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Rich Franklin
29-7tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Rich Franklin’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

Pro record29-7
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L W L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age51
Height6' 1"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 1" southpaw power striker campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 14 UFC wins — 9 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 4 decision. Top 11% of Light Heavyweights: avoids 62% of the strikes thrown at him and completes 66% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameAce
NationalityUnited States
HometownCincinnati, Ohio
Fighting out ofTeam Extreme
Height6' 1"
Reach76.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age51
Date of birthOct 05, 1974
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record29-7
Finish split14 UFC wins — 9 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 4 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Rich Franklin’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 / min4.10
Striking accuracy44%
Strikes absorbed / min2.07
Striking defence62%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.31
Takedown accuracy66%
Takedown defence63%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.70

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.
Striking62
Defence85
Grappling / TD58
Cardio88
Chin37
Fight IQ66

Strike zones

Strike zones

Rich Franklin

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

HEAD65.3%ACC 35%BODY23.1%ACC 78%LEGS11.6%ACC 91%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 65% head / 23% body / 12% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
65.3% acc 35%+1.5 vs field
BODY
23.1% acc 78%+3.9 vs field
LEGS
11.6% acc 91%−5.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 70%CLINCH 18%GROUND 13%

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.

20 UFC fights · 856 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Rich Franklin

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

1.31takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.31 landed per 15 minutes — −0.96 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS41
1.31 / 15m−0.96 vs field
ATTEMPTS18
1.98 / 15m−3.45 vs field
ACCURACY88
66%+23pp vs field
SUB ATT45
0.70 / 15m−0.89 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: 29-7. In the UFC: 14-6. Rich Franklin’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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