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The Clinch

United States of America “The Goat” 2005-2009 · 7 rounds on file

Nick Thompson

1-3-0 W-L-D in this database

Nick Thompson, photograph by Joh02639 at English Wikipedia
Strike accuracy 53/125
Takedown accuracy 2/2
Sig. strikes / round 7.6
Control / round 1:03
Inside the distance 0% 0 of 1 wins
Height
6′1″185.4 cm
Reach
74″188 cm
Leg reach
--
Stance
Orthodox
Age
4523 JUN 1981
Listed weight
170 lb77.1 kg
Submission Grappler Automatically assigned from data across 4 fights - 0.9 takedown attempts and 37% control time per 15 minutes.

Who they have fought

Every completed bout, grouped by the opponent's style.

Grappling 3 0-3-0 vs 1576 avg
Positional Controller 2 0-2-0
Submission Grappler 1 0-1-0
Hybrid 1 1-0-0 vs 1474 avg
Well-Rounded 1 1-0-0

Opponent styles are assigned from their own fight data, not from a training background. They describe how those opponents have fought. Bars scale against 3 bouts, the largest group.

The career, in order

One bar per bout, oldest on the left. Height is the significant strikes landed in that fight.

19 NOV 2005 - beat Keith Wisniewski · Decision (Unanimous) 15 APR 2006 - lost to Karo Parisyan · Technical Knockout 26 JUL 2008 - lost to Jake Shields · Submission 19 JUN 2009 - lost to Tim Kennedy · Technical Knockout

Won Lost Draw / no contest

What they do with a round

Summed over 7 rounds across 4 of 4 bouts - the ones the corpus has per-round observations for.

Per round

Sig. strikes landed 7.6
Sig. strikes absorbed 7.3
Takedowns landed 0.3
Knockdowns 0.0
Sub. attempts 0.7
Control time 1:03 of each 5:00 round

Accuracy

Sig. strikes 42% 53/125
Takedowns 100% 2/2
Opponents’ accuracy 50% 51/101

Where the strikes land

Head 64% 34
Body 26% 14
Leg 9% 5

And from where

At distance 32% 17
In the clinch 13% 7
On the ground 55% 29

How the bouts ended

KO / TKO 0 won Technical Knockout · 0-2
Submission 0 won Submission · 0-1
Decision 1 won Decision (Unanimous) · 1-0

Every bout

Most recent first. Struck and absorbed are significant strikes.

Date Opponent Result Method End Struck Absorbed Event
19 JUN 2009 Tim Kennedy Lost Technical Knockout R2 2:37 3 18 Strikeforce Challengers 2
26 JUL 2008 Jake Shields Lost Submission R1 1:03 0 1 EliteXC - Unfinished Business
15 APR 2006 Karo Parisyan Lost Technical Knockout R1 4:44 2 18 UFC 59: Reality Check
19 NOV 2005 Keith Wisniewski Won Decision (Unanimous) R3 5:00 48 14 UFC 56: Full Force

Photographs on this page

  • Nick Thompson - Joh02639 at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped.