Built from Stephen Thompson’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher
6' 0" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Welterweight. 12 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 6 decision. Top 20% of Welterweights: lands 4.05 significant strikes a minute.
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.
| Nickname | Wonderboy |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown | Simpsonville, South Carolina |
| Fighting out of | pending |
| Height | 6' 0" |
| Reach | 75.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 43 |
| Date of birth | Feb 11, 1983 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 17-9-1 |
| Finish split | 12 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 6 decision |
Career averages over Stephen Thompson’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.
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.
We have not called one of Stephen Thompson’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.
Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Stephen Thompson’s fights, 3 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.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
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.
Pro record: 17-9-1. In the UFC: 12-9-1. Stephen Thompson’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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-12 | L | Gabriel Bonfim | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Teixeira |
| 2024-10-05 | L | Joaquin Buckley | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr. |
| 2023-12-16 | L | Shavkat Rakhmonov | Submission | R2 | UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington |
| 2022-12-03 | W | Kevin Holland | KO/TKO | R4 | UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland |
| 2021-12-18 | L | Belal Muhammad | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus |
| 2021-07-10 | L | Gilbert Burns | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3 |
| 2020-12-19 | W | Geoff Neal | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Neal |
| 2019-11-02 | W | Vicente Luque | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 244: Masvidal vs. Diaz |
| 2019-03-23 | L | Anthony Pettis | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Pettis |
| 2018-05-27 | L | Darren Till | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Till |
| 2017-11-04 | W | Jorge Masvidal | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 217: Bisping vs. St-Pierre |
| 2017-03-04 | L | Tyron Woodley | Decision (majority) | R5 | UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2 |
| 2016-11-12 | D | Tyron Woodley | Decision (majority) | R5 | UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor |
| 2016-06-18 | W | Rory MacDonald | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs Thompson |
| 2016-02-06 | W | Johny Hendricks | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs Thompson |
| 2015-07-12 | W | Jake Ellenberger | KO/TKO | R1 | The Ultimate Fighter: American Top Team vs. Blackzilians Finale |
| 2014-09-27 | W | Patrick Cote | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 178: Johnson vs Cariaso |
| 2014-02-22 | W | Robert Whittaker | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 170: Rousey vs McMann |
| 2013-09-21 | W | Chris Clements | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 165: Jones vs Gustafsson |
| 2013-05-25 | W | Nah-Shon Burrell | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2 |
| 2012-04-21 | L | Matt Brown | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 145: Jones vs Evans |
| 2012-02-04 | W | Dan Stittgen | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 143: Diaz vs Condit |
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.