Built from Chris Lytle’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler
5' 11" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Welterweight. 10 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 6 submission, 3 decision. Top 13% of Welterweights: averages 2.4 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
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 UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.
| Nickname | Lights Out |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown (per Sherdog) | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Camp | Integrated Fighting Academy |
| Height | 5' 11" |
| Reach | 68" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 52 |
| Date of birth | Aug 18, 1974 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 31-18-5 |
| UFC record | UFC 10-10 first fight 2000-11-17 · last fight 2011-08-14 |
| Finish split | 10 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 6 submission, 3 decision |
Career averages over Chris Lytle’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 Welterweight 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 (5.27 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: 31-18-5. In the UFC: 10-10. Chris Lytle’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.
10 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 6 Fight of the Night, 1 Knockout of the Night, 3 Submission of the Night.
| Date | Award | Opponent | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-08-14 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Dan Hardy | UFC Live: Hardy vs Lytle |
| 2011-08-14 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Dan Hardy | UFC Live: Hardy vs Lytle |
| 2011-02-26 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Brian Ebersole | UFC 127: Penn vs Fitch |
| 2010-02-20 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Brian Foster | UFC 110: Nogueira vs Velasquez |
| 2009-06-20 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Kevin Burns | The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale |
| 2009-01-17 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Marcus Davis | UFC 93: Franklin vs Henderson |
| 2008-10-18 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Paul Taylor | UFC 89: Bisping vs Leben |
| 2008-02-02 | KOTN | Knockout of the Night | Kyle Bradley | UFC 81: Breaking Point |
| 2007-11-17 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Thiago Alves | UFC 78: Validation |
| 2007-07-07 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Jason Gilliam | UFC 73: Stacked |
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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-08-14 | W | Dan Hardy | Submission | R3 | UFC Live: Hardy vs Lytle |
| 2011-02-26 | L | Brian Ebersole | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 127: Penn vs Fitch |
| 2010-09-25 | W | Matt Serra | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 119: Mir vs Cro Cop |
| 2010-07-03 | W | Matt Brown | Submission | R2 | UFC 116: Lesnar vs Carwin |
| 2010-02-20 | W | Brian Foster | Submission | R1 | UFC 110: Nogueira vs Velasquez |
| 2009-06-20 | W | Kevin Burns | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale |
| 2009-01-17 | L | Marcus Davis | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 93: Franklin vs Henderson |
| 2008-10-18 | W | Paul Taylor | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 89: Bisping vs Leben |
| 2008-07-05 | L | Josh Koscheck | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 86: Jackson vs Griffin |
| 2008-02-02 | W | Kyle Bradley | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 81: Breaking Point |
| 2007-11-17 | L | Thiago Alves | TKO (doctor) | R2 | UFC 78: Validation |
| 2007-07-07 | W | Jason Gilliam | Submission | R1 | UFC 73: Stacked |
| 2007-03-03 | L | Matt Hughes | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 68: The Uprising |
| 2006-11-11 | L | Matt Serra | Decision (split) | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: The Comeback Finale |
| 2005-10-07 | L | Joe Riggs | TKO (doctor) | R2 | UFC 55: Fury |
| 2005-02-05 | L | Karo Parisyan | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 51: Super Saturday |
| 2004-08-21 | W | Ronald Jhun | Submission | R2 | UFC 49: Unfinished Business |
| 2004-04-02 | W | Tiki Ghosn | Submission | R2 | UFC 47: It's On! |
| 2003-11-21 | L | Robbie Lawler | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 45: Revolution |
| 2000-11-17 | L | Ben Earwood | Decision (unanimous) | R2 | UFC 28: High Stakes |
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 Chris Lytle 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.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.