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Chris Weidman

UFC 12-8Pro 16-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Chris Weidman’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder

UFC recordUFC 12-8 first fight 2011-03-03 · last fight 2024-12-07
Pro record16-8
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L L W
DivisionMiddleweight
Age42
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight. 12 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 5 decision. Top 18% of Middleweights: averages 3.27 takedowns per 15 minutes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameThe All-American
NationalityUnited States
Born inBaldwin, New York, United States Wikipedia
Fights out ofSimpsonville, South Carolina, United States Wikipedia
CampSerra-Longo Fight Team
Height6' 2"
Reach78"
StanceOrthodox
Age42
Date of birthJun 17, 1984
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record16-8
UFC recordUFC 12-8 first fight 2011-03-03 · last fight 2024-12-07
Finish split12 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 5 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Chris Weidman has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, 2 of them, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Chris Weidman in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Middleweight426 weeks on the tables#1–5 · from the table of 4 February 2013No table on record · May 2013 – May 2013#1–5 · from the table of 21 May 2013Champion · from the table of 8 July 2013CHAMPION#1–5 · from the table of 14 December 2015No 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 2016#6–10 · from the table of 19 April 2017#1–5 · from the table of 18 July 2017No table on record · Aug 2017 – Sep 2017#1–5 · from the table of 4 September 2017#6–10 · from the table of 8 November 2017#1–5 · from the table of 29 November 2017No table on record · Apr 2018 – May 2018#1–5 · from the table of 16 May 2018No table on record · Aug 2018 – Aug 2018#1–5 · from the table of 29 August 2018No table on record · Oct 2018 – Oct 2018#1–5 · from the table of 31 October 2018#6–10 · from the table of 11 February 2019#11–15 · from the table of 17 August 2020#6–10 · from the table of 7 September 2020#11–15 · from the table of 14 December 2020No table on record · Dec 2020 – Jan 2021#11–15 · from the table of 18 January 2021No table on record · Dec 2021 – Jan 2022#11–15 · from the table of 17 January 2022Belt wonReign endsLast rankedPound-for-pound155 weeks on the tables#6–10 · from the table of 8 July 2013#1–5 · from the table of 30 December 2013#6–10 · from the table of 3 February 2014#1–5 · from the table of 3 March 2014#6–10 · from the table of 10 March 2014#1–5 · from the table of 18 April 2014#6–10 · from the table of 21 April 2014#1–5 · from the table of 26 May 2014#11–15 · from the table of 14 December 2015No table on record · Mar 2016 – Apr 2016#11–15 · from the table of 12 April 2016#6–10 · from the table of 16 May 2016#11–15 · from the table of 6 June 2016First rankedPeak #2Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
PeakChampionMiddleweight · Jul 2013
Weeks as champion127on the published tables
Weeks at #1–5154on the published tables, title reigns aside
CurrentUnrankedsince Jul 2022

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 Chris Weidman’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 / min3.11
Striking accuracy45%
Strikes absorbed / min3.37
Striking defence51%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.27
Takedown accuracy42%
Takedown defence72%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking56
Defence48
Grappling / TD60
Cardio68
Chin35
Fight IQ53

Our calls on Chris Weidman’s fights

We have not called one of Chris Weidman’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Chris Weidman’s fights, 1 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Chris Weidman

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

HEAD73.5%ACC 40%BODY16.0%ACC 61%LEGS10.5%ACC 80%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 73.5% upstairs — +10.0 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
73.5% acc 40%+10.0 vs field
BODY
16.0% acc 61%−4.5 vs field
LEGS
10.5% acc 80%−5.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 66%CLINCH 9%GROUND 24%

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.

20 UFC fights · 626 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Chris Weidman

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

3.27takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.27 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +0.99 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS82
3.27 / 15m+0.99 vs field
ATTEMPTS78
7.79 / 15m+2.46 vs field
ACCURACY50
42%−5pp vs field
SUB ATT49
0.80 / 15m−0.75 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 16-8. In the UFC: 12-8. Chris Weidman’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

7 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 3 Fight of the Night, 1 Performance of the Night, 2 Knockout of the Night, 1 Submission of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2018-11-03FOTNFight of the NightJacare SouzaUFC 230: Cormier vs. Lewis
2015-12-12FOTNFight of the NightLuke RockholdUFC 194: Aldo vs McGregor
2015-05-23POTNPerformance of the NightVitor BelfortUFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier
2014-07-05FOTNFight of the NightLyoto MachidaUFC 175: Weidman vs Machida
2013-07-06KOTNKnockout of the NightAnderson SilvaUFC 162: Silva vs Weidman
2012-07-11KOTNKnockout of the NightMark MunozUFC on FUEL TV: Munoz vs Weidman
2011-06-11SOTNSubmission of the NightJesse BongfeldtUFC 131: Dos Santos vs Carwin

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 — 20 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2024-12-07LEryk AndersKO/TKOR2UFC 310: Pantoja vs. Asakura
2024-03-30WBruno SilvaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot
2023-08-19LBrad TavaresDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley
2021-04-24LUriah HallKO/TKOR1UFC 261: Usman vs. Masvidal 2
2020-08-08WOmari AkhmedovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik
2019-10-18LDominick ReyesKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Weidman
2018-11-03LJacare SouzaKO/TKOR3UFC 230: Cormier vs. Lewis
2017-07-22WKelvin GastelumSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Weidman vs. Gastelum
2017-04-08LGegard MousasiKO/TKOR2UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2
2016-11-12LYoel RomeroKO/TKOR3UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor
2015-12-12LLuke RockholdKO/TKOR4UFC 194: Aldo vs McGregor
2015-05-23WVitor BelfortKO/TKOR1UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier
2014-07-05WLyoto MachidaDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 175: Weidman vs Machida
2013-12-28WAnderson SilvaKO/TKOR2UFC 168: Weidman vs Silva 2
2013-07-06WAnderson SilvaKO/TKOR2UFC 162: Silva vs Weidman
2012-07-11WMark MunozKO/TKOR2UFC on FUEL TV: Munoz vs Weidman
2012-01-28WDemian MaiaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FOX: Evans vs Davis
2011-11-19WTom LawlorSubmissionR1UFC 139: Shogun vs Henderson
2011-06-11WJesse BongfeldtSubmissionR1UFC 131: Dos Santos vs Carwin
2011-03-03WAlessio SakaraDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 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 11 cities Chris Weidman has fought a UFC bout in and the camp 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 — 7 bouts, 2013–2024Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 2 bouts, 2019–2023New York City, New York, USA — 2 bouts, 2016–2018San Jose, California, USA — 2 bouts, 2011–2012Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2024Buffalo, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2017Chicago, Illinois, USA — 1 bout, 2012Jacksonville, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2021Louisville, Kentucky, USA — 1 bout, 2011Uniondale, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2017Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — 1 bout, 2011Camp: Serra-Longo Fight Team

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

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