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Rob Emerson
18-12tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record18-12
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L L W
DivisionLightweight
Age45
Height5' 9"
StanceOrthodox

5' 9" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 3 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 2 decision. Top 12% of Lightweights: avoids 64% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameThe Saint
NationalityUnited States
HometownNewport Beach, California
Fighting out ofMMA Lab
Height5' 9"
Reach70.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age45
Date of birthJul 30, 1981
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record18-12
Finish split3 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Rob Emerson’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 / min2.50
Striking accuracy30%
Strikes absorbed / min2.83
Striking defence64%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.02
Takedown accuracy52%
Takedown defence65%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.40

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight 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 Lightweight.
Striking28
Defence78
Grappling / TD54
Cardio23
Chin71
Fight IQ51

Strike zones

Strike zones

Rob Emerson

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

HEAD56.2%ACC 20%BODY11.4%ACC 75%LEGS32.4%ACC 91%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 32.4% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +15.3 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
56.2% acc 20%−5.9 vs field
BODY
11.4% acc 75%−9.4 vs field
LEGS
32.4% acc 91%+15.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 75%CLINCH 15%GROUND 11%

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.

7 UFC fights · 185 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Rob Emerson

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

2.02takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 2.02 takedowns per 15 minutes at 52% completion — +8pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS60
2.02 / 15m−0.11 vs field
ATTEMPTS42
3.88 / 15m−1.52 vs field
ACCURACY76
52%+8pp vs field
SUB ATT27
0.40 / 15m−0.90 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.22 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 Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 18-12. In the UFC: 3-3-1. Rob Emerson’s last 7 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 — 7 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2010-03-31LNik LentzDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Florian vs Gomi
2010-02-06WPhillipe NoverDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 109: Relentless
2009-09-19LRafael Dos AnjosDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 103: Franklin vs Belfort
2009-02-07LKurt PellegrinoSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Lauzon vs Stephens
2008-08-09WManvel GamburyanKO/TKOR1UFC 87: Seek And Destroy
2008-02-02WKeita NakamuraDecision (split)R3UFC 81: Breaking Point
2007-06-23DGray MaynardCould not continueR2The Ultimate Fighter: Team Pulver vs. Team Penn 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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