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Ben Nguyen

UFC 4-3Pro 16-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 4-3 first fight 2015-05-09 · last fight 2018-12-01
Pro record16-8
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W L
DivisionFlyweight
Age38
Height5' 5"
StanceSwitch

5' 5" switch all-rounder campaigning at Flyweight. 4 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 1 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameTen
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Sioux Falls, South Dakota
CampIntegrated MMA
Height5' 5"
Reach65"
StanceSwitch
Age38
Date of birthAug 03, 1988
Weight125 lbs.
Pro record16-8
UFC recordUFC 4-3 first fight 2015-05-09 · last fight 2018-12-01
Finish split4 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 1 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Ben Nguyen 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.

Ben Nguyen in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Flyweight101 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 18 April 2016#11–15 · from the table of 21 November 2016#11–15 · from the table of 1 February 2017#6–10 · from the table of 14 June 2017No table on record · Aug 2017 – Sep 2017#6–10 · from the table of 4 September 2017No table on record · Apr 2018 – May 2018#6–10 · from the table of 16 May 2018#11–15 · from the table of 23 May 2018No table on record · Aug 2018 – Aug 2018#11–15 · from the table of 29 August 2018No table on record · Oct 2018 – Oct 2018#11–15 · from the table of 31 October 2018#6–10 · from the table of 12 November 2018First rankedPeak #8Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#8Flyweight · Jun 2017
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Dec 2018

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 Ben Nguyen’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 / min3.51
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min3.01
Striking defence59%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.25
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence63%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Flyweight 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 Flyweight.
Striking50
Defence66
Grappling / TD36
Cardio79
Chin44
Fight IQ55

Strike zones

Strike zones

Ben Nguyen

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

HEAD69.1%ACC 34%BODY19.0%ACC 66%LEGS11.9%ACC 81%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 69.1% upstairs — +5.8 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
69.1% acc 34%+5.8 vs field
BODY
19.0% acc 66%−1.7 vs field
LEGS
11.9% acc 81%−4.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 78%CLINCH 15%GROUND 7%

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 · 210 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Ben Nguyen

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

0.25takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.25 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.92 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS1
0.25 / 15m−1.92 vs field
ATTEMPTS1
0.76 / 15m−4.87 vs field
ACCURACY44
33%−10pp vs field
SUB ATT63
1.00 / 15m−0.23 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.00 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 Flyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 16-8. In the UFC: 4-3. Ben Nguyen’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
2018-12-01LWilson ReisDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa
2018-02-10LJussier FormigaSubmissionR3UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold
2017-06-10WTim ElliottSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Hunt
2016-11-26WGeane HerreraDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Brunson
2016-07-13LLouis SmolkaKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: McDonald vs. Lineker
2015-11-14WRyan BenoitSubmissionR1UFC 193: Rousey vs Holm
2015-05-09WAlptekin OzkilicKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Miocic vs Hunt

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 5 cities Ben Nguyen 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.

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia — 2 bouts, 2015–2018Melbourne, Victoria, Australia — 2 bouts, 2015–2016Auckland, New Zealand — 1 bout, 2017Perth, Western Australia, Australia — 1 bout, 2018Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA — 1 bout, 2016Hometown: Sioux Falls, South Dakota

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

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