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Tai Tuivasa
15-10tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Tai Tuivasa’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

Pro record15-10
Current streak7 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L L
DivisionHeavyweight
Age33
Height6' 2"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 2" southpaw power striker campaigning at Heavyweight. 8 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 1 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameBam Bam
NationalityAustralia
HometownSydney, New South Wales
Fighting out ofLions High Performance Centre
Height6' 2"
Reach75.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age33
Date of birthMar 16, 1993
Weight264 lbs.
Pro record15-10
Finish split8 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Tai Tuivasa’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 / min3.37
Striking accuracy48%
Strikes absorbed / min4.61
Striking defence42%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.00
Takedown accuracy0%
Takedown defence58%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the 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 Heavyweight.
Striking62
Defence32
Grappling / TDn/a
Cardio49
Chin40
Fight IQ46

Our calls on Tai Tuivasa’s fights

Every fight of Tai Tuivasa’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 2 of Tai Tuivasa’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–1 — 50% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-05-02Louie SutherlandTai Tuivasa54.3%Missed
2026-01-31Tallison TeixeiraTallison Teixeira (against Tuivasa)81.1%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Tai Tuivasa’s fights, 2 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

Tai Tuivasa

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

HEAD59.1%ACC 39%BODY17.5%ACC 75%LEGS23.4%ACC 73%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 23.4% to the legs — +8.7 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
59.1% acc 39%−7.7 vs field
BODY
17.5% acc 75%−1.0 vs field
LEGS
23.4% acc 73%+8.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 71%CLINCH 24%GROUND 5%

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.

18 UFC fights · 491 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Tai Tuivasa

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

0.00takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.00 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.39 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m−2.39 vs field
ATTEMPTS
Attempts per 15 needs both a landed rate and a completion rate; one of them is missing, so we do not divide.
n/a
ACCURACY
No takedown attempt on the record — UFCStats writes 0% here, which is not a completion rate.
n/a
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.65 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 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 Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 15-10. In the UFC: 8-10. Tai Tuivasa’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.

Full UFC career — 18 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-05-02LLouie SutherlandDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs. Prates
2026-01-31LTallison TeixeiraDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 325: Volkanovski vs. Lopes 2
2024-08-17LJairzinho RozenstruikDecision (split)R3UFC 305: Du Plessis vs. Adesanya
2024-03-16LMarcin TyburaSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Tuivasa vs. Tybura
2023-09-09LAlexander VolkovSubmissionR2UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland
2022-12-03LSergei PavlovichKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland
2022-09-03LCiryl GaneKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa
2022-02-12WDerrick LewisKO/TKOR2UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2
2021-12-11WAugusto SakaiKO/TKOR2UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier
2021-07-10WGreg HardyKO/TKOR1UFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3
2021-03-20WHarry HunsuckerKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Holland
2020-10-24WStefan StruveKO/TKOR1UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje
2019-10-05LSerghei SpivacSubmissionR2UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya
2019-06-08LBlagoy IvanovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes
2018-12-01LJunior Dos SantosKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa
2018-06-09WAndrei ArlovskiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2
2018-02-10WCyril AskerKO/TKOR1UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold
2017-11-18WRashad CoulterKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Tybura

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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