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Ben Rothwell
39-14tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Ben Rothwell’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher

Pro record39-14
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L W W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age44
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Heavyweight. 9 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 2 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
HometownKenosha, Wisconsin
Fighting out ofRothwell MMA
Height6' 4"
Reach78.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age44
Date of birthOct 17, 1981
Weight265 lbs.
Pro record39-14
Finish split9 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Ben Rothwell’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 / min3.71
Striking accuracy42%
Strikes absorbed / min4.63
Striking defence47%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.68
Takedown accuracy34%
Takedown defence70%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Heavyweight 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 Heavyweight.
Striking56
Defence39
Grappling / TD25
Cardio51
Chin78
Fight IQ50

Strike zones

Strike zones

Ben Rothwell

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

HEAD72.8%ACC 37%BODY16.0%ACC 80%LEGS11.2%ACC 93%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 72.8% upstairs — +6.0 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
72.8% acc 37%+6.0 vs field
BODY
16.0% acc 80%−2.5 vs field
LEGS
11.2% acc 93%−3.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 79%CLINCH 13%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.

17 UFC fights · 681 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Ben Rothwell

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

0.68takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.68 takedowns and 0.40 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS19
0.68 / 15m−1.71 vs field
ATTEMPTS25
2.00 / 15m−3.02 vs field
ACCURACY31
34%−17pp vs field
SUB ATT26
0.40 / 15m−1.25 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 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 Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 39-14. In the UFC: 9-8. Ben Rothwell’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.

Full UFC career — 17 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2021-11-13LMarcos Rogerio de LimaKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Rodriguez
2021-05-22WChris BarnettSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Garbrandt
2020-10-10LMarcin TyburaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. Sandhagen
2020-05-13WOvince Saint PreuxDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teixeira
2019-12-07WStefan StruveKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Rozenstruik
2019-07-20LAndrei ArlovskiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Edwards
2019-03-09LBlagoy IvanovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Dos Santos
2016-04-10LJunior Dos SantosDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs Dos Santos
2016-01-30WJosh BarnettSubmissionR2UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Bader
2015-06-06WMatt MitrioneSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Boetsch vs Henderson
2014-09-05WAlistair OvereemKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs Mousasi
2013-08-31WBrandon VeraKO/TKOR3UFC 164: Henderson vs Pettis 2
2013-01-19LGabriel GonzagaSubmissionR2UFC on FX: Belfort vs Bisping
2012-04-21WBrendan SchaubKO/TKOR1UFC 145: Jones vs Evans
2011-09-24LMark HuntDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 135: Jones vs Rampage
2010-06-12WGilbert YvelDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 115: Liddell vs Franklin
2009-10-24LCain VelasquezKO/TKOR2UFC 104: Machida vs Shogun

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.

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