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Ricardo Romero
11-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Ricardo Romero’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record11-3
Current streak2 losses
Last 3 (UFC)L L W
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age48
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 1 UFC win — 1 submission. Best of Light Heavyweights: stuffs 100% of the takedowns tried on him and averages 3.3 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityUnited States
HometownNorth Brunswick, New Jersey
Fighting out ofAMA Fight Club
Height6' 0"
Reach76.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age48
Date of birthApr 15, 1978
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record11-3
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 submission

Career rates facts

Career averages over Ricardo Romero’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 / min2.17
Striking accuracy55%
Strikes absorbed / min4.77
Striking defence46%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.63
Takedown accuracy10%
Takedown defence100%
Sub attempts / 15 min3.30

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.
Striking61
Defence33
Grappling / TD48
Cardio Round-2 tape only limited sample75
Chin limited sample2
Fight IQ44

Strike zones

Strike zones

Ricardo Romero

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

HEAD70.0%ACC 47%BODY30.0%FIELD 19%LEGS0.0%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Ground striker 65% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
70.0% acc 47%+6.2 vs field
BODY
30.0%+10.8 vs field
LEGS
0.0%−17.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 35%CLINCH 0%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.

Limited sample3 UFC fights · 20 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Ricardo Romero

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

1.63takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 3.30 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +1.71 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS51
1.63 / 15m−0.64 vs field
ATTEMPTS97
16.30 / 15m+10.87 vs field
ACCURACY3
10%−33pp vs field
SUB ATT89
3.30 / 15m+1.71 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: 11-3. In the UFC: 1-2. Ricardo Romero’s last 3 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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