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Paul Taylor

UFC 4-5Pro 11-6-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 4-5 first fight 2007-04-21 · last fight 2011-02-05
Pro record11-6-1
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L L W L
DivisionLightweight
Age46
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 4 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 2 decision. Top 19% of Lightweights: lands 4.44 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameRelentless
NationalityEngland
Born inWalsall, England Wikipedia
CampTeam Supreme
Height6' 0"
Reach72"
StanceOrthodox
Age46
Date of birthDec 15, 1979
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record11-6-1
UFC recordUFC 4-5 first fight 2007-04-21 · last fight 2011-02-05
Finish split4 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 2 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Paul Taylor’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 / min4.44
Striking accuracy47%
Strikes absorbed / min4.47
Striking defence55%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.27
Takedown accuracy25%
Takedown defence56%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.50

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.
Striking75
Defence44
Grappling / TD19
Cardio38
Chin94
Fight IQ54

Strike zones

Strike zones

Paul Taylor

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

HEAD58.0%ACC 37%BODY14.5%ACC 74%LEGS27.5%ACC 81%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 27.5% to the legs — +10.4 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
58.0% acc 37%−4.1 vs field
BODY
14.5% acc 74%−6.3 vs field
LEGS
27.5% acc 81%+10.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 72%CLINCH 21%GROUND 8%

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.

9 UFC fights · 495 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Paul Taylor

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

0.27takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.27 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.95 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS2
0.27 / 15m−1.95 vs field
ATTEMPTS6
1.08 / 15m−4.47 vs field
ACCURACY18
25%−18pp vs field
SUB ATT36
0.50 / 15m−0.81 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.
4.44/min#251 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
4.69/min#285 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
4.47/min#1,012 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
4.86/min#1,461 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
47.9%#439 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
49.1%#475 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.
0.00#82 of 399 ranked in the UFC
0.00#104 of 468 ranked in the UFC
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
0%#148 of 803 ranked in the UFC
0%#275 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
56.2%#681 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
58.3%#702 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.
140 sec#667 of 990 ranked in the UFC
151 sec#898 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.
89%#470 of 585 ranked in the UFC
102%#336 of 605 ranked in the UFC
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.54 per 15 min#262 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.22 per 15 min#793 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
22%#436 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
20%#614 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%#931 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#995 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 2011-02-05.

Recent form

Pro record: 11-6-1. In the UFC: 4-5. Paul Taylor’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

3 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 3 Fight of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2008-10-18FOTNFight of the NightChris LytleUFC 89: Bisping vs Leben
2008-01-19FOTNFight of the NightPaul KellyUFC 80: Rapid Fire
2007-09-08FOTNFight of the NightMarcus DavisUFC 75: Champion vs Champion

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 — 9 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2011-02-05WGabe RuedigerKO/TKOR2UFC 126: Silva vs Belfort
2010-10-23LSam StoutDecision (split)R3UFC 121: Lesnar vs Velasquez
2009-11-14LJohn HathawayDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 105: Couture vs Vera
2009-06-13WPeter SobottaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 99: The Comeback
2008-10-18LChris LytleDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 89: Bisping vs Leben
2008-06-07WJess LiaudinDecision (split)R3UFC 85: Bedlam
2008-01-19LPaul KellyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 80: Rapid Fire
2007-09-08LMarcus DavisSubmissionR1UFC 75: Champion vs Champion
2007-04-21WEdilberto de OliveiraKO/TKOR3UFC 70: Nations Collide

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 Paul Taylor 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.

London, England, United Kingdom — 2 bouts, 2007–2008Manchester, England, United Kingdom — 2 bouts, 2007–2009Anaheim, California, USA — 1 bout, 2010Birmingham, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2008Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany — 1 bout, 2009Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2011Newcastle, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2008

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

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