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Richard Walsh
9-5tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record9-5
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L L
DivisionWelterweight
Age37
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 2 UFC wins — 2 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameFilthy Rich
NationalityAustralia
HometownSydney, New South Wales
Fighting out ofVT1 Martial Arts Academy
Height6' 0"
Reach73.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age37
Date of birthDec 01, 1988
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record9-5
Finish split2 UFC wins — 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Richard Walsh’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 / min3.84
Striking accuracy46%
Strikes absorbed / min2.72
Striking defence58%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.55
Takedown accuracy40%
Takedown defence66%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight 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 Welterweight.
Striking68
Defence69
Grappling / TD36
Cardio44
Chin69
Fight IQ57

Strike zones

Strike zones

Richard Walsh

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

HEAD62.6%ACC 39%BODY17.5%ACC 62%LEGS19.9%ACC 81%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 63% head / 18% body / 20% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
62.6% acc 39%+0.3 vs field
BODY
17.5% acc 62%−3.6 vs field
LEGS
19.9% acc 81%+3.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 54%CLINCH 25%GROUND 22%

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.

6 UFC fights · 297 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Richard Walsh

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

1.55takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.55 landed per 15 minutes — −0.44 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS51
1.55 / 15m−0.44 vs field
ATTEMPTS46
3.88 / 15m−1.06 vs field
ACCURACY48
40%−6pp vs field
SUB ATT10
0.20 / 15m−1.12 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 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 Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 9-5. In the UFC: 2-4. Richard Walsh’s last 6 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 — 6 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2016-11-26LJonathan MeunierDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Brunson
2016-03-19LViscardi AndradeDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs Mir
2015-11-14WSteve KennedyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 193: Rousey vs Holm
2015-02-28LAlan JoubanKO/TKOR1UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano
2014-09-20LKiichi KunimotoDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs Nelson
2014-04-16WChris IndichDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs Kennedy

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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