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Tom Watson

UFC 2-5Pro 17-9tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 2-5 first fight 2012-09-29 · last fight 2015-08-08
Pro record17-9
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age44
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision. Top 20% of Middleweights: lands 4.01 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameKong
NationalityEngland
Hometown (per Sherdog)Southampton
CampJackson-Wink MMA
Height6' 1"
Reach73"
StanceOrthodox
Age44
Date of birthJul 13, 1982
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record17-9
UFC recordUFC 2-5 first fight 2012-09-29 · last fight 2015-08-08
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Tom Watson’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 / min4.01
Striking accuracy44%
Strikes absorbed / min4.41
Striking defence50%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.15
Takedown accuracy7%
Takedown defence43%
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.
Striking63
Defence36
Grappling / TD2
Cardio41
Chin93
Fight IQ47

Strike zones

Strike zones

Tom Watson

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

HEAD45.0%ACC 30%BODY22.0%ACC 58%LEGS33.0%ACC 85%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 33.0% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +17.0 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
45.0% acc 30%−18.5 vs field
BODY
22.0% acc 58%+1.5 vs field
LEGS
33.0% acc 85%+17.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 72%CLINCH 26%GROUND 2%

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.

7 UFC fights · 400 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Tom Watson

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

0.15takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.15 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.13 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS2
0.15 / 15m−2.13 vs field
ATTEMPTS24
2.14 / 15m−3.19 vs field
ACCURACY1
7%−40pp 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: 17-9. In the UFC: 2-5. Tom Watson’s last 7 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

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

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2013-02-16KOTNKnockout of the NightStanislav NedkovUFC on FUEL TV: Barao vs McDonald
2013-02-16FOTNFight of the NightStanislav NedkovUFC on FUEL TV: Barao vs McDonald

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 — 7 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2015-08-08LChris CamozziDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs Saint Preux
2015-01-31LRafael NatalDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 183: Silva vs Diaz
2014-08-16WSam AlveyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Bader vs Saint Preux
2014-02-01LNick CatoneDecision (split)R3UFC 169: Barao vs Faber 2
2013-08-03LThales LeitesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 163: Aldo vs Jung
2013-02-16WStanislav NedkovKO/TKOR2UFC on FUEL TV: Barao vs McDonald
2012-09-29LBrad TavaresDecision (split)R3UFC on FUEL TV: Struve vs Miocic

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 7 cities Tom Watson 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.

Bangor, Maine, USA — 1 bout, 2014Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2015London, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2013Nashville, Tennessee, USA — 1 bout, 2015Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2014Nottingham, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2012Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 1 bout, 2013Camp: Jackson-Wink MMAHometown: Southampton

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

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