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Francis Ngannou
17-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Francis Ngannou’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

Pro record17-3
Current streak6 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W W W W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age39
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox power striker campaigning at Heavyweight. 12 UFC wins — 10 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 1 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Predator
NationalityFrance
HometownParis
Fighting out ofXtreme Couture
Height6' 4"
Reach83.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age39
Date of birthSep 05, 1986
Weight250 lbs.
Pro record17-3
Finish split12 UFC wins — 10 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Francis Ngannou’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 / min2.33
Striking accuracy41%
Strikes absorbed / min2.16
Striking defence41%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.76
Takedown accuracy62%
Takedown defence71%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.30

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.
Striking39
Defence54
Grappling / TD38
Cardio7
Chin98
Fight IQ47

Strike zones

Strike zones

Francis Ngannou

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

HEAD68.1%ACC 34%BODY17.9%ACC 64%LEGS14.0%ACC 89%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 68.1% upstairs — +1.3 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
68.1% acc 34%+1.3 vs field
BODY
17.9% acc 64%−0.6 vs field
LEGS
14.0% acc 89%−0.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 66%CLINCH 16%GROUND 19%

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.

14 UFC fights · 229 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Francis Ngannou

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

0.76takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.76 takedowns and 0.30 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS24
0.76 / 15m−1.63 vs field
ATTEMPTS15
1.23 / 15m−3.79 vs field
ACCURACY73
62%+11pp vs field
SUB ATT16
0.30 / 15m−1.35 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: 17-3. In the UFC: 12-2. Francis Ngannou’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 — 14 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2022-01-22WCiryl GaneDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 270: Ngannou vs. Gane
2021-03-27WStipe MiocicKO/TKOR2UFC 260: Miocic vs. Ngannou
2020-05-09WJairzinho RozenstruikKO/TKOR1UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje
2019-06-29WJunior Dos SantosKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Dos Santos
2019-02-17WCain VelasquezKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Velasquez
2018-11-24WCurtis BlaydesKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Ngannou 2
2018-07-07LDerrick LewisDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier
2018-01-20LStipe MiocicDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou
2017-12-02WAlistair OvereemKO/TKOR1UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2
2017-01-28WAndrei ArlovskiKO/TKOR1UFC on FOX: Shevchenko vs. Pena
2016-12-09WAnthony HamiltonSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Abdurakhimov
2016-07-23WBojan MihajlovicKO/TKOR1UFC on FOX: Holm vs. Shevchenko
2016-04-10WCurtis BlaydesTKO (doctor)R2UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs Dos Santos
2015-12-19WLuis HenriqueKO/TKOR2UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2

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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