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Vaughan Lee

UFC 3-5Pro 14-13-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 3-5 first fight 2011-11-05 · last fight 2015-07-18
Pro record14-13-1
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L W
DivisionBantamweight
Age43
Height5' 6"
StanceOrthodox

5' 6" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Bantamweight. 3 UFC wins — 1 submission, 2 decision. Top 3% of Bantamweights: avoids 70% of the strikes thrown at him and absorbs only 2.07 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
Nationalitypending
Born inBirmingham, England Wikipedia
Fights out ofBirmingham, England Wikipedia
Camppending
Height5' 6"
Reach66"
StanceOrthodox
Age43
Date of birthOct 15, 1982
Weight125 lbs.
Pro record14-13-1
UFC recordUFC 3-5 first fight 2011-11-05 · last fight 2015-07-18
Finish split3 UFC wins — 1 submission, 2 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Vaughan Lee’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 / min3.47
Striking accuracy47%
Strikes absorbed / min2.07
Striking defence70%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.81
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence72%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Bantamweight 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 Bantamweight.
Striking67
Defence92
Grappling / TD44
Cardio34
Chin50
Fight IQ57

Strike zones

Strike zones

Vaughan Lee

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

HEAD48.8%ACC 36%BODY31.8%ACC 65%LEGS19.4%ACC 75%
FightIQ read Body puncher 31.8% of his landed strikes go to the body — +9.9 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
48.8% acc 36%−12.8 vs field
BODY
31.8% acc 65%+9.9 vs field
LEGS
19.4% acc 75%+2.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 79%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.

8 UFC fights · 258 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Vaughan Lee

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

0.81takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.81 landed per 15 minutes — −1.29 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS20
0.81 / 15m−1.29 vs field
ATTEMPTS23
2.45 / 15m−3.16 vs field
ACCURACY42
33%−8pp vs field
SUB ATT71
1.00 / 15m−0.08 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.50 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 Bantamweight

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.
3.47/min#597 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
3.96/min#519 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
2.07/min#121 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
1.49/min#62 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
47.3%#516 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
46.9%#674 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.
1.00small sample (8 fights)
2.27small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
12%#547 of 803 ranked in the UFC
20%#853 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
72.2%#303 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
82.1%#122 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.
161 sec#775 of 990 ranked in the UFC
227 sec#1,164 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.
98%small sample (4 fights)
100%#354 of 605 ranked in the UFC
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.20 per 15 min#711 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.00 per 15 min#1,162 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
0%#1,037 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#1,098 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
12%#513 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#949 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 2015-07-18.

Recent form

Pro record: 14-13-1. In the UFC: 3-5. Vaughan Lee’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

1 post-fight bonus since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Submission of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2012-02-25SOTNSubmission of the NightNorifumi YamamotoUFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson

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 — 8 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2015-07-18LPaddy HolohanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs Leites
2014-05-31LIuri AlcantaraKO/TKOR1—
2014-03-01WNam PhanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Kim vs Hathaway
2013-06-08LRaphael AssuncaoSubmissionR2UFC on FUEL TV: Nogueira vs. Werdum
2013-02-16WMotonobu TezukaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FUEL TV: Barao vs McDonald
2012-07-11LTJ DillashawSubmissionR1UFC on FUEL TV: Munoz vs Weidman
2012-02-25WNorifumi YamamotoSubmissionR1UFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson
2011-11-05LChris CariasoDecision (split)R3UFC 138: Leben vs Munoz

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 Vaughan Lee 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.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2011Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil — 1 bout, 2013Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2015London, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2013Macau, China — 1 bout, 2014Saitama, Japan — 1 bout, 2012San Jose, California, USA — 1 bout, 2012

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

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