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Ron Waterman
16-6-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Ron Waterman’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Wrestler

Pro record16-6-2
Current streak1 win
Last 4 (UFC)W D L W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age60
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox wrestler campaigning at Heavyweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision. Top 9% of Heavyweights: absorbs only 1.37 significant strikes a minute and averages 2.8 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameH20
NationalityUnited States
HometownGreeley, Colorado
Fighting out ofColorado Stars
Height6' 2"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age60
Date of birthNov 23, 1965
Weight280 lbs.
Pro record16-6-2
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Ron Waterman’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 / min0.84
Striking accuracy50%
Strikes absorbed / min1.37
Striking defence42%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min4.19
Takedown accuracy69%
Takedown defence50%
Sub attempts / 15 min2.80

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the 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 Heavyweight.
Striking38
Defence63
Grappling / TD84
Cardio40
Chin48
Fight IQ55

Strike zones

Strike zones

Ron Waterman

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

HEAD78.5%ACC 65%BODY12.9%FIELD 18%LEGS8.6%FIELD 15%
FightIQ read Ground striker 60% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
78.5% acc 65%+11.7 vs field
BODY
12.9%−5.6 vs field
LEGS
8.6%−6.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 14%CLINCH 26%GROUND 60%

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 sample4 UFC fights · 93 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Ron Waterman

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

4.19takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 4.19 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.80 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS86
4.19 / 15m+1.80 vs field
ATTEMPTS73
6.07 / 15m+1.05 vs field
ACCURACY79
69%+18pp vs field
SUB ATT88
2.80 / 15m+1.15 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 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 Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 16-6-2. In the UFC: 2-1-1. Ron Waterman’s last 4 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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