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Brett Johns

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

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Brett Johns’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Wrestle-submission

UFC recordUFC 5-2 first fight 2016-11-19 · last fight 2020-07-18
Pro record17-2
Current streak2 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W L L W
DivisionBantamweight
Age34
Height5' 7"
StanceOrthodox

5' 7" orthodox wrestle-submission campaigning at Bantamweight. 5 UFC wins — 2 submission, 3 decision. Top 7% of Bantamweights: averages 4.92 takedowns per 15 minutes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameThe Pikey
NationalityWales
Born inSwansea, Wales Wikipedia
Fights out ofSwansea, Wales Wikipedia
CampChris Rees Academy
Height5' 7"
Reach71"
StanceOrthodox
Age34
Date of birthFeb 21, 1992
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record17-2
UFC recordUFC 5-2 first fight 2016-11-19 · last fight 2020-07-18
Finish split5 UFC wins — 2 submission, 3 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Brett Johns 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.

Brett Johns in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Bantamweight33 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 6 December 2017No table on record · Apr 2018 – May 2018#11–15 · from the table of 16 May 2018No table on record · Aug 2018 – Aug 2018Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#13Bantamweight · Dec 2017
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Aug 2018

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 12 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 Brett Johns’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 / min2.86
Striking accuracy49%
Strikes absorbed / min3.84
Striking defence53%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min4.92
Takedown accuracy49%
Takedown defence58%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Bantamweight 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 Bantamweight.
Striking62
Defence46
Grappling / TD78
Cardio41
Chin48
Fight IQ55

Strike zones

Strike zones

Brett Johns

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

HEAD87.7%ACC 47%BODY9.1%ACC 66%LEGS3.2%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 87.7% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +26.1 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
87.7% acc 47%+26.1 vs field
BODY
9.1% acc 66%−12.8 vs field
LEGS
3.2%−13.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 54%CLINCH 13%GROUND 34%

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 · 253 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Brett Johns

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

4.92takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 4.92 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +2.82 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS93
4.92 / 15m+2.82 vs field
ATTEMPTS87
10.04 / 15m+4.43 vs field
ACCURACY70
49%+8pp vs field
SUB ATT71
1.00 / 15m−0.08 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.50 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 Bantamweight

Deep stats facts

Career and last-five-fight figures from round-by-round UFC records, with where each ranks among every UFC fighter who has fought enough to be ranked. Tap a stat name for the full leaderboard.

 CareerLast 5 fights
Striking
Strikes landedSignificant strikes landed per minute of fight time.
2.86/min#847 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
2.54/min#1,259 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
3.84/min#810 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
4.42/min#1,295 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
49.0%#416 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
44.6%#909 of 1,752 ranked in the UFC
Durability
Knockdowns per 100 head strikesKnockdowns suffered for every 100 head strikes absorbed. Lower means more punishment taken without going down.
2.00small sample (7 fights)
2.76small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
0%small sample (7 fights)
0%#420 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
58.3%#722 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
58.3%#703 of 1,498 ranked in the UFC
Get-up speedSeconds the opponent stays in control after each takedown landed on this fighter. Lower means back on their feet faster.
77 sec#161 of 990 ranked in the UFC
76 sec#243 of 1,245 ranked in the UFC
Cardio and late rounds
Round-3 pace kept†Round-3 striking pace as a share of round-1 pace. 100% means no fade.
67%#554 of 585 ranked in the UFC
44%#588 of 605 ranked in the UFC
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.00 per 15 min#1,118 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.00 per 15 min#1,392 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
0%#1,116 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#1,334 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
29%#183 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
40%#114 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC

† Needs round-by-round data, which is missing for some UFC bouts. Those fights are left out, not estimated.

Every figure is built from UFC fights that have round-by-round data. Some older bouts do not, and are left out rather than estimated. Figures to 2020-07-18.

Recent form

Pro record: 17-2. In the UFC: 5-2. Brett Johns’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

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

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2020-01-25FOTNFight of the NightTony GravelyUFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Dos Santos

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: 20 of 611 Fight of the Night, 274 of 1,368 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
2020-07-18WMontel JacksonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Figueiredo vs. Benavidez 2
2020-01-25WTony GravelySubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Dos Santos
2018-08-04LPedro MunhozDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2
2018-04-21LAljamain SterlingDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee
2017-12-01WJoe SotoSubmissionR1The Ultimate Fighter: A New World Champion Finale
2017-07-16WAlbert MoralesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Ponzinibbio
2016-11-19WKwan Ho KwakDecision (unanimous)R3—

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 6 cities Brett Johns 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.

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 1 bout, 2020Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2018Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2017Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2017Los Angeles, California, USA — 1 bout, 2018Raleigh, North Carolina, USA — 1 bout, 2020

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

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