Built from Shane Nelson’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder
5' 9" southpaw all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision. Top 20% of Lightweights: avoids 61% of the strikes thrown at him and averages 1.6 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
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 UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.
| Nickname | Sugar |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown (per Sherdog) | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Camp | BJ Penn's MMA |
| Height | 5' 9" |
| Reach | 70" |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Age | 41 |
| Date of birth | Nov 29, 1984 |
| Weight | 155 lbs. |
| Pro record | 16-7 |
| UFC record | UFC 2-2 first fight 2008-12-13 · last fight 2009-12-12 |
| Finish split | 2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision |
Career averages over Shane Nelson’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: 16-7. In the UFC: 2-2. Shane Nelson’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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-12-12 | L | Matt Wiman | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 107: Penn vs Sanchez |
| 2009-08-08 | L | Aaron Riley | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 101: Declaration |
| 2009-03-07 | W | Aaron Riley | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 96: Jackson vs Jardine |
| 2008-12-13 | W | George Roop | Decision (split) | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir 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 4 cities Shane Nelson 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.