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Lavar Johnson

UFC 2-2Pro 18-10tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Lavar Johnson’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Technical striker

UFC recordUFC 2-2 first fight 2012-01-28 · last fight 2013-02-23
Pro record18-10
Current streak2 losses
Last 4 (UFC)L L W W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age49
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox technical striker campaigning at Heavyweight. 2 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO. Top 10% of Heavyweights: lands 5.39 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameBig
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Madera, California
CampPro Buhawe
Height6' 4"
Reach82"
StanceOrthodox
Age49
Date of birthJun 11, 1977
Weight240 lbs.
Pro record18-10
UFC recordUFC 2-2 first fight 2012-01-28 · last fight 2013-02-23
Finish split2 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Lavar Johnson’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 / min5.39
Striking accuracy55%
Strikes absorbed / min2.54
Striking defence55%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.61
Takedown accuracy66%
Takedown defence54%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.60

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
Defence74
Grappling / TD44
Cardio limited sample20
Chin80
Fight IQ60

Strike zones

Strike zones

Lavar Johnson

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

HEAD70.2%ACC 58%BODY19.4%ACC 90%LEGS10.4%FIELD 14%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 70.2% upstairs — +3.2 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
70.2% acc 58%+3.2 vs field
BODY
19.4% acc 90%+0.9 vs field
LEGS
10.4%−4.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 40%CLINCH 47%GROUND 12%

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.

4 UFC fights · 144 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Lavar Johnson

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

0.61takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.61 takedowns and 0.60 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS17
0.61 / 15m−1.78 vs field
ATTEMPTS12
0.92 / 15m−4.13 vs field
ACCURACY78
66%+15pp vs field
SUB ATT37
0.60 / 15m−1.11 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: 18-10. In the UFC: 2-2. Lavar Johnson’s last 4 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 — 2 Knockout of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2012-05-05KOTNKnockout of the NightPat BarryUFC on FOX: Diaz vs Miller
2012-01-28KOTNKnockout of the NightJoey BeltranUFC on FOX: Evans vs Davis

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 — 4 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2013-02-23LBrendan SchaubDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 157: Rousey vs Carmouche
2012-05-26LStefan StruveSubmissionR1UFC 146: Dos Santos vs Mir
2012-05-05WPat BarryKO/TKOR1UFC on FOX: Diaz vs Miller
2012-01-28WJoey BeltranKO/TKOR1UFC on FOX: Evans vs Davis

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 4 cities Lavar Johnson 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.

Anaheim, California, USA — 1 bout, 2013Chicago, Illinois, USA — 1 bout, 2012East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2012Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2012Hometown: Madera, California

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

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