Phil Johns

Fight History

Skill Breakdown

Charts are compiled based on results from 1 fights.

Summary:

Takedowns, hard puncher

Fighter Info

Nickname:	Little Giant
From:	Canton, Illinois - USA USA
Age:	44
Height:	5' 2" ( 157 cm )
Weight:	154 lb ( 70 kg )

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Striking

Total Attempted Strikes

67% Successful

Types of Successful Strikes

50% Standing

50% Clinch

Striking Defense

The percentage of total strikes avoided

Grappling

Total Takedowns

0% Successful

Grappling Totals by Type

Subm.

Passes

Sweeps

Takedown Defense

The percentage of total takedowns avoided

Result	Fighters	Event	Str	TD	Sub	Pass	Method	Replay
Loss	Fabiano Iha	UFC® 30: The Battle On The Boardwalk Feb 23, 2001	3	1	1	2	R1 Submission	Ways To Watch
Loss	Phil Johns	UFC® 30: The Battle On The Boardwalk Feb 23, 2001	2	0	0	0	R1 Submission	Ways To Watch

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Biography

Training Style

"With my Thai Boxing coach I do a lot of mitt work and a lot of sparring. After that I grapple for a good portion of the time. At my school we will do a lot of mitts, a lot of kicks, and a lot of "grapple-boxing" (grappling while striking with boxing gloves). I spar and grapple full out every practice. Lot's of technique drills, running hills, and plyometrics. I do this two hours a day 5 to 6 days a week.

UFC History

UFC 30

More Information

Phil is a school teacher and teaches grades kindergarten through fifth grade. He has taught for seven years now.

Phil started wrestling in 5th grade. "I took to it instantaneously. I was a pretty tough child. I raced motorcycles and boxed. I went out there and loved it."

Phil was a state champion in Jr. high. In high school his overall record was 156 and 6 and he was the state champion. In college (SIU Edwardsville) he was a four time All American. He won the Nationals at NCAA Division 2.

"I had a friend named Jason Strandberg who said that he had some things he wanted to show me. I was inactive in wrestling having taken a few years off due to my wife and I having a child. He asked me to take him down and different things and he was catching me with all of these submissions. It pissed me off that a guy that was not as muscular as me and a guy that was not as schooled in wrestling as I was catching me with things that I could never had dreamed could happen. Being the kind of guy I am it made me want to learn it. I didn't know anything about the UFC at that point. Later on they started showing me the tapes. That fueled the fire. I told myself I was going to do it.

Phil started fighting in 1997. At that time most competitions did not have weight classes. He weighed 157 for his first fight and his opponent weighed in at 240. Phil beat him in around 30 seconds.

Phil's MMA record is 21 and 9. Most of those losses came in his first year against much larger opponents.

"I'm really excited to fight in the UFC. A little nervous. He's a tough fighter to have first time in there. I'm not fighting a chump."

Career

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