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Heath Herring

UFC 2-3Pro 28-16tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 2-3 first fight 2007-01-25 · last fight 2008-08-09
Pro record28-16
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L W L
DivisionHeavyweight
Age48
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Heavyweight. 2 UFC wins — 2 decision. Top 14% of Heavyweights: absorbs only 1.77 significant strikes a minute.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameThe Texas Crazy Horse
NationalityUnited States
Born inWaco, Texas, United States Wikipedia
Fights out ofLas Vegas, Nevada, United States Wikipedia
CampLas Vegas Combat Club
Height6' 4"
Reach78"
StanceOrthodox
Age48
Date of birthMar 02, 1978
Weight250 lbs.
Pro record28-16
UFC recordUFC 2-3 first fight 2007-01-25 · last fight 2008-08-09
Finish split2 UFC wins — 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Heath Herring’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 / min2.37
Striking accuracy50%
Strikes absorbed / min1.77
Striking defence54%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.22
Takedown accuracy50%
Takedown defence32%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.70

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the 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 Heavyweight.
Striking54
Defence80
Grappling / TD49
Cardio33
Chin77
Fight IQ59

Strike zones

Strike zones

Heath Herring

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

HEAD54.1%ACC 29%BODY36.6%ACC 80%LEGS9.3%FIELD 14%
FightIQ read Ground striker 57% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
54.1% acc 29%−12.9 vs field
BODY
36.6% acc 80%+18.1 vs field
LEGS
9.3%−5.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 32%CLINCH 11%GROUND 57%

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 · 172 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Heath Herring

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

1.22takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.22 landed per 15 minutes — −1.17 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS41
1.22 / 15m−1.17 vs field
ATTEMPTS32
2.44 / 15m−2.62 vs field
ACCURACY64
50%−1pp vs field
SUB ATT41
0.70 / 15m−1.01 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.29 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 Heavyweight

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.
2.29/min#1,033 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
2.29/min#1,379 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
2.36/min#210 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
2.36/min#311 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
41.7%#901 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
41.7%#1,104 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.
0.97small sample (5 fights)
0.97small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
0%small sample (5 fights)
0%#203 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
19.2%#1,083 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
19.2%#1,412 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.
99 sec#356 of 990 ranked in the UFC
99 sec#482 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.
126%small sample (5 fights)
126%small sample (5 fights)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
1.00 per 15 min#62 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
1.00 per 15 min#116 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
0%#1,222 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#1,039 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%#1,216 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#877 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 2008-08-09.

Recent form

Pro record: 28-16. In the UFC: 2-3. Heath Herring’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.

Full UFC career — 5 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2008-08-09LBrock LesnarDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 87: Seek And Destroy
2008-03-01WCheick KongoDecision (split)R3UFC 82: Pride of a Champion
2007-07-07LAntonio Rodrigo NogueiraDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 73: Stacked
2007-04-07WBrad ImesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 69: Shootout
2007-01-25LJake O'BrienDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Evans vs Salmon

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 Heath Herring 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.

Columbus, Ohio, USA — 1 bout, 2008Hollywood, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2007Houston, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2007Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA — 1 bout, 2008Sacramento, California, USA — 1 bout, 2007

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

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