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Zhang Mingyang

UFC 3-2Pro 19-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Zhang Mingyang’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Volume boxer

UFC recordUFC 3-2 first fight 2024-02-17 · last fight 2026-05-30
Pro record19-8
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W W
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age28
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox volume boxer campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 3 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO. Top 4% of Light Heavyweights: lands 7.01 significant strikes a minute and connects with 58% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
Height6' 2"
Reach75"
StanceOrthodox
Age28
Date of birthAug 16, 1998
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record19-8
UFC recordUFC 3-2 first fight 2024-02-17 · last fight 2026-05-30
Finish split3 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Zhang Mingyang 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.

Zhang Mingyang in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Light Heavyweight50 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 29 April 2025Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the table
Peak#13Light Heavyweight · May 2025
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Apr 2026

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 Zhang Mingyang’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 / min7.01
Striking accuracy58%
Strikes absorbed / min5.55
Striking defence43%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.00
Takedown accuracy0%
Takedown defence75%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

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.
Striking90
Defence24
Grappling / TDn/a
Cardio Round-2 tape only limited sample46
Chin11
Fight IQ43

Our calls on Zhang Mingyang’s fights

Every fight of Zhang Mingyang’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 1 of Zhang Mingyang’s fights in 2026: 0 correct (0–1 — 0% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-05-30Alonzo MenifieldZhang Mingyang73.5%Missed
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 4 of Zhang Mingyang’s fights, 2 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.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Zhang Mingyang

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

HEAD55.6%ACC 47%BODY21.8%ACC 76%LEGS22.6%ACC 94%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 22.6% to the legs — +5.8 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
55.6% acc 47%−8.6 vs field
BODY
21.8% acc 76%+2.7 vs field
LEGS
22.6% acc 94%+5.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 65%CLINCH 12%GROUND 23%

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.

5 UFC fights · 133 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Zhang Mingyang

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

0.00takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.00 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.32 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m−2.32 vs field
ATTEMPTS
Attempts per 15 needs both a landed rate and a completion rate; one of them is missing, so we do not divide.
n/a
ACCURACY
No takedown attempt on the record — UFCStats writes 0% here, which is not a completion rate.
n/a
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.60 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: 19-8. In the UFC: 3-2. Zhang Mingyang’s last 5 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

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

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2026-05-30FOTNFight of the NightAlonzo MenifieldUFC Fight Night: Song vs. Figueiredo
2025-04-26POTNPerformance of the NightAnthony SmithUFC Fight Night: Machado Garry vs. Prates
2024-11-23POTNPerformance of the NightOzzy DiazUFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Figueiredo
2024-02-17POTNPerformance of the NightBrendson RibeiroUFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria

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 — 5 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-05-30LAlonzo MenifieldKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Figueiredo
2025-08-23LJohnny WalkerKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang
2025-04-26WAnthony SmithKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Machado Garry vs. Prates
2024-11-23WOzzy DiazKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Figueiredo
2024-02-17WBrendson RibeiroKO/TKOR1UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria

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 scale

Zhang Mingyang’s official weigh-in — the weight the commission read off the scale, and the limit it had to be under.

DateOpponentWeight / limitDivisionSource
2026-05-30Alonzo Menifield205 / 206MADELight HeavyweightUFC.com

Weigh-in results cover the 31 UFC cards held in 2026 so far — 24 January 2026 to 12 September 2026. Earlier years are not on file yet, so a fighter with no row here is not a fighter who never missed weight.

On the map

The 4 cities Zhang Mingyang 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.

Macau, China — 2 bouts, 2024–2026Anaheim, California, USA — 1 bout, 2024Kansas City, Missouri, USA — 1 bout, 2025Shanghai, Hebei, China — 1 bout, 2025

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

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