS18.5%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 56% head / 26% body / 18% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
55.6% acc 26%−6.7 vs field
BODY
25.9%+4.8 vs field
LEGS
18.5%+1.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 44%CLINCH 18%GROUND 37%

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 sample2 UFC fights · 27 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Ryan Thomas

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

5.59takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 5.59 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +3.60 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS96
5.59 / 15m+3.60 vs field
ATTEMPTS99
16.94 / 15m+12.00 vs field
ACCURACY34
33%−13pp vs field
SUB ATT87
2.20 / 15m+0.88 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 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 Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 20-8. In the UFC: 0-2. Ryan Thomas’s last 2 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 — 2 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2008-11-15LMatt BrownSubmissionR2UFC 91: Couture vs Lesnar
2008-08-09LBen SaundersSubmissionR2UFC 87: Seek And Destroy

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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