Built from Clay Guida’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder
5' 7" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 18 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 11 decision. Top 19% of Lightweights: averages 3.1 takedowns per 15 minutes and avoids 61% of the strikes thrown at him.
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 Carpenter |
| Nationality | United States |
| Born in | Round Lake, Illinois, United States Wikipedia |
| Fights out of | Johnsburg, Illinois, United States Wikipedia |
| Camp | Team Alpha Male |
| Height | 5' 7" |
| Reach | 70" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 44 |
| Date of birth | Dec 08, 1981 |
| Weight | 155 lbs. |
| Pro record | 38-22 |
| UFC record | UFC 18-19 first fight 2006-10-14 · last fight 2024-12-07 |
| Finish split | 18 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 11 decision |
| Social |
Every week Clay Guida 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.
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 averages over Clay Guida’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 Lightweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
We have not called one of Clay Guida’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.
Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Clay Guida’s fights, 3 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.
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 (5.19 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: 38-22. In the UFC: 18-19. Clay Guida’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 Performance of the Night, 3 Submission of the Night.
| Date | Award | Opponent | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-12-04 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Leonardo Santos | UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Aldo |
| 2014-04-11 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Tatsuya Kawajiri | UFC Fight Night: Minotauro vs Nelson |
| 2011-11-12 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Benson Henderson | UFC on FOX: Velasquez vs Dos Santos |
| 2011-01-01 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Takanori Gomi | UFC 125: Resolution |
| 2010-03-21 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Shannon Gugerty | UFC Live: Vera vs Jones |
| 2009-06-20 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Diego Sanchez | The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale |
| 2009-01-31 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Nate Diaz | UFC 94: St-Pierre vs Penn 2 |
| 2007-12-08 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Roger Huerta | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra Finale |
| 2007-06-16 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Tyson Griffin | UFC 72: Victory |
| 2006-10-14 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Justin James | UFC 64: Unstoppable |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-07 | L | Chase Hooper | Submission | R1 | UFC 310: Pantoja vs. Asakura |
| 2023-12-02 | L | Joaquim Silva | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Dariush vs. Tsarukyan |
| 2023-04-15 | L | Rafa Garcia | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Allen |
| 2022-12-03 | W | Scott Holtzman | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland |
| 2022-04-23 | L | Claudio Puelles | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Lemos vs. Andrade |
| 2021-12-04 | W | Leonardo Santos | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Aldo |
| 2021-08-21 | L | Mark Madsen | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Gastelum |
| 2021-02-06 | W | Michael Johnson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov |
| 2020-06-20 | L | King Green | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Volkov |
| 2019-08-03 | L | Jim Miller | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Lawler |
| 2019-05-11 | W | BJ Penn | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 237: Namajunas vs. Andrade |
| 2018-06-09 | L | Charles Oliveira | Submission | R1 | UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 |
| 2017-11-11 | W | Joe Lauzon | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis |
| 2017-06-25 | W | Erik Koch | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Lee |
| 2016-06-04 | L | Brian Ortega | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping 2 |
| 2015-11-07 | L | Thiago Tavares | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs Henderson 3 |
| 2015-04-04 | W | Robert Peralta | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Mendes vs Lamas |
| 2014-07-26 | L | Dennis Bermudez | Submission | R2 | UFC on FOX: Lawler vs Brown |
| 2014-04-11 | W | Tatsuya Kawajiri | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Minotauro vs Nelson |
| 2013-08-31 | L | Chad Mendes | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 164: Henderson vs Pettis 2 |
| 2013-01-26 | W | Hatsu Hioki | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Dodson |
| 2012-06-22 | L | Gray Maynard | Decision (split) | R5 | UFC on FX: Maynard vs Guida |
| 2011-11-12 | L | Benson Henderson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Velasquez vs Dos Santos |
| 2011-06-04 | W | Anthony Pettis | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs Team dos Santos Finale |
| 2011-01-01 | W | Takanori Gomi | Submission | R2 | UFC 125: Resolution |
| 2010-08-07 | W | Rafael Dos Anjos | Submission | R3 | UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen |
| 2010-03-21 | W | Shannon Gugerty | Submission | R2 | UFC Live: Vera vs Jones |
| 2009-12-12 | L | Kenny Florian | Submission | R2 | UFC 107: Penn vs Sanchez |
| 2009-06-20 | L | Diego Sanchez | Decision (split) | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale |
| 2009-01-31 | W | Nate Diaz | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 94: St-Pierre vs Penn 2 |
| 2008-09-17 | W | Mac Danzig | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Neer |
| 2008-04-02 | W | Samy Schiavo | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Florian vs Lauzon |
| 2007-12-08 | L | Roger Huerta | Submission | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra Finale |
| 2007-08-25 | W | Marcus Aurelio | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 74: Respect |
| 2007-06-16 | L | Tyson Griffin | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 72: Victory |
| 2007-01-25 | L | Din Thomas | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Evans vs Salmon |
| 2006-10-14 | W | Justin James | Submission | R2 | UFC 64: Unstoppable |
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 23 cities Clay Guida 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.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.