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Josh Parisian

UFC 2-5Pro 15-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Josh Parisian’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Technical striker

UFC recordUFC 2-5 first fight 2020-11-28 · last fight 2024-03-09
Pro record15-8
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W L
DivisionHeavyweight
Age37
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox technical striker campaigning at Heavyweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision. Top 16% of Heavyweights: lands 4.55 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
Born inMartinsburg, West Virginia, United States Wikipedia
CampScorpion Fighting System
Height6' 4"
Reach79"
StanceOrthodox
Age37
Date of birthJun 28, 1989
Weight265 lbs.
Pro record15-8
UFC recordUFC 2-5 first fight 2020-11-28 · last fight 2024-03-09
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Josh Parisian’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 / min4.55
Striking accuracy48%
Strikes absorbed / min4.88
Striking defence41%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.98
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence46%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

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.
Striking71
Defence29
Grappling / TD24
Cardio64
Chin38
Fight IQ45

Our calls on Josh Parisian’s fights

We have not called one of Josh Parisian’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Josh Parisian’s fights, 3 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Josh Parisian

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

HEAD59.0%ACC 37%BODY31.3%ACC 79%LEGS9.7%ACC 91%
FightIQ read Body puncher 31.3% of his landed strikes go to the body — +12.8 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
59.0% acc 37%−8.0 vs field
BODY
31.3% acc 79%+12.8 vs field
LEGS
9.7% acc 91%−4.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 72%CLINCH 22%GROUND 6%

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 · 310 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Josh Parisian

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

0.98takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.98 landed per 15 minutes — −1.41 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS30
0.98 / 15m−1.41 vs field
ATTEMPTS38
2.97 / 15m−2.09 vs field
ACCURACY30
33%−18pp vs field
SUB ATT13
0.20 / 15m−1.51 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.
4.37/min#280 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
2.85/min#1,083 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
4.87/min#1,084 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
3.81/min#1,012 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
47.8%#475 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
44.5%#945 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.
0.78small sample (7 fights)
1.67small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
29%small sample (7 fights)
40%#1,348 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
41.7%#957 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
40.0%#1,144 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.
128 sec#592 of 990 ranked in the UFC
105 sec#553 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.
70%small sample (3 fights)
100%small sample (1 fight)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.00 per 15 min#1,106 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.00 per 15 min#1,263 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
14%#716 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
20%#647 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%#1,057 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#1,073 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 2024-03-09.

Recent form

Pro record: 15-8. In the UFC: 2-5. Josh Parisian’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 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2022-06-25POTNPerformance of the NightAlan BaudotUFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Gamrot

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
2024-03-09LRobelis DespaigneKO/TKOR1UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2
2023-08-12LMartin BudaySubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Dos Anjos
2023-02-18LJamal PoguesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Blanchfield
2022-06-25WAlan BaudotKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Gamrot
2021-12-18LDon'Tale MayesKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus
2021-06-19WRoque MartinezDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Jung vs. Ige
2020-11-28LParker PorterDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Clark

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 Parisian 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, 2020–2023Miami, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2024

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

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