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TJ Grant

UFC 8-3Pro 21-5tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 8-3 first fight 2009-04-18 · last fight 2013-05-25
Pro record21-5
Current streak5 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W W W W
DivisionLightweight
Age42
Height5' 10"
StanceOrthodox

5' 10" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 8 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 4 decision. Top 11% of Lightweights: connects with 54% of his significant strikes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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. 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.

Nicknamepending
Nationalitypending
Hometownpending
Camppending
Height5' 10"
Reach72"
StanceOrthodox
Age42
Date of birthFeb 26, 1984
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record21-5
UFC recordUFC 8-3 first fight 2009-04-18 · last fight 2013-05-25
Finish split8 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 4 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week TJ Grant 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.

TJ Grant in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Lightweight63 weeks on the tables#6–10 · from the table of 4 February 2013No table on record · May 2013 – May 2013#1–5 · from the table of 21 May 2013Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#3Lightweight · May 2013
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–550on the published tables, title reigns aside
CurrentUnrankedsince May 2014

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 TJ Grant’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 / min3.95
Striking accuracy54%
Strikes absorbed / min3.21
Striking defence56%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.63
Takedown accuracy43%
Takedown defence36%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.60

FightIQ Metrics

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.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Lightweight.
Striking81
Defence60
Grappling / TD50
Cardio37
Chin85
Fight IQ63

Strike zones

Strike zones

TJ Grant

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

HEAD58.4%ACC 43%BODY30.2%ACC 82%LEGS11.4%ACC 91%
FightIQ read Body puncher 30.2% of his landed strikes go to the body — +9.4 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
58.4% acc 43%−3.7 vs field
BODY
30.2% acc 82%+9.4 vs field
LEGS
11.4% acc 91%−5.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 62%CLINCH 28%GROUND 11%

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.

11 UFC fights · 510 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

TJ Grant

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

1.63takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.63 landed per 15 minutes — −0.59 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS47
1.63 / 15m−0.59 vs field
ATTEMPTS39
3.79 / 15m−1.76 vs field
ACCURACY62
43%−0pp vs field
SUB ATT41
0.60 / 15m−0.71 vs field

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.

Ranked in Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 21-5. In the UFC: 8-3. TJ Grant’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

3 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night, 2 Knockout of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2013-05-25KOTNKnockout of the NightGray MaynardUFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2
2012-09-22FOTNFight of the NightEvan DunhamUFC 152: Jones vs Belfort
2009-12-12KOTNKnockout of the NightKevin BurnsUFC 107: Penn vs Sanchez

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 — 11 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2013-05-25WGray MaynardKO/TKOR1UFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2
2013-01-26WMatt WimanKO/TKOR1UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Dodson
2012-09-22WEvan DunhamDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 152: Jones vs Belfort
2012-05-15WCarlo PraterDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FUEL TV: Korean Zombie vs Poirier
2011-10-01WShane RollerSubmissionR3UFC Live: Cruz vs Johnson
2010-12-11LRicardo AlmeidaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 124: St-Pierre vs Koscheck 2
2010-09-25WJulio PaulinoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 119: Mir vs Cro Cop
2010-05-08LJohny HendricksDecision (majority)R3UFC 113: Machida vs Shogun 2
2009-12-12WKevin BurnsKO/TKOR1UFC 107: Penn vs Sanchez
2009-07-11LDong Hyun KimDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 100
2009-04-18WRyo ChonanDecision (split)R3UFC 97: Redemption

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 8 cities TJ Grant has fought a UFC bout in. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada — 3 bouts, 2009–2010Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 2 bouts, 2009–2013Chicago, Illinois, USA — 1 bout, 2013Fairfax, Virginia, USA — 1 bout, 2012Indianapolis, Indiana, USA — 1 bout, 2010Memphis, Tennessee, USA — 1 bout, 2009Toronto, Ontario, Canada — 1 bout, 2012Washington, DC, USA — 1 bout, 2011

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

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