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Brian Bowles

UFC 2-2Pro 10-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 2-2 first fight 2011-03-03 · last fight 2013-05-25
Pro record10-3
Current streak2 losses
Last 4 (UFC)L L W W
DivisionBantamweight
Age46
Height5' 7"
StanceOrthodox

5' 7" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Bantamweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 submission, 1 decision. Top 8% of Bantamweights: completes 70% of his takedown attempts and avoids 64% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Athens, Georgia
CampHardcore Gym
Height5' 7"
Reach70"
StanceOrthodox
Age46
Date of birthJun 22, 1980
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record10-3
UFC recordUFC 2-2 first fight 2011-03-03 · last fight 2013-05-25
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 submission, 1 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Brian Bowles 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.

Brian Bowles in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Bantamweight14 weeks on the tables#6–10 · from the table of 4 February 2013No table on record · May 2013 – May 2013#6–10 · from the table of 21 May 2013Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#6Bantamweight · Feb 2013
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince May 2013

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 Brian Bowles’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 / min2.36
Striking accuracy26%
Strikes absorbed / min2.98
Striking defence64%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.39
Takedown accuracy70%
Takedown defence54%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.40

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Bantamweight 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 Bantamweight.
Striking20
Defence77
Grappling / TD73
Cardio limited sample47
Chin17
Fight IQ47

Strike zones

Strike zones

Brian Bowles

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

HEAD68.2%ACC 23%BODY30.6%ACC 76%LEGS1.2%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Body puncher 30.6% of his landed strikes go to the body — +8.7 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
68.2% acc 23%+6.6 vs field
BODY
30.6% acc 76%+8.7 vs field
LEGS
1.2%−15.3 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.

4 UFC fights · 85 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Brian Bowles

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

1.39takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.39 landed per 15 minutes — −0.71 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS43
1.39 / 15m−0.71 vs field
ATTEMPTS17
1.99 / 15m−3.63 vs field
ACCURACY92
70%+29pp vs field
SUB ATT83
1.40 / 15m+0.32 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.50 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 Bantamweight

Recent form

Pro record: 10-3. In the UFC: 2-2. Brian Bowles’s last 4 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

1 post-fight bonus since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Submission of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2011-03-03SOTNSubmission of the NightDamacio PageUFC Live: Sanchez vs Kampmann

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 — 4 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2013-05-25LGeorge RoopKO/TKOR2UFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2
2011-11-19LUrijah FaberSubmissionR2UFC 139: Shogun vs Henderson
2011-07-02WTakeya MizugakiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 132: Cruz vs Faber
2011-03-03WDamacio PageSubmissionR1UFC Live: Sanchez vs Kampmann

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 3 cities Brian Bowles 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 — 2 bouts, 2011–2013Louisville, Kentucky, USA — 1 bout, 2011San Jose, California, USA — 1 bout, 2011Hometown: Athens, Georgia

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

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