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Tyson Griffin

UFC 8-6Pro 16-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Tyson Griffin’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

UFC recordUFC 8-6 first fight 2006-09-23 · last fight 2011-10-29
Pro record16-8
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L L L
DivisionFeatherweight
Age42
Height5' 6"
StanceOrthodox

5' 6" orthodox decision fighter campaigning at Featherweight. 8 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 6 decision. Top 10% of Featherweights: avoids 65% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Santa Rosa, California
CampAmerican Kickboxing Academy
Height5' 6"
Reach68"
StanceOrthodox
Age42
Date of birthApr 20, 1984
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record16-8
UFC recordUFC 8-6 first fight 2006-09-23 · last fight 2011-10-29
Finish split8 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 6 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Tyson Griffin’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 / min3.71
Striking accuracy41%
Strikes absorbed / min2.30
Striking defence65%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.87
Takedown accuracy46%
Takedown defence59%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.90

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Featherweight 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 Featherweight.
Striking56
Defence83
Grappling / TD55
Cardio47
Chin57
Fight IQ60

Strike zones

Strike zones

Tyson Griffin

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

HEAD52.1%ACC 30%BODY21.9%ACC 74%LEGS26.0%ACC 82%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 26.0% to the legs — +9.3 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
52.1% acc 30%−11.0 vs field
BODY
21.9% acc 74%+1.7 vs field
LEGS
26.0% acc 82%+9.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 74%CLINCH 14%GROUND 12%

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.

14 UFC fights · 612 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Tyson Griffin

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

1.87takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 1.87 takedowns per 15 minutes at 46% completion — +3pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS49
1.87 / 15m−0.71 vs field
ATTEMPTS39
4.07 / 15m−2.04 vs field
ACCURACY63
46%+3pp vs field
SUB ATT54
0.90 / 15m−0.37 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.09 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 Featherweight

Recent form

Pro record: 16-8. In the UFC: 8-6. Tyson Griffin’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

6 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 5 Fight of the Night, 1 Submission of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2009-04-01FOTNFight of the NightRafael Dos AnjosUFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann
2008-10-25FOTNFight of the NightSean SherkUFC 90: Silva vs Cote
2007-09-22FOTNFight of the NightThiago TavaresUFC 76: Knockout
2007-06-16FOTNFight of the NightClay GuidaUFC 72: Victory
2007-02-03FOTNFight of the NightFrankie EdgarUFC 67: All or Nothing
2006-09-23SOTNSubmission of the NightDavid LeeUFC 63: Hughes vs Penn

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 — 14 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2011-10-29LBart PalaszewskiKO/TKOR1UFC 137: Penn vs Diaz
2011-06-26WManvel GamburyanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Live: Kongo vs Barry
2010-11-20LNik LentzDecision (split)R3UFC 123: Rampage vs Machida
2010-08-01LTakanori GomiKO/TKOR1UFC Live: Jones vs Matyushenko
2010-06-12LEvan DunhamDecision (split)R3UFC 115: Liddell vs Franklin
2009-09-19WHermes FrancaKO/TKOR2UFC 103: Franklin vs Belfort
2009-04-01WRafael Dos AnjosDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann
2008-10-25LSean SherkDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 90: Silva vs Cote
2008-07-05WMarcus AurelioDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 86: Jackson vs Griffin
2008-02-02WGleison TibauDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 81: Breaking Point
2007-09-22WThiago TavaresDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 76: Knockout
2007-06-16WClay GuidaDecision (split)R3UFC 72: Victory
2007-02-03LFrankie EdgarDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 67: All or Nothing
2006-09-23WDavid LeeSubmissionR1UFC 63: Hughes vs Penn

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 10 cities Tyson Griffin 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.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 4 bouts, 2007–2011Anaheim, California, USA — 2 bouts, 2006–2007Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA — 1 bout, 2010Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2007Dallas, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2009Nashville, Tennessee, USA — 1 bout, 2009Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA — 1 bout, 2011Rosemont, Illinois, USA — 1 bout, 2008San Diego, California, USA — 1 bout, 2010Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — 1 bout, 2010Camp: American Kickboxing AcademyHometown: Santa Rosa, California

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

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