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Alistair Overeem

UFC 12-8Pro 47-19tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Alistair Overeem’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

UFC recordUFC 12-8 first fight 2011-12-30 · last fight 2021-02-06
Pro record47-19
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W W L W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age46
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox power striker campaigning at Heavyweight. 12 UFC wins — 9 KO/TKO, 3 decision. Top 9% of Heavyweights: connects with 64% of his significant strikes and avoids 57% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameThe Demolition Man
NationalityNetherlands
Hometown (per Sherdog)Amsterdam
CampElevation Fight Team
Height6' 4"
Reach80"
StanceOrthodox
Age46
Date of birthMay 17, 1980
Weight265 lbs.
Pro record47-19
UFC recordUFC 12-8 first fight 2011-12-30 · last fight 2021-02-06
Finish split12 UFC wins — 9 KO/TKO, 3 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Alistair Overeem has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Alistair Overeem in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Heavyweight390 weeks on the tables#6–10 · from the table of 4 February 2013#1–5 · from the table of 8 April 2013No table on record · May 2013 – May 2013#1–5 · from the table of 21 May 2013#6–10 · from the table of 28 May 2013#1–5 · from the table of 18 June 2013#6–10 · from the table of 19 August 2013#11–15 · from the table of 15 September 2014#6–10 · from the table of 24 February 2015#1–5 · from the table of 21 December 2015No table on record · Mar 2016 – Apr 2016#1–5 · from the table of 12 April 2016No table on record · Oct 2016 – Nov 2016#1–5 · from the table of 7 November 2016No table on record · Aug 2017 – Sep 2017#1–5 · from the table of 4 September 2017No table on record · Apr 2018 – May 2018#1–5 · from the table of 16 May 2018#6–10 · from the table of 11 July 2018No table on record · Aug 2018 – Aug 2018#6–10 · from the table of 29 August 2018No table on record · Oct 2018 – Oct 2018#6–10 · from the table of 31 October 2018No table on record · Nov 2019 – Dec 2019#6–10 · from the table of 10 December 2019No table on record · Dec 2019 – Jan 2020#6–10 · from the table of 20 January 2020No table on record · Mar 2020 – May 2020#6–10 · from the table of 11 May 2020#1–5 · from the table of 31 August 2020No table on record · Dec 2020 – Jan 2021#1–5 · from the table of 18 January 2021#6–10 · from the table of 8 February 2021First rankedPeak #1Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#1Heavyweight · Jul 2017
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–5157on the published tables, title reigns aside
CurrentUnrankedsince Mar 2021

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 6 October 2026

A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.

Career rates facts

Career averages over Alistair Overeem’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 / min3.67
Striking accuracy64%
Strikes absorbed / min2.44
Striking defence57%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.42
Takedown accuracy55%
Takedown defence73%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

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.
Striking82
Defence78
Grappling / TD54
Cardio39
Chin12
Fight IQ53

Strike zones

Strike zones

Alistair Overeem

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

HEAD54.0%ACC 65%BODY32.3%ACC 88%LEGS13.7%ACC 92%
FightIQ read Body puncher 32.3% of his landed strikes go to the body — +13.8 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
54.0% acc 65%−13.0 vs field
BODY
32.3% acc 88%+13.8 vs field
LEGS
13.7% acc 92%−0.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 44%CLINCH 20%GROUND 36%

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.

20 UFC fights · 715 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Alistair Overeem

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

1.42takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.42 landed per 15 minutes — −0.97 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS48
1.42 / 15m−0.97 vs field
ATTEMPTS33
2.58 / 15m−2.48 vs field
ACCURACY68
55%+4pp vs field
SUB ATT46
0.80 / 15m−0.91 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.29 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: 47-19. In the UFC: 12-8. Alistair Overeem’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 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2016-09-10FOTNFight of the NightStipe MiocicUFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem
2016-05-08POTNPerformance of the NightAndrei ArlovskiUFC Fight Night: Overeem vs Arlovski

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 — 20 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2021-02-06LAlexander VolkovKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov
2020-09-05WAugusto SakaiKO/TKOR5UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai
2020-05-16WWalt HarrisKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Harris
2019-12-07LJairzinho RozenstruikKO/TKOR5UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Rozenstruik
2019-04-20WAleksei OleinikKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Oleinik
2018-11-24WSergei PavlovichKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Ngannou 2
2018-06-09LCurtis BlaydesKO/TKOR3UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2
2017-12-02LFrancis NgannouKO/TKOR1UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2
2017-07-08WFabricio WerdumDecision (majority)R3UFC 213: Romero vs. Whittaker
2017-03-04WMark HuntKO/TKOR3UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2
2016-09-10LStipe MiocicKO/TKOR1UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem
2016-05-08WAndrei ArlovskiKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs Arlovski
2015-12-19WJunior Dos SantosKO/TKOR2UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2
2015-03-14WRoy NelsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 185: Pettis vs Dos Anjos
2014-12-13WStefan StruveKO/TKOR1UFC on FOX: Dos Santos vs Miocic
2014-09-05LBen RothwellKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs Mousasi
2014-02-01WFrank MirDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 169: Barao vs Faber 2
2013-08-17LTravis BrowneKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Sonnen
2013-02-02LAntonio SilvaKO/TKOR3UFC 156: Aldo vs Edgar
2011-12-30WBrock LesnarKO/TKOR1UFC 141: Lesnar vs Overeem

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 15 cities Alistair Overeem has fought a UFC bout in, the camp on the record 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 — 6 bouts, 2011–2021Beijing, China — 1 bout, 2018Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 1 bout, 2013Chicago, Illinois, USA — 1 bout, 2018Cleveland, Ohio, USA — 1 bout, 2016Dallas, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2015Detroit, Michigan, USA — 1 bout, 2017Jacksonville, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2020Ledyard, Connecticut, USA — 1 bout, 2014Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2014Orlando, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2015Phoenix, Arizona, USA — 1 bout, 2014Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands — 1 bout, 2016Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia — 1 bout, 2019Washington, DC, USA — 1 bout, 2019Camp: Elevation Fight TeamHometown: Amsterdam

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

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