Built from Tony Ferguson’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler
5' 11" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Lightweight. 15 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 6 submission, 4 decision. Top 14% of Lightweights: lands 4.91 significant strikes a minute.
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.
| Nickname | El Cucuy |
| Nationality | United States |
| Born in | Oxnard, California, United States Wikipedia |
| Fights out of | Orange County, California, United States, Oxnard, California, United States Wikipedia |
| Camp | Knuckleheadz MMA |
| Height | 5' 11" |
| Reach | 76" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 42 |
| Date of birth | Feb 12, 1984 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 26-11 |
| UFC record | UFC 15-9 first fight 2011-06-04 · last fight 2024-08-03 |
| Finish split | 15 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 6 submission, 4 decision |
| Social |
Every week Tony Ferguson has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, 2 of them, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.
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 averages over Tony Ferguson’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.
We have not called one of Tony Ferguson’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.
Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Tony Ferguson’s fights, 3 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.
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: 26-11. In the UFC: 15-9. Tony Ferguson’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.
10 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 6 Fight of the Night, 2 Performance of the Night, 1 Knockout of the Night, 1 Submission of the Night.
| Date | Award | Opponent | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-05-09 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Justin Gaethje | UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje |
| 2019-06-08 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Donald Cerrone | UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes |
| 2018-10-06 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Anthony Pettis | UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor |
| 2016-11-05 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Rafael Dos Anjos | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Ferguson |
| 2016-07-13 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Lando Vannata | UFC Fight Night: McDonald vs. Lineker |
| 2015-12-11 | FOTN | Fight of the Night | Edson Barboza | The Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber Finale |
| 2015-07-15 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Josh Thomson | UFC Fight Night: Mir vs Duffee |
| 2015-02-28 | POTN | Performance of the Night | Gleison Tibau | UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano |
| 2013-10-19 | SOTN | Submission of the Night | Mike Rio | UFC 166: Velasquez vs Dos Santos 3 |
| 2011-06-04 | KOTN | Knockout of the Night | Ramsey Nijem | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs Team dos Santos Finale |
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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-03 | L | Michael Chiesa | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov |
| 2023-12-16 | L | Paddy Pimblett | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington |
| 2023-07-29 | L | King Green | Submission | R3 | UFC 291: Poirier vs. Gaethje 2 |
| 2022-09-10 | L | Nate Diaz | Submission | R4 | UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson |
| 2022-05-07 | L | Michael Chandler | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje |
| 2021-05-15 | L | Beneil Dariush | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 262: Oliveira vs. Chandler |
| 2020-12-12 | L | Charles Oliveira | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 256: Figueiredo vs. Moreno |
| 2020-05-09 | L | Justin Gaethje | KO/TKO | R5 | UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje |
| 2019-06-08 | W | Donald Cerrone | TKO (doctor) | R2 | UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes |
| 2018-10-06 | W | Anthony Pettis | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor |
| 2017-10-07 | W | Kevin Lee | Submission | R3 | UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee |
| 2016-11-05 | W | Rafael Dos Anjos | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Ferguson |
| 2016-07-13 | W | Lando Vannata | Submission | R2 | UFC Fight Night: McDonald vs. Lineker |
| 2015-12-11 | W | Edson Barboza | Submission | R2 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber Finale |
| 2015-07-15 | W | Josh Thomson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Mir vs Duffee |
| 2015-02-28 | W | Gleison Tibau | Submission | R1 | UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano |
| 2014-12-06 | W | Abel Trujillo | Submission | R2 | UFC 181: Hendricks vs Lawler II |
| 2014-08-30 | W | Danny Castillo | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 177: Dillashaw vs Soto |
| 2014-05-24 | W | Katsunori Kikuno | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 173: Barao vs Dillashaw |
| 2013-10-19 | W | Mike Rio | Submission | R1 | UFC 166: Velasquez vs Dos Santos 3 |
| 2012-05-05 | L | Michael Johnson | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC on FOX: Diaz vs Miller |
| 2011-12-03 | W | Yves Edwards | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs Team Miller Finale |
| 2011-09-24 | W | Aaron Riley | TKO (doctor) | R1 | UFC 135: Jones vs Rampage |
| 2011-06-04 | W | Ramsey Nijem | KO/TKO | R1 | The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs Team dos Santos 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 14 cities Tony Ferguson 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.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.