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Raquel Pennington
16-10tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Raquel Pennington’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

Pro record16-10
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W W W W
DivisionWomen's Bantamweight
Age37
Height5' 7"
StanceOrthodox

5' 7" orthodox decision fighter campaigning at Women's Bantamweight. 13 UFC wins — 3 submission, 10 decision. Top 17% of Women's Bantamweights: avoids 61% of the strikes thrown at her.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameRocky
NationalityUnited States
HometownColorado Springs, Colorado
Fighting out ofAltitude MMA
Height5' 7"
Reach67.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age37
Date of birthSep 05, 1988
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record16-10
Finish split13 UFC wins — 3 submission, 10 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Raquel Pennington’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on her official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min4.10
Striking accuracy49%
Strikes absorbed / min3.32
Striking defence61%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.83
Takedown accuracy27%
Takedown defence62%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.60

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Women's Bantamweight 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 Women's Bantamweight.
Striking70
Defence72
Grappling / TD41
Cardio83
Chin85
Fight IQ70

Our calls on Raquel Pennington’s fights

We have not called one of Raquel Pennington’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Raquel Pennington’s fights, 1 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Raquel Pennington

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

HEAD57.8%ACC 38%BODY31.1%ACC 83%LEGS11.1%ACC 89%
FightIQ read Body puncher 31.1% of her landed strikes go to the body — +8.2 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
57.8% acc 38%−3.1 vs field
BODY
31.1% acc 83%+8.2 vs field
LEGS
11.1% acc 89%−5.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 62%CLINCH 30%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.

19 UFC fights · 1,193 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Raquel Pennington

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

0.83takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.83 landed per 15 minutes — −0.87 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS36
0.83 / 15m−0.87 vs field
ATTEMPTS39
3.07 / 15m−1.15 vs field
ACCURACY25
27%−14pp vs field
SUB ATT62
0.60 / 15m−0.13 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.00 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 Women's Bantamweight

Recent form

Pro record: 16-10. In the UFC: 13-6. Raquel Pennington’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 — 19 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2024-10-05LJulianna PenaDecision (split)R5UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr.
2024-01-20WMayra Bueno SilvaDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis
2023-01-14WKetlen VieiraDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Imavov
2022-04-09WAspen LaddDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie
2021-12-18WMacy ChiassonSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus
2021-09-18WPannie KianzadDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann
2020-06-20WMarion ReneauDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Volkov
2020-01-18LHolly HolmDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 246: McGregor vs. Cowboy
2019-07-20WIrene AldanaDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Edwards
2018-11-10LGermaine de RandamieDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Korean Zombie vs. Rodriguez
2018-05-12LAmanda NunesKO/TKOR5UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington
2016-11-12WMiesha TateDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor
2016-08-20WElizabeth PhillipsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2
2016-04-16WBethe CorreiaDecision (split)R3UFC on FOX: Teixeira vs Evans
2015-09-05WJessica AndradeSubmissionR2UFC 191: Johnson vs Dodson 2
2015-02-28LHolly HolmDecision (split)R3UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano
2014-12-06WAshlee Evans-SmithSubmissionR1UFC 181: Hendricks vs Lawler II
2014-03-15LJessica AndradeDecision (split)R3UFC 171: Hendricks vs Lawler
2013-11-30WRoxanne ModafferiDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate 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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