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Themba Gorimbo
14-7tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Themba Gorimbo’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Wrestle-grinder

Pro record14-7
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W W
DivisionWelterweight
Age35
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox wrestle-grinder campaigning at Welterweight. 4 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 3 decision. Top 6% of Welterweights: averages 4.52 takedowns per 15 minutes and connects with 56% of his significant strikes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Answer
NationalityZimbabwe
HometownMasvingo
Fighting out ofMMA Masters
Height6' 1"
Reach77.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age35
Date of birthJan 23, 1991
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record14-7
Finish split4 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Themba Gorimbo’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 / min2.70
Striking accuracy56%
Strikes absorbed / min1.75
Striking defence51%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min4.52
Takedown accuracy62%
Takedown defence73%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

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.
Striking70
Defence68
Grappling / TD67
Cardio47
Chin95
Fight IQ69

Our calls on Themba Gorimbo’s fights

Every fight of Themba Gorimbo’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 1 of Themba Gorimbo’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% 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
2026-05-02Jonathan MicallefJonathan Micallef (against Gorimbo)62.8%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 7 of Themba Gorimbo’s fights, 6 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

Themba Gorimbo

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

HEAD52.2%ACC 43%BODY30.8%ACC 80%LEGS17.0%ACC 97%
FightIQ read Body puncher 30.8% of his landed strikes go to the body — +9.7 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
52.2% acc 43%−10.1 vs field
BODY
30.8% acc 80%+9.7 vs field
LEGS
17.0% acc 97%+0.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 55%CLINCH 25%GROUND 20%

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.

8 UFC fights · 224 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Themba Gorimbo

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

4.52takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 4.52 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +2.53 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS94
4.52 / 15m+2.53 vs field
ATTEMPTS79
7.29 / 15m+2.35 vs field
ACCURACY82
62%+16pp vs field
SUB ATT25
0.40 / 15m−0.92 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: 14-7. In the UFC: 4-4. Themba Gorimbo’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 — 8 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-05-02LJonathan MicallefDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs. Prates
2025-11-01LJeremiah WellsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Garcia vs. Onama
2024-12-07LVicente LuqueSubmissionR1UFC 310: Pantoja vs. Asakura
2024-10-12WNiko PriceDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Taira
2024-05-18WRamiz BrahimajDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Murphy
2024-02-03WPete RodriguezKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Imavov
2023-05-20WTakashi SatoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Hill
2023-02-18LAJ FletcherSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Blanchfield

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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