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TJ O'Brien
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FightIQ’s profile

Built from TJ O'Brien’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record20-8
Current streak2 losses
Last 2 (UFC)L L
DivisionLightweight
Age39
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. Best of Lightweights: completes 100% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Spider
Nationalitypending
Hometownpending
Fighting out ofpending
Height6' 2"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age39
Date of birthJan 01, 1987
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record20-8
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over TJ O'Brien’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 / min3.77
Striking accuracy46%
Strikes absorbed / min4.78
Striking defence57%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.94
Takedown accuracy100%
Takedown defence0%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight 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 Lightweight.
Striking69
Defence44
Grappling / TD62
Cardio Round-2 tape only limited sample25
Chin limited sample8
Fight IQ42

Strike zones

Strike zones

TJ O'Brien

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

HEAD46.7%ACC 32%BODY15.0%FIELD 21%LEGS38.3%ACC 82%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 38.3% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +21.2 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
46.7% acc 32%−15.4 vs field
BODY
15.0%−5.8 vs field
LEGS
38.3% acc 82%+21.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 93%CLINCH 0%GROUND 7%

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 · 60 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

TJ O'Brien

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

0.94takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.94 landed per 15 minutes — −1.19 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS24
0.94 / 15m−1.19 vs field
ATTEMPTS6
0.94 / 15m−4.46 vs field
ACCURACY100
100%+56pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.30 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.22 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 Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 20-8. In the UFC: 0-2. TJ O'Brien’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.

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