Built from Brandon Vera’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher
6' 3" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 8 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 decision. Top 19% of Light Heavyweights: connects with 56% of his significant strikes.
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.
| Nickname | The Truth |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown (per Sherdog) | San Diego, California |
| Camp | Alliance MMA |
| Height | 6' 3" |
| Reach | 78" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 49 |
| Date of birth | Oct 10, 1977 |
| Weight | 230 lbs. |
| Pro record | 15-7 |
| UFC record | UFC 8-7 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2005-10-03 · last fight 2013-08-31 |
| Finish split | 8 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 decision |
| Social |
Career averages over Brandon Vera’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.
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.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
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.
Pro record: 15-7. In the UFC: 8-7-1. Brandon Vera’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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-08-31 | L | Ben Rothwell | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 164: Henderson vs Pettis 2 |
| 2012-08-04 | L | Mauricio Rua | KO/TKO | R4 | UFC on FOX: Shogun vs Vera |
| 2011-10-29 | W | Eliot Marshall | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 137: Penn vs Diaz |
| 2011-01-01 | D | Thiago Silva | Overturned | R3 | UFC 125: Resolution |
| 2010-03-21 | L | Jon Jones | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Live: Vera vs Jones |
| 2009-11-14 | L | Randy Couture | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 105: Couture vs Vera |
| 2009-08-29 | W | Krzysztof Soszynski | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 102: Couture vs Nogueira |
| 2009-03-07 | W | Michael Patt | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 96: Jackson vs Jardine |
| 2008-10-18 | L | Keith Jardine | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 89: Bisping vs Leben |
| 2008-07-19 | W | Reese Andy | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC: Silva vs Irvin |
| 2008-06-07 | L | Fabricio Werdum | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 85: Bedlam |
| 2007-10-20 | L | Tim Sylvia | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 77: Hostile Territory |
| 2006-11-18 | W | Frank Mir | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 65: Bad Intentions |
| 2006-05-27 | W | Assuerio Silva | Submission | R1 | UFC 60: Hughes vs Gracie |
| 2006-02-04 | W | Justin Eilers | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 57: Liddell vs Couture 3 |
| 2005-10-03 | W | Fabiano Scherner | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC Fight Night 2 |
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.
The 11 cities Brandon Vera 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.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.