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Forrest Griffin

UFC 10-5Pro 19-7tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Forrest Griffin’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

UFC recordUFC 10-5 first fight 2005-04-09 · last fight 2012-07-07
Pro record19-7
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L W W L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age47
Height6' 3"
StanceOrthodox

6' 3" orthodox decision fighter campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 10 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 7 decision. Top 13% of Light Heavyweights: avoids 61% of the strikes thrown at him and lands 4.38 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 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
Camppending
Height6' 3"
Reach77"
StanceOrthodox
Age47
Date of birthMar 16, 1979
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record19-7
UFC recordUFC 10-5 first fight 2005-04-09 · last fight 2012-07-07
Finish split10 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 7 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Forrest Griffin’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 / min4.38
Striking accuracy36%
Strikes absorbed / min2.81
Striking defence61%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.05
Takedown accuracy48%
Takedown defence57%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.70

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light Heavyweight 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking53
Defence76
Grappling / TD48
Cardio81
Chin33
Fight IQ58

Strike zones

Strike zones

Forrest Griffin

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

HEAD58.9%ACC 28%BODY15.2%ACC 60%LEGS25.9%ACC 69%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 25.9% to the legs — +9.1 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
58.9% acc 28%−5.3 vs field
BODY
15.2% acc 60%−3.9 vs field
LEGS
25.9% acc 69%+9.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 76%CLINCH 14%GROUND 10%

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.

15 UFC fights · 796 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Forrest Griffin

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

1.05takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.05 landed per 15 minutes — −1.27 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS34
1.05 / 15m−1.27 vs field
ATTEMPTS24
2.19 / 15m−3.32 vs field
ACCURACY63
48%+4pp vs field
SUB ATT46
0.70 / 15m−0.90 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.25 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 Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 19-7. In the UFC: 10-5. Forrest Griffin’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

6 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 5 Fight of the Night, 1 Submission of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2012-07-07FOTNFight of the NightTito OrtizUFC 148: Silva vs Sonnen 2
2009-08-08FOTNFight of the NightAnderson SilvaUFC 101: Declaration
2008-12-27FOTNFight of the NightRashad EvansUFC 92: The Ultimate 2008
2008-07-05FOTNFight of the NightQuinton JacksonUFC 86: Jackson vs Griffin
2007-09-22SOTNSubmission of the NightMauricio RuaUFC 76: Knockout
2006-04-15FOTNFight of the NightTito OrtizUFC 59: Reality Check

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 — 15 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2012-07-07WTito OrtizDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 148: Silva vs Sonnen 2
2011-08-27LMauricio RuaKO/TKOR1UFC 134: Silva vs Okami
2011-02-05WRich FranklinDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 126: Silva vs Belfort
2009-11-21WTito OrtizDecision (split)R3UFC 106: Ortiz vs Griffin 2
2009-08-08LAnderson SilvaKO/TKOR1UFC 101: Declaration
2008-12-27LRashad EvansKO/TKOR3UFC 92: The Ultimate 2008
2008-07-05WQuinton JacksonDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 86: Jackson vs Griffin
2007-09-22WMauricio RuaSubmissionR3UFC 76: Knockout
2007-06-16WHector RamirezDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 72: Victory
2006-12-30LKeith JardineKO/TKOR1UFC 66: Liddell vs Ortiz 2
2006-08-26WStephan BonnarDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 62: Liddell vs Sobral
2006-04-15LTito OrtizDecision (split)R3UFC 59: Reality Check
2005-10-07WElvis SinosicKO/TKOR1UFC 55: Fury
2005-06-04WBill MahoodSubmissionR1UFC 53: Heavy Hitters
2005-04-09WStephan BonnarDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Couture vs. Team Liddell Finale

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 7 cities Forrest Griffin 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 — 8 bouts, 2005–2012Anaheim, California, USA — 2 bouts, 2006–2007Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2005Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2007Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — 1 bout, 2009Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 1 bout, 2011Uncasville, Connecticut, USA — 1 bout, 2005Hometown: Athens, Georgia

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

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