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Mark Bocek

UFC 8-5Pro 12-5tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Mark Bocek’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler

UFC recordUFC 8-5 first fight 2007-07-07 · last fight 2014-04-16
Pro record12-5
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L W W L
DivisionLightweight
Age44
Height5' 8"
StanceOrthodox

5' 8" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Lightweight. 8 UFC wins — 4 submission, 4 decision. Top 14% of Lightweights: averages 3.65 takedowns per 15 minutes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
NationalityCanada
Born inWoodbridge, Ontario, Canada Wikipedia
CampTristar Gym
Height5' 8"
Reach75"
StanceOrthodox
Age44
Date of birthOct 24, 1981
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record12-5
UFC recordUFC 8-5 first fight 2007-07-07 · last fight 2014-04-16
Finish split8 UFC wins — 4 submission, 4 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Mark Bocek’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 / min2.34
Striking accuracy43%
Strikes absorbed / min2.32
Striking defence60%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.65
Takedown accuracy36%
Takedown defence31%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.30

FightIQ Metrics

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.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Lightweight.
Striking46
Defence77
Grappling / TD69
Cardio51
Chin70
Fight IQ63

Strike zones

Strike zones

Mark Bocek

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

HEAD61.1%ACC 34%BODY21.3%ACC 77%LEGS17.6%ACC 88%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 61% head / 21% body / 18% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
61.1% acc 34%−1.0 vs field
BODY
21.3% acc 77%+0.5 vs field
LEGS
17.6% acc 88%+0.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 30%CLINCH 31%GROUND 39%

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.

13 UFC fights · 347 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Mark Bocek

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

3.65takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.65 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.43 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS86
3.65 / 15m+1.43 vs field
ATTEMPTS90
10.14 / 15m+4.59 vs field
ACCURACY47
36%−7pp vs field
SUB ATT74
1.30 / 15m−0.01 vs field

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.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.
2.34/min#1,020 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
2.93/min#1,037 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
2.32/min#196 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
2.80/min#499 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
43.6%#720 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
48.2%#562 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.
0.42small sample (13 fights)
0.00small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
8%#292 of 803 ranked in the UFC
0%#372 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
31.2%#1,051 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
27.3%#1,387 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.
126 sec#581 of 990 ranked in the UFC
88 sec#368 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.
66%#560 of 585 ranked in the UFC
60%#549 of 605 ranked in the UFC
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.00 per 15 min#980 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.00 per 15 min#1,318 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
0%#957 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#1,271 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
31%#106 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#1,159 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 2014-04-16.

Recent form

Pro record: 12-5. In the UFC: 8-5. Mark Bocek’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.

Post-fight bonuses

2 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 2 Submission of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2010-12-11SOTNSubmission of the NightDustin HazelettUFC 124: St-Pierre vs Koscheck 2
2009-12-05SOTNSubmission of the NightJoe BrammerThe Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights Finale

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 — 13 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2014-04-16WMike de la TorreDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs Kennedy
2012-11-17LRafael Dos AnjosDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 154: St-Pierre vs Condit
2012-04-21WJohn AlessioDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 145: Jones vs Evans
2011-12-10WNik LentzDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 140: Jones vs Machida
2011-04-30LBenson HendersonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 129: St-Pierre vs Shields
2010-12-11WDustin HazelettSubmissionR1UFC 124: St-Pierre vs Koscheck 2
2010-03-27LJim MillerDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 111: St-Pierre vs Hardy
2009-12-05WJoe BrammerSubmissionR1The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights Finale
2009-04-18WDavid BielkhedenSubmissionR1UFC 97: Redemption
2008-11-15WAlvin RobinsonSubmissionR3UFC 91: Couture vs Lesnar
2008-04-19LMac DanzigSubmissionR3UFC 83: Serra vs St-Pierre 2
2007-12-29WDoug EvansDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 79: Nemesis
2007-07-07LFrankie EdgarKO/TKOR1UFC 73: Stacked

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 7 cities Mark Bocek 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.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada — 4 bouts, 2008–2012Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 3 bouts, 2007–2009Toronto, Ontario, Canada — 2 bouts, 2011Atlanta, Georgia, USA — 1 bout, 2012Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2010Quebec City, Quebec, Canada — 1 bout, 2014Sacramento, California, USA — 1 bout, 2007Camp: Tristar Gym

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

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