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Josh Clopton

UFC 0-2Pro 6-2-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 0-2 first fight 2011-12-03 · last fight 2013-08-03
Pro record6-2-1
Current streak2 losses
Last 2 (UFC)L L
DivisionFeatherweight
Age45
Height5' 6"
StanceOrthodox

5' 6" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Featherweight. Top 3% of Featherweights: connects with 64% of his significant strikes and completes 66% of his takedown attempts.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Gentleman
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)San Francisco, California
CampSkrap Pack
Height5' 6"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age45
Date of birthJul 11, 1981
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record6-2-1
UFC recordUFC 0-2 first fight 2011-12-03 · last fight 2013-08-03
Finish splitpending
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Josh Clopton’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 / min1.60
Striking accuracy64%
Strikes absorbed / min2.87
Striking defence50%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.00
Takedown accuracy66%
Takedown defence75%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Featherweight 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 Featherweight.
Striking58
Defence50
Grappling / TD72
Cardio54
Chin limited sample69
Fight IQ61

Strike zones

Strike zones

Josh Clopton

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

HEAD45.8%ACC 46%BODY29.2%FIELD 20%LEGS25.0%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 25.0% to the legs — +8.3 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
45.8% acc 46%−17.3 vs field
BODY
29.2%+9.0 vs field
LEGS
25.0%+8.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 42%CLINCH 42%GROUND 17%

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.

Limited sample2 UFC fights · 48 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Josh Clopton

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

2.00takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 2.00 takedowns per 15 minutes at 66% completion — +23pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS56
2.00 / 15m−0.58 vs field
ATTEMPTS28
3.03 / 15m−3.07 vs field
ACCURACY88
66%+23pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.27 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.09 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 Featherweight

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.
1.60/minsmall sample (2 fights)
1.60/minsmall sample (2 fights)
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
2.87/minsmall sample (2 fights)
2.87/minsmall sample (2 fights)
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
64.0%small sample (2 fights)
64.0%small sample (2 fights)
Durability
Knockdowns per 100 head strikesKnockdowns suffered for every 100 head strikes absorbed. Lower means more punishment taken without going down.
0.00small sample (2 fights)
0.00small sample (2 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
0%small sample (2 fights)
0%small sample (2 fights)
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
75.0%small sample (2 fights)
75.0%small sample (2 fights)
Get-up speedSeconds the opponent stays in control after each takedown landed on this fighter. Lower means back on their feet faster.
262 secsmall sample (2 fights)
262 secsmall sample (2 fights)
Cardio and late rounds
Round-3 pace kept†Round-3 striking pace as a share of round-1 pace. 100% means no fade.
73%small sample (2 fights)
73%small sample (2 fights)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.00 per 15 minsmall sample (2 fights)
0.00 per 15 minsmall sample (2 fights)
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
0%small sample (2 fights)
0%small sample (2 fights)
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%small sample (2 fights)
0%small sample (2 fights)

† 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 2013-08-03.

Recent form

Pro record: 6-2-1. In the UFC: 0-2. Josh Clopton’s last 2 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 — 2 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2013-08-03LRani YahyaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 163: Aldo vs Jung
2011-12-03LSteven SilerDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs Team Miller 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 2 cities Josh Clopton has fought a UFC bout in, the camp on the record and the hometown 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.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2011Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 1 bout, 2013Camp: Skrap PackHometown: San Francisco, California

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

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