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Shane Carwin

UFC 4-2Pro 12-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Shane Carwin’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

UFC recordUFC 4-2 first fight 2008-05-24 · last fight 2011-06-11
Pro record12-2
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age51
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox power striker campaigning at Heavyweight. 4 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO. Top 17% of Heavyweights: lands 4.38 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Engineer
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Greeley, Colorado
CampGrudge Training Center
Height6' 2"
Reach80"
StanceOrthodox
Age51
Date of birthJan 04, 1975
Weight265 lbs.
Pro record12-2
UFC recordUFC 4-2 first fight 2008-05-24 · last fight 2011-06-11
Finish split4 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Shane Carwin 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.

Shane Carwin in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Heavyweight4 weeks on the tables#6–10 · from the table of 4 February 2013Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the table
Peak#10Heavyweight · Feb 2013
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Mar 2013

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 Shane Carwin’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 / min4.38
Striking accuracy47%
Strikes absorbed / min3.53
Striking defence53%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.42
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence42%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

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.
Striking69
Defence58
Grappling / TD39
Cardio limited sample44
Chin66
Fight IQ55

Strike zones

Strike zones

Shane Carwin

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

HEAD81.6%ACC 42%BODY3.1%FIELD 18%LEGS15.3%ACC 95%
FightIQ read Ground striker 47% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
81.6% acc 42%+14.6 vs field
BODY
3.1%−15.4 vs field
LEGS
15.3% acc 95%+0.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 22%CLINCH 31%GROUND 47%

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.

6 UFC fights · 131 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Shane Carwin

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

1.42takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.42 landed per 15 minutes — −0.97 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS48
1.42 / 15m−0.97 vs field
ATTEMPTS54
4.30 / 15m−0.75 vs field
ACCURACY30
33%−18pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.71 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: 12-2. In the UFC: 4-2. Shane Carwin’s last 6 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 Knockout of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2010-03-27KOTNKnockout of the NightFrank MirUFC 111: St-Pierre vs Hardy

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 — 6 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2011-06-11LJunior Dos SantosDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 131: Dos Santos vs Carwin
2010-07-03LBrock LesnarSubmissionR2UFC 116: Lesnar vs Carwin
2010-03-27WFrank MirKO/TKOR1UFC 111: St-Pierre vs Hardy
2009-03-07WGabriel GonzagaKO/TKOR1UFC 96: Jackson vs Jardine
2008-10-18WNeil WainKO/TKOR1UFC 89: Bisping vs Leben
2008-05-24WChristian WellischKO/TKOR1UFC 84: Ill Will

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 5 cities Shane Carwin 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 — 2 bouts, 2008–2010Birmingham, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2008Columbus, Ohio, USA — 1 bout, 2009Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2010Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — 1 bout, 2011Camp: Grudge Training CenterHometown: Greeley, Colorado

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

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