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Stephan Bonnar

UFC 8-7Pro 15-9tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Stephan Bonnar’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

UFC recordUFC 8-7 first fight 2005-04-09 · last fight 2012-10-13
Pro record15-9
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W W W L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age49
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 8 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 4 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 American Psycho
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Hammond, Indiana
CampOne Kick's Gym
Height6' 4"
Reach79"
StanceOrthodox
Age49
Date of birthApr 04, 1977
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record15-9
UFC recordUFC 8-7 first fight 2005-04-09 · last fight 2012-10-13
Finish split8 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 4 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Stephan Bonnar’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 / min2.76
Striking accuracy38%
Strikes absorbed / min3.01
Striking defence52%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.32
Takedown accuracy40%
Takedown defence60%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking40
Defence60
Grappling / TD51
Cardio41
Chin82
Fight IQ55

Strike zones

Strike zones

Stephan Bonnar

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

HEAD70.6%ACC 34%BODY19.4%ACC 71%LEGS10.0%ACC 67%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 70.6% upstairs — +6.4 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
70.6% acc 34%+6.4 vs field
BODY
19.4% acc 71%+0.3 vs field
LEGS
10.0% acc 67%−6.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 43%CLINCH 32%GROUND 25%

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.

15 UFC fights · 459 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Stephan Bonnar

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

1.32takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.32 landed per 15 minutes — −1.00 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS42
1.32 / 15m−1.00 vs field
ATTEMPTS37
3.30 / 15m−2.20 vs field
ACCURACY49
40%−4pp vs field
SUB ATT63
1.00 / 15m−0.60 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.25 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 Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 15-9. In the UFC: 8-7. Stephan Bonnar’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

1 post-fight bonus since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2010-07-03FOTNFight of the NightKrzysztof SoszynskiUFC 116: Lesnar vs Carwin

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 — 15 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2012-10-13LAnderson SilvaKO/TKOR1UFC 153: Silva vs Bonnar
2011-11-19WKyle KingsburyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 139: Shogun vs Henderson
2010-12-04WIgor PokrajacDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs Team Koscheck Finale
2010-07-03WKrzysztof SoszynskiKO/TKOR2UFC 116: Lesnar vs Carwin
2010-02-20LKrzysztof SoszynskiTKO (doctor)R3UFC 110: Nogueira vs Velasquez
2009-07-11LMark ColemanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 100
2009-01-31LJon JonesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 94: St-Pierre vs Penn 2
2007-10-20WEric SchaferKO/TKOR2UFC 77: Hostile Territory
2007-07-07WMike NickelsSubmissionR1UFC 73: Stacked
2006-08-26LForrest GriffinDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 62: Liddell vs Sobral
2006-06-28LRashad EvansDecision (majority)R3UFC Fight Night 5
2006-04-06WKeith JardineDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night 4
2006-01-16WJames IrvinSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night 3
2005-08-06WSam HogerDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night 1
2005-04-09LForrest GriffinDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Couture vs. Team Liddell 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 6 cities Stephan Bonnar 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.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 10 bouts, 2005–2010Cincinnati, Ohio, USA — 1 bout, 2007Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 1 bout, 2012Sacramento, California, USA — 1 bout, 2007San Jose, California, USA — 1 bout, 2011Sydney, New South Wales, Australia — 1 bout, 2010Hometown: Hammond, Indiana

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

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