Built from Tony Ferguson’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler
5' 11" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Lightweight. 15 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 6 submission, 4 decision. Top 13% of Lightweights: lands 4.91 significant strikes a minute.
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.
| Nickname | El Cucuy |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown | Oxnard, California |
| Fighting out of | Knuckleheadz MMA |
| Height | 5' 11" |
| Reach | 76.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 42 |
| Date of birth | Feb 12, 1984 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 26-11 |
| Finish split | 15 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 6 submission, 4 decision |
Career averages over Tony Ferguson’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.
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.
We have not called one of Tony Ferguson’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.
Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Tony Ferguson’s fights, 3 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.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
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.
Pro record: 26-11. In the UFC: 15-9. Tony Ferguson’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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-03 | L | Michael Chiesa | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov |
| 2023-12-16 | L | Paddy Pimblett | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington |
| 2023-07-29 | L | King Green | Submission | R3 | UFC 291: Poirier vs. Gaethje 2 |
| 2022-09-10 | L | Nate Diaz | Submission | R4 | UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson |
| 2022-05-07 | L | Michael Chandler | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje |
| 2021-05-15 | L | Beneil Dariush | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 262: Oliveira vs. Chandler |
| 2020-12-12 | L | Charles Oliveira | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 256: Figueiredo vs. Moreno |
| 2020-05-09 | L | Justin Gaethje | KO/TKO | R5 | UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje |
| 2019-06-08 | W | Donald Cerrone | TKO (doctor) | R2 | UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes |
| 2018-10-06 | W | Anthony Pettis | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor |
| 2017-10-07 | W | Kevin Lee | Submission | R3 | UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee |
| 2016-11-05 | W | Rafael Dos Anjos | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Ferguson |
| 2016-07-13 | W | Lando Vannata | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: McDonald vs. Lineker |
| 2015-12-11 | W | Edson Barboza | Submission | R2 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber Finale |
| 2015-07-15 | W | Josh Thomson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Mir vs Duffee |
| 2015-02-28 | W | Gleison Tibau | Submission | R1 | UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano |
| 2014-12-06 | W | Abel Trujillo | Submission | R2 | UFC 181: Hendricks vs Lawler II |
| 2014-08-30 | W | Danny Castillo | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 177: Dillashaw vs Soto |
| 2014-05-24 | W | Katsunori Kikuno | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 173: Barao vs Dillashaw |
| 2013-10-19 | W | Mike Rio | Submission | R1 | UFC 166: Velasquez vs Dos Santos 3 |
| 2012-05-05 | L | Michael Johnson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Diaz vs Miller |
| 2011-12-03 | W | Yves Edwards | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs Team Miller Finale |
| 2011-09-24 | W | Aaron Riley | TKO (doctor) | R1 | UFC 135: Jones vs Rampage |
| 2011-06-04 | W | Ramsey Nijem | KO/TKO | R1 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs Team dos Santos Finale |
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.