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Clint Hester

UFC 4-3Pro 11-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 4-3 first fight 2013-04-13 · last fight 2016-04-23
Pro record11-6
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W W
DivisionMiddleweight
Age39
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight. 4 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 2 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameHeadbussa
NationalityUnited States
Born inAtlanta, Georgia, United States Wikipedia
Fights out ofBoca Raton, Florida, United States Wikipedia
Camppending
Height6' 2"
Reach77"
StanceOrthodox
Age39
Date of birthNov 21, 1986
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record11-6
UFC recordUFC 4-3 first fight 2013-04-13 · last fight 2016-04-23
Finish split4 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 2 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Clint Hester’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 / min3.36
Striking accuracy42%
Strikes absorbed / min3.44
Striking defence56%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.02
Takedown accuracy35%
Takedown defence60%
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.
Striking54
Defence56
Grappling / TD32
Cardio90
Chin25
Fight IQ51

Strike zones

Strike zones

Clint Hester

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

HEAD72.2%ACC 36%BODY16.9%ACC 78%LEGS10.9%ACC 77%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 72.2% upstairs — +8.7 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
72.2% acc 36%+8.7 vs field
BODY
16.9% acc 78%−3.6 vs field
LEGS
10.9% acc 77%−5.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 77%CLINCH 9%GROUND 14%

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 · 248 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Clint Hester

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

1.02takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.02 landed per 15 minutes — −1.26 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS29
1.02 / 15m−1.26 vs field
ATTEMPTS35
2.91 / 15m−2.42 vs field
ACCURACY34
35%−12pp 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

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.
3.36/min#634 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
3.10/min#949 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
3.44/min#665 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
4.41/min#1,290 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
42.8%#797 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
41.0%#1,178 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.
1.55small sample (7 fights)
1.75#419 of 468 ranked in the UFC
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
29%small sample (7 fights)
40%#1,315 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
60.0%#677 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
58.3%#844 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.
135 sec#641 of 990 ranked in the UFC
211 sec#1,130 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.
181%small sample (2 fights)
181%small sample (2 fights)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.61 per 15 min#213 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.30 per 15 min#624 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
14%#712 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#1,122 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%#1,045 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#974 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 2016-04-23.

Recent form

Pro record: 11-6. In the UFC: 4-3. Clint Hester’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
2014-11-07FOTNFight of the NightRobert WhittakerUFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs Bisping

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
2016-04-23LMarcos Rogerio de LimaSubmissionR1UFC 197: Jones vs Saint Preux
2015-08-01LVitor MirandaKO/TKOR2UFC 190: Rousey vs Correia
2014-11-07LRobert WhittakerKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs Bisping
2014-06-28WAntonio Braga NetoDecision (split)R3—
2014-02-01WAndy EnzDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 169: Barao vs Faber 2
2013-12-06WDylan AndrewsTKO (doctor)R2UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs Bigfoot
2013-04-13WBristol MarundeKO/TKOR3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen 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.

On the map

The 5 cities Clint Hester 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.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 2 bouts, 2013–2016Brisbane, Queensland, Australia — 1 bout, 2013Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2014Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 1 bout, 2015Sydney, New South Wales, Australia — 1 bout, 2014

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

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