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Dante Rivera
16-7tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record16-7
Current streak1 loss
Last 1 (UFC)L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age51
Height6' 1"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 1" southpaw all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
HometownJackson, New Jersey
Fighting out ofRenzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Height6' 1"
Reachpending
StanceSouthpaw
Age51
Date of birthDec 08, 1974
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record16-7
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Dante Rivera’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 / min2.27
Striking accuracy53%
Strikes absorbed / min4.00
Striking defence25%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.00
Takedown accuracy0%
Takedown defence16%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking61
Defence16
Grappling / TDn/a
Cardio limited sample18
Chin limited sample67
Fight IQ40

Strike zones

Strike zones

Dante Rivera

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

HEAD32.4%ACC 42%BODY55.8%ACC 56%LEGS11.8%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Body puncher 55.8% of his landed strikes go to the body — +35.2 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
32.4% acc 42%−31.2 vs field
BODY
55.8% acc 56%+35.2 vs field
LEGS
11.8%−4.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 26%CLINCH 71%GROUND 3%

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.

Limited sample1 UFC fights · 34 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Dante Rivera

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

0.00takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.00 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.27 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m−2.27 vs field
ATTEMPTS
Attempts per 15 needs both a landed rate and a completion rate; one of them is missing, so we do not divide.
n/a
ACCURACY
No takedown attempt on the record — UFCStats writes 0% here, which is not a completion rate.
n/a
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.56 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 16-7. In the UFC: 0-1. Dante Rivera’s last 1 UFC bout, 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 — 1 bout every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2008-06-21LMatthew RiddleDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest Finale

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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