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Tafon Nchukwi
6-4tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Tafon Nchukwi’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Volume boxer

Pro record6-4
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age31
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox volume boxer campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 2 UFC wins — 2 decision. Top 7% of Light Heavyweights: lands 5.57 significant strikes a minute and completes 57% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameDa Don
NationalityCameroon
HometownBamenda
Fighting out ofTeam Lloyd Irvin
Height6' 0"
Reach77.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age31
Date of birthOct 14, 1994
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record6-4
Finish split2 UFC wins — 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Tafon Nchukwi’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 / min5.57
Striking accuracy52%
Strikes absorbed / min4.11
Striking defence54%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.76
Takedown accuracy57%
Takedown defence64%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

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.
Striking83
Defence52
Grappling / TD52
Cardio31
Chin34
Fight IQ50

Our calls on Tafon Nchukwi’s fights

We have not called one of Tafon Nchukwi’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 1 of Tafon Nchukwi’s fights, 0 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

Tafon Nchukwi

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

HEAD49.8%ACC 42%BODY32.6%ACC 74%LEGS17.6%ACC 81%
FightIQ read Body puncher 32.6% of his landed strikes go to the body — +13.4 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
49.8% acc 42%−14.0 vs field
BODY
32.6% acc 74%+13.4 vs field
LEGS
17.6% acc 81%+0.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 70%CLINCH 27%GROUND 3%

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.

6 UFC fights · 393 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Tafon Nchukwi

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

0.76takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.76 takedowns and 0.00 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS23
0.76 / 15m−1.51 vs field
ATTEMPTS10
1.33 / 15m−4.10 vs field
ACCURACY81
57%+14pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.59 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: 6-4. In the UFC: 2-4. Tafon Nchukwi’s last 6 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 — 6 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2023-08-12LAJ DobsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Dos Anjos
2022-06-25LCarlos UlbergKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Gamrot
2022-03-12LAzamat MurzakanovKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Ankalaev
2021-09-18WMike RodriguezDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann
2021-05-08LJunYong ParkDecision (majority)R3UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Waterson
2020-12-19WJamie PickettDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Neal

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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