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Renato Sobral
37-11tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record37-11
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L L W W
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age50
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 6 UFC wins — 4 submission, 2 decision. Top 9% of Light Heavyweights: absorbs only 1.53 significant strikes a minute and averages 2.6 submission attempts per 15 minutes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameBabalu
NationalityBrazil
HometownRio de Janeiro
Fighting out ofpending
Height6' 1"
Reach75.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age50
Date of birthSep 07, 1975
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record37-11
Finish split6 UFC wins — 4 submission, 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Renato Sobral’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 / min2.23
Striking accuracy45%
Strikes absorbed / min1.53
Striking defence57%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.48
Takedown accuracy42%
Takedown defence65%
Sub attempts / 15 min2.60

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.
Striking45
Defence84
Grappling / TD71
Cardio24
Chin18
Fight IQ48

Strike zones

Strike zones

Renato Sobral

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

HEAD67.9%ACC 45%BODY15.4%ACC 76%LEGS16.7%ACC 87%
FightIQ read Ground striker 65% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
67.9% acc 45%+4.1 vs field
BODY
15.4% acc 76%−3.8 vs field
LEGS
16.7% acc 87%−0.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 23%CLINCH 12%GROUND 65%

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.

10 UFC fights · 162 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Renato Sobral

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

2.48takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 2.60 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +1.01 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS71
2.48 / 15m+0.21 vs field
ATTEMPTS63
5.90 / 15m+0.47 vs field
ACCURACY55
42%−1pp vs field
SUB ATT88
2.60 / 15m+1.01 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: 37-11. In the UFC: 6-4. Renato Sobral’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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