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Rashad Evans

UFC 14-8 (1 draw/NC)Pro 19-8-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Rashad Evans’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher

UFC recordUFC 14-8 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2005-11-05 · last fight 2018-06-09
Pro record19-8-1
Current streak5 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age47
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Middleweight. 14 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 8 decision. Top 8% of Middleweights: avoids 63% of the strikes thrown at 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameSuga
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Niagara Falls, New York
CampKill Cliff FC
Height6' 0"
Reach75"
StanceOrthodox
Age47
Date of birthSep 25, 1979
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record19-8-1
UFC recordUFC 14-8 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2005-11-05 · last fight 2018-06-09
Finish split14 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 8 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Rashad Evans 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.

Rashad Evans in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Light Heavyweight194 weeks on the tables#6–10 · from the table of 4 February 2013No table on record · May 2013 – May 2013#6–10 · from the table of 21 May 2013#1–5 · from the table of 18 June 2013#6–10 · from the table of 5 October 2015No table on record · Mar 2016 – Apr 2016#6–10 · from the table of 12 April 2016No table on record · Oct 2016 – Nov 2016#6–10 · from the table of 7 November 2016#11–15 · from the table of 21 November 2016First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#2Light Heavyweight · Apr 2014
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–5120on the published tables, title reigns aside
CurrentUnrankedsince Dec 2016

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 Rashad Evans’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 / min2.14
Striking accuracy37%
Strikes absorbed / min2.42
Striking defence63%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.98
Takedown accuracy44%
Takedown defence73%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking31
Defence82
Grappling / TD64
Cardio44
Chin57
Fight IQ56

Strike zones

Strike zones

Rashad Evans

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

HEAD78.8%ACC 34%BODY14.2%ACC 64%LEGS7.0%ACC 81%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 78.8% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +15.3 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
78.8% acc 34%+15.3 vs field
BODY
14.2% acc 64%−6.3 vs field
LEGS
7.0% acc 81%−9.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 58%CLINCH 19%GROUND 23%

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.

23 UFC fights · 614 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Rashad Evans

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

2.98takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.98 landed per 15 minutes — +0.70 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS77
2.98 / 15m+0.70 vs field
ATTEMPTS73
6.77 / 15m+1.44 vs field
ACCURACY52
44%−3pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.55 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 19-8-1. In the UFC: 14-8-1. Rashad Evans’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

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

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2011-08-06FOTNFight of the NightTito OrtizUFC 133: Evans vs Ortiz 2
2008-12-27FOTNFight of the NightForrest GriffinUFC 92: The Ultimate 2008
2008-09-06KOTNKnockout of the NightChuck LiddellUFC 88: Breakthrough
2007-01-25KOTNKnockout of the NightSean SalmonUFC Fight Night: Evans vs Salmon

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 — 23 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2018-06-09LAnthony SmithKO/TKOR1UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2
2017-08-05LSam AlveyDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Pettis vs. Moreno
2017-03-04LDaniel KellyDecision (split)R3UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2
2016-04-16LGlover TeixeiraKO/TKOR1UFC on FOX: Teixeira vs Evans
2015-10-03LRyan BaderDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 192: Cormier vs Gustafsson
2013-11-16WChael SonnenKO/TKOR1UFC 167: St-Pierre vs Hendricks
2013-06-15WDan HendersonDecision (split)R3UFC 161: Evans vs Henderson
2013-02-02LRogerio NogueiraDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 156: Aldo vs Edgar
2012-04-21LJon JonesDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 145: Jones vs Evans
2012-01-28WPhil DavisDecision (unanimous)R5UFC on FOX: Evans vs Davis
2011-08-06WTito OrtizKO/TKOR2UFC 133: Evans vs Ortiz 2
2010-05-29WQuinton JacksonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 114: Rampage vs Evans
2010-01-02WThiago SilvaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 108: Evans vs Silva
2009-05-23LLyoto MachidaKO/TKOR2UFC 98: Evans vs Machida
2008-12-27WForrest GriffinKO/TKOR3UFC 92: The Ultimate 2008
2008-09-06WChuck LiddellKO/TKOR2UFC 88: Breakthrough
2007-11-17WMichael BispingDecision (split)R3UFC 78: Validation
2007-07-07DTito OrtizDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 73: Stacked
2007-01-25WSean SalmonKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Evans vs Salmon
2006-09-23WJason LambertKO/TKOR2UFC 63: Hughes vs Penn
2006-06-28WStephan BonnarDecision (majority)R3UFC Fight Night 5
2006-04-06WSam HogerDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night 4
2005-11-05WBrad ImesDecision (split)R3The 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.

On the map

The 12 cities Rashad Evans has fought a UFC bout in, the camp on the record 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.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 10 bouts, 2005–2017Atlanta, Georgia, USA — 2 bouts, 2008–2012Chicago, Illinois, USA — 2 bouts, 2012–2018Anaheim, California, USA — 1 bout, 2006Hollywood, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2007Houston, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2015Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico — 1 bout, 2017Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2007Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — 1 bout, 2011Sacramento, California, USA — 1 bout, 2007Tampa, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2016Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada — 1 bout, 2013Camp: Kill Cliff FCHometown: Niagara Falls, New York

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

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