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Abel Trujillo

UFC 6-4 (1 draw/NC)Pro 15-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Abel Trujillo’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher

UFC recordUFC 6-4 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2012-12-08 · last fight 2017-12-16
Pro record15-8
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W W
DivisionLightweight
Age43
Height5' 8"
StanceOrthodox

5' 8" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Lightweight. 6 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 1 decision, 1 other.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameKilla
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Des Moines, Iowa
Camppending
Height5' 8"
Reach70"
StanceOrthodox
Age43
Date of birthSep 18, 1983
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record15-8
UFC recordUFC 6-4 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2012-12-08 · last fight 2017-12-16
Finish split6 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 1 decision, 1 other
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Abel Trujillo’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 / min2.65
Striking accuracy41%
Strikes absorbed / min2.31
Striking defence59%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.18
Takedown accuracy45%
Takedown defence40%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

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.
Striking46
Defence76
Grappling / TD52
Cardio35
Chin81
Fight IQ58

Strike zones

Strike zones

Abel Trujillo

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

HEAD71.4%ACC 34%BODY21.6%ACC 79%LEGS7.0%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 71.4% upstairs — +9.3 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
71.4% acc 34%+9.3 vs field
BODY
21.6% acc 79%+0.8 vs field
LEGS
7.0%−10.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 53%CLINCH 23%GROUND 24%

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.

11 UFC fights · 273 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Abel Trujillo

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

2.18takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 2.18 takedowns per 15 minutes at 45% completion — +2pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS64
2.18 / 15m−0.04 vs field
ATTEMPTS53
4.84 / 15m−0.71 vs field
ACCURACY65
45%+2pp vs field
SUB ATT27
0.40 / 15m−0.91 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.19 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: 15-8. In the UFC: 6-4-1. Abel Trujillo’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.

Post-fight bonuses

2 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night, 1 Knockout of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2014-02-01KOTNKnockout of the NightJamie VarnerUFC 169: Barao vs Faber 2
2014-02-01FOTNFight of the NightJamie VarnerUFC 169: Barao vs Faber 2

The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.

Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 245 of 1,339 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.

Full UFC career — 11 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2017-12-16LJohn MakdessiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Lawler vs. Dos Anjos
2017-02-04LJames VickSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Bermudez vs. The Korean Zombie
2016-05-29WJordan RinaldiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs Garbrandt
2016-01-02WTony SimsSubmissionR1UFC 195: Lawler vs Condit
2015-11-07WGleison TibauDQR1UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs Henderson 3
2014-12-06LTony FergusonSubmissionR2UFC 181: Hendricks vs Lawler II
2014-02-01WJamie VarnerKO/TKOR2UFC 169: Barao vs Faber 2
2013-12-14WRoger BowlingKO/TKOR2UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Benavidez 2
2013-08-28DRoger BowlingCould not continueR2UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann 2
2013-05-25LKhabib NurmagomedovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2
2012-12-08WMarcus LeVesseurKO/TKOR2UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Diaz

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.

On the map

The 8 cities Abel Trujillo has fought a UFC bout in and the hometown on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 4 bouts, 2013–2016Houston, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2017Indianapolis, Indiana, USA — 1 bout, 2013Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2014Sacramento, California, USA — 1 bout, 2013Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil — 1 bout, 2015Seattle, Washington, USA — 1 bout, 2012Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada — 1 bout, 2017Hometown: Des Moines, Iowa

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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