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Evan Tanner

UFC 11-6Pro 32-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Evan Tanner’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher

UFC recordUFC 11-6 first fight 1999-01-08 · last fight 2008-06-21
Pro record32-8
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age55
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Middleweight. 11 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 2 decision. Top 12% of Middleweights: connects with 59% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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. 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 UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
Born inAmarillo, Texas, United States Wikipedia
CampHard Knocks Kickboxing
Height6' 0"
Reach74"
StanceOrthodox
Age55
Date of birthFeb 11, 1971
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record32-8
UFC recordUFC 11-6 first fight 1999-01-08 · last fight 2008-06-21
Finish split11 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Evan Tanner’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 / min3.05
Striking accuracy59%
Strikes absorbed / min2.64
Striking defence56%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.55
Takedown accuracy43%
Takedown defence25%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.30

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.
Striking74
Defence68
Grappling / TD63
Cardio65
Chin32
Fight IQ60

Strike zones

Strike zones

Evan Tanner

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

HEAD61.1%ACC 52%BODY25.0%ACC 74%LEGS13.9%ACC 88%
FightIQ read Ground striker 42% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
61.1% acc 52%−2.4 vs field
BODY
25.0% acc 74%+4.5 vs field
LEGS
13.9% acc 88%−2.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 33%CLINCH 24%GROUND 42%

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.

17 UFC fights · 388 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Evan Tanner

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

2.55takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.55 landed per 15 minutes — +0.27 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS69
2.55 / 15m+0.27 vs field
ATTEMPTS67
5.93 / 15m+0.60 vs field
ACCURACY51
43%−4pp vs field
SUB ATT69
1.30 / 15m−0.25 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.
3.16/min#723 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
1.78/min#1,605 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
2.45/min#248 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
3.65/min#936 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
60.0%#25 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
42.3%#1,147 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.
2.24small sample (17 fights)
1.31#388 of 468 ranked in the UFC
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
18%#514 of 803 ranked in the UFC
20%#858 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
22.2%small sample (17 fights)
—not enough data to compute
Get-up speedSeconds the opponent stays in control after each takedown landed on this fighter. Lower means back on their feet faster.
104 sec#394 of 990 ranked in the UFC
—not enough data to compute
Cardio and late rounds
Round-3 pace kept†Round-3 striking pace as a share of round-1 pace. 100% means no fade.
200%small sample (4 fights)
233%small sample (2 fights)
Five-round win rate†Share of decided five-round fights won.
33%#157 of 195 ranked in the UFC
0%small sample (1 fight)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.12 per 15 min#864 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.28 per 15 min#677 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
24%#318 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#1,111 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
24%#155 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
20%#395 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 2008-06-21.

Recent form

Pro record: 32-8. In the UFC: 11-6. Evan Tanner’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.

Full UFC career — 17 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2008-06-21LKendall GroveDecision (split)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest Finale
2008-03-01LYushin OkamiKO/TKOR2UFC 82: Pride of a Champion
2006-04-15WJustin LevensSubmissionR1UFC 59: Reality Check
2005-10-03LDavid LoiseauTKO (doctor)R2UFC Fight Night 2
2005-06-04LRich FranklinTKO (doctor)R4UFC 53: Heavy Hitters
2005-02-05WDavid TerrellKO/TKOR1UFC 51: Super Saturday
2004-10-22WRobbie LawlerSubmissionR1UFC 50: The War Of '04
2004-06-19WPhil BaroniDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 48: Payback
2003-11-21WPhil BaroniKO/TKOR1UFC 45: Revolution
2003-04-25LRich FranklinKO/TKOR1UFC 42: Sudden Impact
2002-07-13WChris HasemanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 38: Brawl at the Hall
2002-03-22WElvis SinosicTKO (doctor)R1UFC 36: Worlds Collide
2001-11-02WHomer MooreSubmissionR2UFC 34: High Voltage
2001-02-23LTito OrtizKO/TKOR1UFC 30: Battle on the Boardwalk
2000-12-16WLance GibsonKO/TKOR1UFC 29: Defense of the Belts
1999-03-05WValeri IgnatovKO/TKOR1UFC 19: Ultimate Young Guns
1999-01-08WDarrel GholarSubmissionR1UFC 18: The Road to the Heavyweight Title

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 Evan Tanner 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 — 6 bouts, 2001–2008Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA — 3 bouts, 2001–2005Anaheim, California, USA — 1 bout, 2006Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, USA — 1 bout, 1999Columbus, Ohio, USA — 1 bout, 2008London, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2002Miami, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2003New Orleans, Louisiana, USA — 1 bout, 1999Tokyo, Japan — 1 bout, 2000Uncasville, Connecticut, USA — 1 bout, 2003

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

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