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William Knight
11-5tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record11-5
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age38
Height5' 10"
StanceOrthodox

5' 10" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Heavyweight. 3 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 2 decision. Top 19% of Heavyweights: 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameKnightmare
NationalityUnited States
HometownHartford, Connecticut
Fighting out ofThornton Martial Arts
Height5' 10"
Reach73.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age38
Date of birthApr 03, 1988
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record11-5
Finish split3 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over William Knight’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 / min2.62
Striking accuracy56%
Strikes absorbed / min3.30
Striking defence35%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.78
Takedown accuracy40%
Takedown defence48%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

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.
Striking66
Defence34
Grappling / TD41
Cardio39
Chin69
Fight IQ50

Our calls on William Knight’s fights

We have not called one of William Knight’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 1 of William Knight’s fights, 0 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

William Knight

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

HEAD52.3%ACC 40%BODY16.7%ACC 47%LEGS31.0%ACC 64%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 31.0% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +16.3 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
52.3% acc 40%−14.5 vs field
BODY
16.7% acc 47%−1.8 vs field
LEGS
31.0% acc 64%+16.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 67%CLINCH 17%GROUND 17%

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 · 174 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

William Knight

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

1.78takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.78 landed per 15 minutes — −0.61 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS55
1.78 / 15m−0.61 vs field
ATTEMPTS56
4.45 / 15m−0.57 vs field
ACCURACY41
40%−11pp vs field
SUB ATT26
0.40 / 15m−1.25 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: 11-5. In the UFC: 3-4. William Knight’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
2023-02-18LMarcin PrachnioDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Blanchfield
2022-04-16LDevin ClarkKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Muhammad
2022-02-12LMaxim GrishinDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2
2021-12-04WAlonzo MenifieldDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Aldo
2021-08-21WFabio CherantKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Gastelum
2021-04-10LDa Woon JungDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Holland
2020-09-26WAleksa CamurDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa

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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