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Anthony Johnson

UFC 13-6Pro 22-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 13-6 first fight 2007-06-12 · last fight 2017-04-08
Pro record22-6
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W W W L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age42
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox power striker campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 13 UFC wins — 11 KO/TKO, 2 decision. Top 14% of Light Heavyweights: avoids 60% of the strikes thrown at him and absorbs only 1.83 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 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.

NicknameRumble
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Boca Raton, Florida
CampKill Cliff FC
Height6' 2"
Reach78"
StanceOrthodox
Age42
Date of birthMar 06, 1984
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record22-6
UFC recordUFC 13-6 first fight 2007-06-12 · last fight 2017-04-08
Finish split13 UFC wins — 11 KO/TKO, 2 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Anthony Johnson 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.

Anthony Johnson in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Light Heavyweight151 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 14 April 2014#1–5 · from the table of 28 April 2014No 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 2016First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#1Light Heavyweight · Jan 2015
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–5149on the published tables, title reigns aside
CurrentUnrankedsince Apr 2017

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 Anthony Johnson’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 / min3.25
Striking accuracy47%
Strikes absorbed / min1.83
Striking defence60%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.43
Takedown accuracy57%
Takedown defence77%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.60

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking58
Defence86
Grappling / TD63
Cardio48
Chin96
Fight IQ70

Strike zones

Strike zones

Anthony Johnson

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

HEAD66.9%ACC 40%BODY15.0%ACC 74%LEGS18.1%ACC 82%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 67% head / 15% body / 18% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
66.9% acc 40%+2.7 vs field
BODY
15.0% acc 74%−4.1 vs field
LEGS
18.1% acc 82%+1.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 56%CLINCH 18%GROUND 26%

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.

19 UFC fights · 381 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Anthony Johnson

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

2.43takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 2.43 takedowns per 15 minutes at 57% completion — +13pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS67
2.43 / 15m+0.11 vs field
ATTEMPTS50
4.26 / 15m−1.24 vs field
ACCURACY81
57%+13pp vs field
SUB ATT41
0.60 / 15m−1.00 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.25 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 Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 22-6. In the UFC: 13-6. Anthony Johnson’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

8 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night, 5 Performance of the Night, 2 Knockout of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2016-08-20POTNPerformance of the NightGlover TeixeiraUFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2
2016-01-30POTNPerformance of the NightRyan BaderUFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Bader
2015-09-05POTNPerformance of the NightJimi ManuwaUFC 191: Johnson vs Dodson 2
2015-01-24POTNPerformance of the NightAlexander GustafssonUFC on FOX: Gustafsson vs Johnson
2014-07-26POTNPerformance of the NightRogerio NogueiraUFC on FOX: Lawler vs Brown
2011-10-01KOTNKnockout of the NightCharlie BrennemanUFC Live: Cruz vs Johnson
2009-11-21FOTNFight of the NightJosh KoscheckUFC 106: Ortiz vs Griffin 2
2008-12-13KOTNKnockout of the NightKevin BurnsThe Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir Finale

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 — 19 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2017-04-08LDaniel CormierSubmissionR2UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2
2016-08-20WGlover TeixeiraKO/TKOR1UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2
2016-01-30WRyan BaderKO/TKOR1UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Bader
2015-09-05WJimi ManuwaKO/TKOR2UFC 191: Johnson vs Dodson 2
2015-05-23LDaniel CormierSubmissionR3UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier
2015-01-24WAlexander GustafssonKO/TKOR1UFC on FOX: Gustafsson vs Johnson
2014-07-26WRogerio NogueiraKO/TKOR1UFC on FOX: Lawler vs Brown
2014-04-26WPhil DavisDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 172: Jones vs Teixeira
2012-01-14LVitor BelfortSubmissionR1UFC 142: Aldo vs Mendes
2011-10-01WCharlie BrennemanKO/TKOR1UFC Live: Cruz vs Johnson
2011-03-26WDan HardyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Nogueira vs Davis
2009-11-21LJosh KoscheckSubmissionR2UFC 106: Ortiz vs Griffin 2
2009-10-24WYoshiyuki YoshidaKO/TKOR1UFC 104: Machida vs Shogun
2009-02-07WLuigi FioravantiKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Lauzon vs Stephens
2008-12-13WKevin BurnsKO/TKOR3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir Finale
2008-07-19LKevin BurnsKO/TKOR3UFC: Silva vs Irvin
2008-04-02WTommy SpeerKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Florian vs Lauzon
2007-09-22LRich ClementiSubmissionR2UFC 76: Knockout
2007-06-12WChad ReinerKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Stout vs Fisher

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 14 cities Anthony Johnson 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, 2008–2016Anaheim, California, USA — 1 bout, 2007Baltimore, Maryland, USA — 1 bout, 2014Broomfield, Colorado, USA — 1 bout, 2008Buffalo, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2017Hollywood, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2007Los Angeles, California, USA — 1 bout, 2009Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2016Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 1 bout, 2012San Jose, California, USA — 1 bout, 2014Seattle, Washington, USA — 1 bout, 2011Stockholm, Sweden — 1 bout, 2015Tampa, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2009Washington, DC, USA — 1 bout, 2011Camp: Kill Cliff FCHometown: Boca Raton, Florida

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

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