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Tom Watson
17-9tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Tom Watson’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record17-9
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age44
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision. Top 19% of Middleweights: lands 4.01 significant strikes a minute.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameKong
NationalityEngland
HometownSouthampton
Fighting out ofJackson-Wink MMA
Height6' 1"
Reach73.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age44
Date of birthJul 13, 1982
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record17-9
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Tom Watson’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 / min4.01
Striking accuracy44%
Strikes absorbed / min4.41
Striking defence50%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.15
Takedown accuracy7%
Takedown defence43%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking64
Defence36
Grappling / TD2
Cardio41
Chin94
Fight IQ47

Strike zones

Strike zones

Tom Watson

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

HEAD45.0%ACC 30%BODY22.0%ACC 58%LEGS33.0%ACC 85%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 33.0% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +17.1 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
45.0% acc 30%−18.6 vs field
BODY
22.0% acc 58%+1.4 vs field
LEGS
33.0% acc 85%+17.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 72%CLINCH 26%GROUND 2%

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.

7 UFC fights · 400 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Tom Watson

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

0.15takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.15 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.12 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS2
0.15 / 15m−2.12 vs field
ATTEMPTS24
2.14 / 15m−3.18 vs field
ACCURACY1
7%−40pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.56 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 17-9. In the UFC: 2-5. Tom Watson’s last 7 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 — 7 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2015-08-08LChris CamozziDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs Saint Preux
2015-01-31LRafael NatalDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 183: Silva vs Diaz
2014-08-16WSam AlveyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Bader vs Saint Preux
2014-02-01LNick CatoneDecision (split)R3UFC 169: Barao vs Faber 2
2013-08-03LThales LeitesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 163: Aldo vs Jung
2013-02-16WStanislav NedkovKO/TKOR2UFC on FUEL TV: Barao vs McDonald
2012-09-29LBrad TavaresDecision (split)R3UFC on FUEL TV: Struve vs Miocic

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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