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Kyung Ho Kang

UFC 8-5 (1 draw/NC)Pro 19-11tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Kyung Ho Kang’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler

UFC recordUFC 8-5 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2013-03-02 · last fight 2024-06-22
Pro record19-11
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W L
DivisionBantamweight
Age39
Height5' 9"
StanceOrthodox

5' 9" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Bantamweight. 8 UFC wins — 4 submission, 4 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameMr. Perfect
NationalitySouth Korea
Born inPusan, South Korea Wikipedia
Fights out ofBusan, South Korea Wikipedia
CampBusan Team MAD
Height5' 9"
Reach73"
StanceOrthodox
Age39
Date of birthSep 09, 1987
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record19-11
UFC recordUFC 8-5 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2013-03-02 · last fight 2024-06-22
Finish split8 UFC wins — 4 submission, 4 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Kyung Ho 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 / min3.13
Striking accuracy47%
Strikes absorbed / min3.32
Striking defence54%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.97
Takedown accuracy50%
Takedown defence68%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Bantamweight 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 Bantamweight.
Striking62
Defence54
Grappling / TD65
Cardio48
Chin86
Fight IQ63

Our calls on Kyung Ho Kang’s fights

We have not called one of Kyung Ho Kang’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 3 of Kyung Ho Kang’s fights, 1 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

Kyung Ho Kang

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

HEAD76.7%ACC 43%BODY9.3%ACC 63%LEGS14.0%ACC 85%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 76.7% upstairs — +15.1 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
76.7% acc 43%+15.1 vs field
BODY
9.3% acc 63%−12.6 vs field
LEGS
14.0% acc 85%−2.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 75%CLINCH 4%GROUND 21%

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.

14 UFC fights · 549 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Kyung Ho Kang

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

1.97takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 1.97 takedowns per 15 minutes at 50% completion — +9pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS59
1.97 / 15m−0.13 vs field
ATTEMPTS41
3.94 / 15m−1.67 vs field
ACCURACY78
50%+9pp vs field
SUB ATT58
0.80 / 15m−0.28 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.50 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 Bantamweight

Recent form

Pro record: 19-11. In the UFC: 8-5-1. Kyung Ho Kang’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

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

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2014-09-20FOTNFight of the NightMichinori TanakaUFC Fight Night: Hunt vs Nelson

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 — 14 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2024-06-22LMuin GafurovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov
2023-11-11LJohn CastanedaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 295: Prochazka vs. Pereira
2023-06-17WCristian QuinonezSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Cannonier
2022-06-11WBatgerel DanaaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 275: Teixeira vs. Prochazka
2021-11-20LRani YahyaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate
2019-12-21WPingyuan LiuDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. The Korean Zombie
2019-08-17WBrandon DavisDecision (split)R3UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2
2019-02-09WTeruto IshiharaSubmissionR1UFC 234: Adesanya vs. Silva
2018-08-04LRicardo RamosDecision (split)R3UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2
2018-01-14WGuido CannettiSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Stephens vs. Choi
2014-09-20WMichinori TanakaDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs Nelson
2014-01-04WShunichi ShimizuSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Saffiedine vs Lim
2013-08-31LChico CamusDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 164: Henderson vs Pettis 2
2013-03-02DAlex CaceresOverturnedR3UFC on FUEL TV: Silva vs. Stann

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 12 cities Kyung Ho Kang 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 — 2 bouts, 2021–2023Saitama, Japan — 2 bouts, 2013–2014Anaheim, California, USA — 1 bout, 2019Busan, South Korea — 1 bout, 2019Kallang, Singapore — 1 bout, 2022Los Angeles, California, USA — 1 bout, 2018Melbourne, Victoria, Australia — 1 bout, 2019Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA — 1 bout, 2013New York City, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2023Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — 1 bout, 2024Singapore, Singapore — 1 bout, 2014St. Louis, Missouri, USA — 1 bout, 2018

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

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