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Denis Kang

UFC 1-2Pro 35-16-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 1-2 first fight 2009-01-17 · last fight 2009-11-14
Pro record35-16-2
Current streak1 loss
Last 3 (UFC)L W L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age49
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight. 1 UFC win — 1 decision. Top 4% of Middleweights: avoids 67% of the strikes thrown at him and absorbs only 1.65 significant strikes a minute.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

Nicknamepending
NationalityCanada
Hometown (per Sherdog)Vancouver, British Columbia
CampAmerican Top Team
Height5' 11"
Reach77"
StanceOrthodox
Age49
Date of birthSep 17, 1977
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record35-16-2
UFC recordUFC 1-2 first fight 2009-01-17 · last fight 2009-11-14
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Denis Kang’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 / min2.27
Striking accuracy35%
Strikes absorbed / min1.65
Striking defence67%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.51
Takedown accuracy65%
Takedown defence38%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.20

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.
Striking31
Defence92
Grappling / TD72
Cardio limited sample56
Chin limited sample50
Fight IQ60

Strike zones

Strike zones

Denis Kang

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

HEAD73.5%ACC 34%BODY22.1%ACC 68%LEGS4.4%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Ground striker 46% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
73.5% acc 34%+10.0 vs field
BODY
22.1% acc 68%+1.6 vs field
LEGS
4.4%−11.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 46%CLINCH 9%GROUND 46%

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.

3 UFC fights · 68 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Denis Kang

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

2.51takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 2.51 takedowns per 15 minutes at 65% completion — +18pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS68
2.51 / 15m+0.23 vs field
ATTEMPTS45
3.86 / 15m−1.47 vs field
ACCURACY81
65%+18pp vs field
SUB ATT66
1.20 / 15m−0.35 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: 35-16-2. In the UFC: 1-2. Denis Kang’s last 3 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 Fight of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2009-11-14FOTNFight of the NightMichael BispingUFC 105: Couture vs Vera

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 — 3 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2009-11-14LMichael BispingKO/TKOR2UFC 105: Couture vs Vera
2009-04-18WXavier Foupa-PokamDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 97: Redemption
2009-01-17LAlan BelcherSubmissionR2UFC 93: Franklin vs Henderson

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 Denis Kang 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.

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland — 1 bout, 2009Manchester, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2009Montreal, Quebec, Canada — 1 bout, 2009Camp: American Top TeamHometown: Vancouver, British Columbia

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

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