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Tom Nolan

UFC 5-1Pro 11-1Ranked #14 · Lightweighttale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read
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FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 5-1 first fight 2024-01-13 · last fight 2026-06-06
Pro record11-1
Current streak5 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W W W W
DivisionLightweight
Age26
Height6' 3"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 3" southpaw technical striker campaigning at Lightweight. 5 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 decision. Top 14% of Lightweights: lands 4.84 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameBig Train
NationalityAustralia
Born inToowoomba, Queensland, Australia Wikipedia
Fights out ofBrisbane, Australia Wikipedia
CampTeam Compton Training Centre
Height6' 3"
Reach73"
StanceSouthpaw
Age26
Date of birthMar 08, 2000
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record11-1
UFC recordUFC 5-1 first fight 2024-01-13 · last fight 2026-06-06
Finish split5 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Tom Nolan has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Tom Nolan in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Lightweight19 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 11 June 2026Ranked today
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the table
Peak#13Lightweight · Jun 2026
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
Current#14Lightweight · Oct 2026

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 12 October 2026

A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.

Career rates facts

Career averages over Tom Nolan’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 / min4.84
Striking accuracy45%
Strikes absorbed / min3.74
Striking defence48%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.08
Takedown accuracy26%
Takedown defence58%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.40

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.
Striking74
Defence38
Grappling / TD42
Cardio29
Chin30
Fight IQ43

Our calls on Tom Nolan’s fights

Every fight of Tom Nolan’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 1 of Tom Nolan’s fights in 2026: 0 correct (0–1 — 0% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-06-07Fares ZiamFares Ziam (against Nolan)69.9%Missed
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 5 of Tom Nolan’s fights, 4 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

Tom Nolan

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

HEAD50.2%ACC 35%BODY31.8%ACC 61%LEGS18.0%ACC 73%
FightIQ read Body puncher 31.8% of his landed strikes go to the body — +11.0 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
50.2% acc 35%−11.9 vs field
BODY
31.8% acc 61%+11.0 vs field
LEGS
18.0% acc 73%+0.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 77%CLINCH 16%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.

6 UFC fights · 255 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Tom Nolan

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

1.08takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.08 landed per 15 minutes — −1.14 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS30
1.08 / 15m−1.14 vs field
ATTEMPTS45
4.15 / 15m−1.40 vs field
ACCURACY20
26%−17pp vs field
SUB ATT77
1.40 / 15m+0.09 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.
4.72/min#185 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
4.59/min#308 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
3.80/min#799 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
3.47/min#845 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
45.4%#622 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
44.8%#828 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.
2.15small sample (6 fights)
1.35small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
17%small sample (6 fights)
0%#184 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
58.3%#806 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
58.3%#843 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.
166 sec#793 of 990 ranked in the UFC
164 sec#960 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.
81%small sample (3 fights)
81%#462 of 605 ranked in the UFC
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.00 per 15 min#1,140 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.00 per 15 min#1,085 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
17%#629 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
20%#543 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
17%#404 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
20%#344 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 2026-06-06.

Recent form

Pro record: 11-1. In the UFC: 5-1. Tom Nolan’s last 6 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 — 6 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-06-06WFares ZiamDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim
2025-09-27WCharlie CampbellSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Ulberg vs. Reyes
2025-02-08WViacheslav BorshchevDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 312: Du Plessis vs. Strickland 2
2024-08-17WAlex ReyesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 305: Du Plessis vs. Adesanya
2024-05-18WVictor MartinezKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Murphy
2024-01-13LNikolas MottaKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 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.

On the scale

Tom Nolan’s official weigh-in — the weight the commission read off the scale, and the limit it had to be under.

DateOpponentWeight / limitDivisionSource
2026-06-06Fares Ziam155 / 156MADELightweightUFC.com

Weigh-in results cover the 31 UFC cards held in 2026 so far — 24 January 2026 to 12 September 2026. Earlier years are not on file yet, so a fighter with no row here is not a fighter who never missed weight.

On the map

The 3 cities Tom Nolan 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 — 3 bouts, 2024–2026Perth, Western Australia, Australia — 2 bouts, 2024–2025Sydney, New South Wales, Australia — 1 bout, 2025

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

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