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Gleison Tibau

UFC 16-12Pro 33-14tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Gleison Tibau’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Wrestle-grinder

UFC recordUFC 16-12 first fight 2006-11-18 · last fight 2018-06-01
Pro record33-14
Current streak4 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L W
DivisionLightweight
Age43
Height5' 10"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 10" southpaw wrestle-grinder campaigning at Lightweight. 16 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 11 decision. Top 9% of Lightweights: stuffs 92% of the takedowns tried on him and averages 4.08 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityBrazil
Hometown (per Sherdog)Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte
CampAmerican Top Team
Height5' 10"
Reach71"
StanceSouthpaw
Age43
Date of birthOct 07, 1983
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record33-14
UFC recordUFC 16-12 first fight 2006-11-18 · last fight 2018-06-01
Finish split16 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 11 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Gleison Tibau’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 / min1.95
Striking accuracy31%
Strikes absorbed / min2.51
Striking defence63%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min4.08
Takedown accuracy53%
Takedown defence92%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

FightIQ Metrics

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.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Lightweight.
Striking22
Defence81
Grappling / TD74
Cardio53
Chin59
Fight IQ58

Strike zones

Strike zones

Gleison Tibau

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

HEAD77.7%ACC 28%BODY15.1%ACC 64%LEGS7.2%ACC 90%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 77.7% upstairs — +15.6 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
77.7% acc 28%+15.6 vs field
BODY
15.1% acc 64%−5.7 vs field
LEGS
7.2% acc 90%−9.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 64%CLINCH 16%GROUND 20%

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.

28 UFC fights · 601 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Gleison Tibau

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

4.08takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 4.08 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.86 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS89
4.08 / 15m+1.86 vs field
ATTEMPTS78
7.70 / 15m+2.14 vs field
ACCURACY79
53%+10pp vs field
SUB ATT53
0.80 / 15m−0.51 vs field

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.

Ranked in Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 33-14. In the UFC: 16-12. Gleison Tibau’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

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

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2014-09-13FOTNFight of the NightPiotr HallmannUFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Arlovski
2011-05-28SOTNSubmission of the NightRafaello OliveiraUFC 130: Rampage vs Hamill

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 — 28 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2018-06-01LDesmond GreenDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Rivera vs. Moraes
2018-01-20LIslam MakhachevKO/TKOR1UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou
2015-11-07LAbel TrujilloDQR1UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs Henderson 3
2015-02-28LTony FergusonSubmissionR1UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano
2015-01-18WNorman ParkeDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Siver
2014-09-13WPiotr HallmannDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Arlovski
2014-07-16WPat HealyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs Miller
2013-12-28LMichael JohnsonKO/TKOR2UFC 168: Weidman vs Silva 2
2013-08-31WJamie VarnerDecision (split)R3UFC 164: Henderson vs Pettis 2
2013-05-18WJohn CholishSubmissionR2UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold
2013-02-02LEvan DunhamDecision (split)R3UFC 156: Aldo vs Edgar
2012-10-13WFrancisco TrinaldoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 153: Silva vs Bonnar
2012-07-07LKhabib NurmagomedovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 148: Silva vs Sonnen 2
2011-11-19WRafael Dos AnjosDecision (split)R3UFC 139: Shogun vs Henderson
2011-05-28WRafaello OliveiraSubmissionR2UFC 130: Rampage vs Hamill
2011-03-19WKurt PellegrinoDecision (split)R3UFC 128: Shogun vs Jones
2010-09-15LJim MillerDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Marquardt vs Palhares
2010-03-31WCaol UnoKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Florian vs Gomi
2009-10-24WJosh NeerDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 104: Machida vs Shogun
2009-06-20LMelvin GuillardDecision (split)R3The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale
2009-04-01WJeremy StephensDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann
2009-02-07WRich ClementiSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Lauzon vs Stephens
2008-07-05LJoe StevensonSubmissionR2UFC 86: Jackson vs Griffin
2008-02-02LTyson GriffinDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 81: Breaking Point
2007-09-08WTerry EtimDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 75: Champion vs Champion
2007-06-12WJeff CoxSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Stout vs Fisher
2007-03-03WJason DentDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 68: The Uprising
2006-11-18LNick DiazKO/TKOR2UFC 65: Bad Intentions

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 20 cities Gleison Tibau 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.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 7 bouts, 2008–2013Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 2 bouts, 2015–2018Los Angeles, California, USA — 2 bouts, 2009–2015Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2014Austin, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2010Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil — 1 bout, 2014Charlotte, North Carolina, USA — 1 bout, 2010Columbus, Ohio, USA — 1 bout, 2007Hollywood, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2007Jaragua do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil — 1 bout, 2013London, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2007Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA — 1 bout, 2013Nashville, Tennessee, USA — 1 bout, 2009Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2011Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 1 bout, 2012Sacramento, California, USA — 1 bout, 2006San Jose, California, USA — 1 bout, 2011Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil — 1 bout, 2015Tampa, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2009Utica, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2018Camp: American Top TeamHometown: Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte

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

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