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Jon Jones

UFC 22-1 (1 draw/NC)Pro 28-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Jon Jones’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

UFC recordUFC 22-1 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2008-08-09 · last fight 2024-11-16
Pro record28-1
Current streak6 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W W W W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age39
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Heavyweight. 22 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 6 submission, 10 decision. Top 5% of Heavyweights: avoids 64% of the strikes thrown at him and connects with 58% of his significant strikes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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. 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.

NicknameBones
Nationalitypending
Hometownpending
Camppending
Height6' 4"
Reach84"
StanceOrthodox
Age39
Date of birthJul 19, 1987
Weight248 lbs.
Pro record28-1
UFC recordUFC 22-1 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2008-08-09 · last fight 2024-11-16
Finish split22 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 6 submission, 10 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Jon Jones has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, 3 of them, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Jon Jones in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Light Heavyweight238 weeks on the tablesChampion · from the table of 4 February 2013No table on record · May 2013 – May 2013Champion · from the table of 21 May 2013CHAMPION#1–5 · from the table of 16 November 2015No table on record · Mar 2016 – Apr 2016#1–5 · from the table of 12 April 2016#1–5 · from the table of 18 July 2017Champion · from the table of 2 August 2017No table on record · Aug 2017 – Sep 2017Champion · from the table of 4 September 2017#1–5 · from the table of 7 November 2018Champion · from the table of 1 January 2019No table on record · Nov 2019 – Dec 2019Champion · from the table of 10 December 2019No table on record · Dec 2019 – Jan 2020Champion · from the table of 20 January 2020No table on record · Mar 2020 – May 2020Champion · from the table of 11 May 2020Belt wonLast rankedHeavyweight117 weeks on the tablesChampion · from the table of 7 March 2023CHAMPIONNo table on record · Dec 2024 – Jan 2025Champion · from the table of 14 January 2025Belt wonLast rankedPound-for-pound478 weeks on the tables#1–5 · from the table of 4 February 2013No table on record · May 2013 – May 2013#1–5 · from the table of 21 May 2013#1–5 · from the table of 16 November 2015No table on record · Mar 2016 – Apr 2016#1–5 · from the table of 12 April 2016#6–10 · from the table of 18 July 2017#1–5 · from the table of 26 July 2017No table on record · Aug 2017 – Sep 2017#1–5 · from the table of 4 September 2017#1–5 · from the table of 7 November 2018No table on record · Nov 2019 – Dec 2019#1–5 · from the table of 10 December 2019No table on record · Dec 2019 – Jan 2020#1–5 · from the table of 20 January 2020No table on record · Mar 2020 – May 2020#1–5 · from the table of 11 May 2020No table on record · Dec 2020 – Jan 2021#1–5 · from the table of 18 January 2021#6–10 · from the table of 2 November 2021No table on record · Dec 2021 – Jan 2022#6–10 · from the table of 17 January 2022#11–15 · from the table of 4 July 2022No table on record · Dec 2022 – Jan 2023#11–15 · from the table of 17 January 2023#6–10 · from the table of 14 February 2023#1–5 · from the table of 7 March 2023No table on record · Dec 2024 – Jan 2025#1–5 · from the table of 14 January 2025First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
PeakChampionLight Heavyweight · Feb 2013
Weeks as champion309on the published tables
Weeks at #1–546on the published tables, title reigns aside
CurrentUnrankedsince Jun 2025

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 Jon Jones’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 accuracy58%
Strikes absorbed / min2.24
Striking defence64%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.89
Takedown accuracy45%
Takedown defence95%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.50

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the 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 Heavyweight.
Striking84
Defence84
Grappling / TD47
Cardio48
Chin100
Fight IQ73

Our calls on Jon Jones’s fights

We have not called one of Jon Jones’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 2 of Jon Jones’s fights, 2 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.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Jon Jones

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

HEAD48.5%ACC 48%BODY24.0%ACC 76%LEGS27.5%ACC 76%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 27.5% to the legs — +13.0 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
48.5% acc 48%−18.5 vs field
BODY
24.0% acc 76%+5.5 vs field
LEGS
27.5% acc 76%+13.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 65%CLINCH 16%GROUND 19%

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.

