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Marcus McGhee

UFC 6-1Pro 12-2Ranked #14 · Bantamweighttale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Marcus McGhee’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Volume boxer

UFC recordUFC 6-1 first fight 2023-04-29 · last fight 2026-10-03
Pro record12-2
Current streak2 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W L W W
DivisionBantamweight
Age36
Height5' 8"
StanceOrthodox

5' 8" orthodox volume boxer campaigning at Bantamweight. 6 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 2 decision. Top 5% of Bantamweights: lands 5.54 significant strikes a minute and stuffs 81% of the takedowns tried on him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameThe Maniac
NationalityUnited States
Born inDetroit, Michigan, United States Wikipedia
Fights out ofPhoenix, Arizona, United States Wikipedia
CampMMA Lab
Height5' 8"
Reach69"
StanceOrthodox
Age36
Date of birthMay 07, 1990
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record12-2
UFC recordUFC 6-1 first fight 2023-04-29 · last fight 2026-10-03
Finish split6 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 2 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Marcus McGhee has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Marcus McGhee in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Bantamweight70 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 19 November 2024No table on record · Dec 2024 – Jan 2025#11–15 · from the table of 14 January 2025#11–15 · from the table of 14 October 2025#11–15 · from the table of 11 June 2026First rankedRanked today
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#12Bantamweight · Jul 2025
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
Current#15Bantamweight · Oct 2026

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 Marcus McGhee’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 / min5.54
Striking accuracy43%
Strikes absorbed / min3.57
Striking defence57%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.22
Takedown accuracy11%
Takedown defence81%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

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.
Striking76
Defence58
Grappling / TD8
Cardio27
Chin84
Fight IQ51

Our calls on Marcus McGhee’s fights

Every fight of Marcus McGhee’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 2 of Marcus McGhee’s fights in 2026: 2 correct (2–0 — 100% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-10-03Anthony RomeroMarcus McGhee80.7%Correct
2026-06-07John YannisMarcus McGhee57.6%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 5 of Marcus McGhee’s fights, 3 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

Marcus McGhee

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

HEAD70.5%ACC 38%BODY16.2%ACC 65%LEGS13.3%ACC 69%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 70.5% upstairs — +8.9 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
70.5% acc 38%+8.9 vs field
BODY
16.2% acc 65%−5.7 vs field
LEGS
13.3% acc 69%−3.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 89%CLINCH 3%GROUND 8%

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.

7 UFC fights · 376 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Marcus McGhee

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

0.22takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.22 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.88 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS2
0.22 / 15m−1.88 vs field
ATTEMPTS18
2.00 / 15m−3.61 vs field
ACCURACY4
11%−30pp vs field
SUB ATT17
0.20 / 15m−0.88 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: 12-2. In the UFC: 6-1. Marcus McGhee’s last 7 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

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

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2024-01-13POTNPerformance of the NightGaston BolanosUFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2
2023-08-12POTNPerformance of the NightJP BuysUFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Dos Anjos
2023-04-29POTNPerformance of the NightJourney NewsonUFC Fight Night: Song vs. Simon

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 — 7 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-10-03WAnthony RomeroKO/TKOR1UFC 332: Silva vs. Wang
2026-06-06WJohn YannisDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim
2025-07-26LPetr YanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. De Ridder
2024-11-16WJonathan MartinezDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 309: Jones vs. Miocic
2024-01-13WGaston BolanosKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2
2023-08-12WJP BuysKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Dos Anjos
2023-04-29WJourney NewsonSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Simon

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 scale

Marcus McGhee’s official weigh-in — the weight the commission read off the scale, and the limit it had to be under.

DateOpponentWeight / limitDivisionSource
2026-06-06John Yannis136 / 136MADEBantamweightUFC.com

Weigh-in results cover the 31 UFC cards held in 2026 so far — 24 January 2026 to 12 September 2026. Earlier years are not on file yet, so a fighter with no row here is not a fighter who never missed weight.

On the map

The 4 cities Marcus McGhee has fought a UFC bout in and the camp 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 — 4 bouts, 2023–2026Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 1 bout, 2025New York City, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2024Salt Lake City, Utah, USA — 1 bout, 2026Camp: MMA Lab

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

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