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Gegard Mousasi

UFC 9-3Pro 42-6-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Gegard Mousasi’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

UFC recordUFC 9-3 first fight 2013-04-06 · last fight 2017-04-08
Pro record42-6-2
Current streak5 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W W W W
DivisionMiddleweight
Age41
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox power striker campaigning at Middleweight. 9 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 decision. Top 3% of Middleweights: avoids 68% of the strikes thrown at him and absorbs only 1.21 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
NationalityNetherlands
Hometown (per Sherdog)Leiden, South Holland
CampTeam Jurojin
Height6' 2"
Reach76"
StanceOrthodox
Age41
Date of birthAug 01, 1985
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record42-6-2
UFC recordUFC 9-3 first fight 2013-04-06 · last fight 2017-04-08
Finish split9 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Gegard Mousasi 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.

Gegard Mousasi in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Middleweight173 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 17 February 2014#6–10 · from the table of 14 April 2014#11–15 · from the table of 18 April 2014#6–10 · from the table of 21 April 2014#11–15 · from the table of 12 May 2014#6–10 · from the table of 2 June 2014No table on record · Mar 2016 – Apr 2016#6–10 · from the table of 12 April 2016#1–5 · from the table of 12 October 2016No table on record · Oct 2016 – Nov 2016#1–5 · from the table of 7 November 2016First rankedLast rankedLight Heavyweight60 weeks on the tables#6–10 · from the table of 4 February 2013No table on record · May 2013 – May 2013#6–10 · from the table of 21 May 2013#11–15 · from the table of 17 February 2014Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#4Middleweight · Apr 2017
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–537on the published tables, title reigns aside
CurrentUnrankedsince Jul 2017

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 Gegard Mousasi’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 / min3.75
Striking accuracy50%
Strikes absorbed / min1.21
Striking defence68%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.59
Takedown accuracy60%
Takedown defence59%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.10

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.
Striking73
Defence95
Grappling / TD63
Cardio50
Chin74
Fight IQ71

Strike zones

Strike zones

Gegard Mousasi

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

HEAD71.4%ACC 44%BODY10.3%ACC 70%LEGS18.3%ACC 88%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 71.4% upstairs — +7.9 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
71.4% acc 44%+7.9 vs field
BODY
10.3% acc 70%−10.2 vs field
LEGS
18.3% acc 88%+2.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 65%CLINCH 11%GROUND 23%

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.

12 UFC fights · 465 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Gegard Mousasi

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

1.59takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 1.59 takedowns per 15 minutes at 60% completion — +13pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS46
1.59 / 15m−0.69 vs field
ATTEMPTS32
2.65 / 15m−2.68 vs field
ACCURACY79
60%+13pp vs field
SUB ATT63
1.10 / 15m−0.45 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: 42-6-2. In the UFC: 9-3. Gegard Mousasi’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

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

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2016-07-09POTNPerformance of the NightThiago SantosUFC 200: Tate vs Nunes
2015-01-24POTNPerformance of the NightDan HendersonUFC on FOX: Gustafsson vs Johnson
2014-05-31POTNPerformance of the NightMark Munoz—
2014-02-15FOTNFight of the NightLyoto MachidaUFC Fight Night: Machida vs Mousasi

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 — 12 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2017-04-08WChris WeidmanKO/TKOR2UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2
2016-11-19WUriah HallKO/TKOR1—
2016-10-08WVitor BelfortKO/TKOR2UFC 204: Bisping vs. Henderson
2016-07-09WThiago SantosKO/TKOR1UFC 200: Tate vs Nunes
2016-02-27WThales LeitesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Silva vs Bisping
2015-09-26LUriah HallKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs Nelson
2015-05-16WConstantinos PhilippouDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs Faber
2015-01-24WDan HendersonKO/TKOR1UFC on FOX: Gustafsson vs Johnson
2014-09-05LJacare SouzaSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs Mousasi
2014-05-31WMark MunozSubmissionR1—
2014-02-15LLyoto MachidaDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Mousasi
2013-04-06WIlir LatifiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FUEL TV: Mousasi vs Latifi

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 9 cities Gegard Mousasi 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.

Stockholm, Sweden — 2 bouts, 2013–2015Buffalo, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2017Jaragua do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil — 1 bout, 2014Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2016Ledyard, Connecticut, USA — 1 bout, 2014London, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2016Manchester, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2016Manila, Philippines — 1 bout, 2015Saitama, Japan — 1 bout, 2015Hometown: Leiden, South Holland

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

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