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Ken Shamrock
28-17-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Ken Shamrock’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler

Pro record28-17-2
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age62
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 6 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 4 submission. Top 13% of Light Heavyweights: averages 2.5 submission attempts per 15 minutes and completes 60% of his takedown attempts.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 World's Most Dangerous Man
NationalityUnited States
HometownSan Diego, California
Fighting out ofLion's Den
Height6' 1"
Reach72.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age62
Date of birthFeb 11, 1964
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record28-17-2
Finish split6 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 4 submission

Career rates facts

Career averages over Ken Shamrock’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 / min1.47
Striking accuracy46%
Strikes absorbed / min4.30
Striking defence39%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.94
Takedown accuracy60%
Takedown defence44%
Sub attempts / 15 min2.50

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking38
Defence26
Grappling / TD66
Cardio limited sample51
Chin59
Fight IQ48

Strike zones

Strike zones

Ken Shamrock

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

HEAD67.6%ACC 32%BODY25.6%ACC 88%LEGS6.8%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Ground striker 57% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
67.6% acc 32%+3.8 vs field
BODY
25.6% acc 88%+6.4 vs field
LEGS
6.8%−10.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 20%CLINCH 23%GROUND 57%

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.

13 UFC fights · 117 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Ken Shamrock

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

0.94takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 2.50 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +0.91 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS27
0.94 / 15m−1.33 vs field
ATTEMPTS13
1.57 / 15m−3.87 vs field
ACCURACY84
60%+17pp vs field
SUB ATT87
2.50 / 15m+0.91 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.96 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 Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 28-17-2. In the UFC: 6-5-2. Ken Shamrock’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.

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