24 UFC fights · 1,564 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Jon Jones

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

1.89takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 1.89 takedowns per 15 minutes at 45% completion — −6pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS59
1.89 / 15m−0.50 vs field
ATTEMPTS53
4.20 / 15m−0.86 vs field
ACCURACY50
45%−6pp vs field
SUB ATT32
0.50 / 15m−1.21 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.29 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 Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 28-1. In the UFC: 22-1-1. Jon Jones’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

9 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 4 Fight of the Night, 2 Performance of the Night, 1 Knockout of the Night, 2 Submission of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2023-03-04POTNPerformance of the NightCiryl GaneUFC 285: Jones vs. Gane
2017-07-29POTNPerformance of the NightDaniel CormierUFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones 2
2015-01-03FOTNFight of the NightDaniel CormierUFC 182: Jones vs Cormier
2013-09-21FOTNFight of the NightAlexander GustafssonUFC 165: Jones vs Gustafsson
2012-09-22SOTNSubmission of the NightVitor BelfortUFC 152: Jones vs Belfort
2011-12-10FOTNFight of the NightLyoto MachidaUFC 140: Jones vs Machida
2011-09-24FOTNFight of the NightQuinton JacksonUFC 135: Jones vs Rampage
2011-02-05SOTNSubmission of the NightRyan BaderUFC 126: Silva vs Belfort
2010-03-21KOTNKnockout of the NightBrandon VeraUFC Live: Vera vs Jones

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 — 24 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2024-11-16WStipe MiocicKO/TKOR3UFC 309: Jones vs. Miocic
2023-03-04WCiryl GaneSubmissionR1UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane
2020-02-08WDominick ReyesDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 247: Jones vs. Reyes
2019-07-06WThiago SantosDecision (split)R5UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos
2019-03-02WAnthony SmithDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 235: Jones vs. Smith
2018-12-29WAlexander GustafssonKO/TKOR3UFC 232: Jones vs. Gustafsson 2
2017-07-29DDaniel CormierOverturnedR3UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones 2
2016-04-23WOvince Saint PreuxDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 197: Jones vs Saint Preux
2015-01-03WDaniel CormierDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 182: Jones vs Cormier
2014-04-26WGlover TeixeiraDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 172: Jones vs Teixeira
2013-09-21WAlexander GustafssonDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 165: Jones vs Gustafsson
2013-04-27WChael SonnenKO/TKOR1UFC 159: Jones vs Sonnen
2012-09-22WVitor BelfortSubmissionR4UFC 152: Jones vs Belfort
2012-04-21WRashad EvansDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 145: Jones vs Evans
2011-12-10WLyoto MachidaSubmissionR2UFC 140: Jones vs Machida
2011-09-24WQuinton JacksonSubmissionR4UFC 135: Jones vs Rampage
2011-03-19WMauricio RuaKO/TKOR3UFC 128: Shogun vs Jones
2011-02-05WRyan BaderSubmissionR2UFC 126: Silva vs Belfort
2010-08-01WVladimir MatyushenkoKO/TKOR1UFC Live: Jones vs Matyushenko
2010-03-21WBrandon VeraKO/TKOR1UFC Live: Vera vs Jones
2009-12-05LMatt HamillDQR1The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights Finale
2009-07-11WJake O'BrienSubmissionR2UFC 100
2009-01-31WStephan BonnarDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 94: St-Pierre vs Penn 2
2008-08-09WAndre GusmaoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 87: Seek And Destroy

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 13 cities Jon Jones has fought a UFC bout in. 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 — 9 bouts, 2009–2023Toronto, Ontario, Canada — 3 bouts, 2011–2013Newark, New Jersey, USA — 2 bouts, 2011–2013Anaheim, California, USA — 1 bout, 2017Atlanta, Georgia, USA — 1 bout, 2012Baltimore, Maryland, USA — 1 bout, 2014Broomfield, Colorado, USA — 1 bout, 2010Denver, Colorado, USA — 1 bout, 2011Houston, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2020Los Angeles, California, USA — 1 bout, 2018Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA — 1 bout, 2008New York City, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2024San Diego, California, USA — 1 bout, 2010

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

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