Built from Melvin Guillard’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker
5' 9" orthodox power striker campaigning at Lightweight. 12 UFC wins — 8 KO/TKO, 4 decision. Top 7% of Lightweights: avoids 66% of the strikes thrown at him and absorbs only 1.85 significant strikes a minute.
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.
| Nickname | The Young Assassin |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown (per Sherdog) | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Camp | Genesis Training Center |
| Height | 5' 9" |
| Reach | 71" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 43 |
| Date of birth | Mar 30, 1983 |
| Weight | 155 lbs. |
| Pro record | 32-18-2 |
| UFC record | UFC 12-9 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2005-11-05 · last fight 2014-03-08 |
| Finish split | 12 UFC wins — 8 KO/TKO, 4 decision |
| Social |
Career averages over Melvin Guillard’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.
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.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
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.
Pro record: 32-18-2. In the UFC: 12-9-1. Melvin Guillard’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.
5 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 2 Fight of the Night, 3 Knockout of the Night.
| Date | Award | Opponent | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-07-27 | KOTN | Knockout of the Night | Mac Danzig | UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Moraga |
| 2012-08-11 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Donald Cerrone | UFC 150: Henderson vs Edgar II |
| 2011-01-22 | KOTN | Knockout of the Night | Evan Dunham | UFC Fight Night: Fight for the Troops 2 |
| 2008-07-05 | KOTN | Knockout of the Night | Dennis Siver | UFC 86: Jackson vs Griffin |
| 2006-01-16 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Josh Neer | UFC Fight Night 3 |
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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-03-08 | L | Michael Johnson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs Manuwa |
| 2013-10-26 | D | Ross Pearson | Could not continue | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Munoz |
| 2013-07-27 | W | Mac Danzig | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Moraga |
| 2012-12-29 | L | Jamie Varner | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 155: Dos Santos vs Velasquez II |
| 2012-08-11 | L | Donald Cerrone | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 150: Henderson vs Edgar II |
| 2012-07-07 | W | Fabricio Camoes | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 148: Silva vs Sonnen 2 |
| 2012-01-20 | L | Jim Miller | Submission | R1 | UFC on FX: Guillard vs Miller |
| 2011-10-08 | L | Joe Lauzon | Submission | R1 | UFC 136: Edgar vs Maynard 3 |
| 2011-07-02 | W | Shane Roller | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 132: Cruz vs Faber |
| 2011-01-22 | W | Evan Dunham | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Fight for the Troops 2 |
| 2010-09-25 | W | Jeremy Stephens | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 119: Mir vs Cro Cop |
| 2010-05-29 | W | Waylon Lowe | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 114: Rampage vs Evans |
| 2010-02-06 | W | Ronys Torres | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 109: Relentless |
| 2009-09-16 | L | Nate Diaz | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Guillard |
| 2009-06-20 | W | Gleison Tibau | Decision (split) | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale |
| 2008-07-05 | W | Dennis Siver | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 86: Jackson vs Griffin |
| 2007-12-29 | L | Rich Clementi | Submission | R1 | UFC 79: Nemesis |
| 2007-04-05 | L | Joe Stevenson | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Stevenson vs Guillard |
| 2006-09-23 | W | Gabe Ruediger | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 63: Hughes vs Penn |
| 2006-05-27 | W | Rick Davis | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 60: Hughes vs Gracie |
| 2006-01-16 | L | Josh Neer | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night 3 |
| 2005-11-05 | W | Marcus Davis | TKO (doctor) | R2 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Franklin Finale |
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.
The 12 cities Melvin Guillard 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.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.