Built from Jacob Volkmann’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder
5' 9" southpaw grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 6 UFC wins — 1 submission, 5 decision. Top 12% of Lightweights: absorbs only 1.78 significant strikes a minute and averages 2 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
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.
| Nickname | Christmas |
| Nationality | United States |
| Born in | Fergus Falls, Minnesota, United States Wikipedia |
| Fights out of | White Bear Lake, Minnesota, United States Wikipedia |
| Camp | The Academy MN |
| Height | 5' 9" |
| Reach | 71" |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Age | 46 |
| Date of birth | Sep 05, 1980 |
| Weight | 155 lbs. |
| Pro record | 19-7 |
| UFC record | UFC 6-4 first fight 2009-11-21 · last fight 2013-02-02 |
| Finish split | 6 UFC wins — 1 submission, 5 decision |
| Social |
Career averages over Jacob Volkmann’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.
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.19 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.
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.
† 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 2013-02-02.
Pro record: 19-7. In the UFC: 6-4. Jacob Volkmann’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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-02-02 | L | King Green | Submission | R3 | UFC 156: Aldo vs Edgar |
| 2012-10-05 | W | Shane Roller | Submission | R1 | UFC on FX: Browne vs Bigfoot |
| 2012-05-26 | L | Paul Sass | Submission | R1 | UFC 146: Dos Santos vs Mir |
| 2011-12-30 | W | Efrain Escudero | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 141: Lesnar vs Overeem |
| 2011-08-14 | W | Danny Castillo | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Live: Hardy vs Lytle |
| 2011-01-01 | W | Antonio McKee | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 125: Resolution |
| 2010-08-01 | W | Paul Kelly | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Live: Jones vs Matyushenko |
| 2010-03-31 | W | Ronys Torres | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Florian vs Gomi |
| 2010-01-02 | L | Martin Kampmann | Submission | R1 | UFC 108: Evans vs Silva |
| 2009-11-21 | L | Paulo Thiago | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 106: Ortiz vs Griffin 2 |
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.
The 5 cities Jacob Volkmann has fought a UFC bout in and the camp on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.