Built from Randy Couture’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher
6' 1" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 16 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 5 decision. Top 9% of Light Heavyweights: absorbs only 1.53 significant strikes a minute and connects with 57% of his significant strikes.
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.
| Nickname | The Natural |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown | Corvallis, Oregon |
| Fighting out of | Xtreme Couture |
| Height | 6' 1" |
| Reach | 75.0" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 63 |
| Date of birth | Jun 22, 1963 |
| Weight | 205 lbs. |
| Pro record | 19-11 |
| Finish split | 16 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 5 decision |
Career averages over Randy Couture’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.
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.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
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.
Pro record: 19-11. In the UFC: 16-8. Randy Couture’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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-04-30 | L | Lyoto Machida | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 129: St-Pierre vs Shields |
| 2010-08-28 | W | James Toney | Submission | R1 | UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2 |
| 2010-02-06 | W | Mark Coleman | Submission | R2 | UFC 109: Relentless |
| 2009-11-14 | W | Brandon Vera | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 105: Couture vs Vera |
| 2009-08-29 | L | Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 102: Couture vs Nogueira |
| 2008-11-15 | L | Brock Lesnar | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 91: Couture vs Lesnar |
| 2007-08-25 | W | Gabriel Gonzaga | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 74: Respect |
| 2007-03-03 | W | Tim Sylvia | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 68: The Uprising |
| 2006-02-04 | L | Chuck Liddell | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 57: Liddell vs Couture 3 |
| 2005-08-20 | W | Mike van Arsdale | Submission | R3 | UFC 54: Boiling Point |
| 2005-04-16 | L | Chuck Liddell | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 52: Couture vs Liddell 2 |
| 2004-08-21 | W | Vitor Belfort | TKO (doctor) | R3 | UFC 49: Unfinished Business |
| 2004-01-31 | L | Vitor Belfort | TKO (doctor) | R1 | UFC 46: Supernatural |
| 2003-09-26 | W | Tito Ortiz | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 44: Undisputed |
| 2003-06-06 | W | Chuck Liddell | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 43: Meltdown |
| 2002-09-27 | L | Ricco Rodriguez | KO/TKO | R5 | UFC 39: The Warriors Return |
| 2002-03-22 | L | Josh Barnett | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 36: Worlds Collide |
| 2001-11-02 | W | Pedro Rizzo | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 34: High Voltage |
| 2001-05-04 | W | Pedro Rizzo | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 31: Locked and Loaded |
| 2000-11-17 | W | Kevin Randleman | KO/TKO | R3 | UFC 28: High Stakes |
| 1997-12-21 | W | Maurice Smith | Decision (majority) | R3 | UFC - Ultimate Japan |
| 1997-10-17 | W | Vitor Belfort | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 15: Collision Course |
| 1997-05-30 | W | Steven Graham | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 13: The Ultimate Force |
| 1997-05-30 | W | Tony Halme | Submission | R1 | UFC 13: The Ultimate Force |
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.