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Rousimar Palhares
19-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Rousimar Palhares’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler

Pro record19-8
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L L W W
DivisionMiddleweight
Age46
Height5' 8"
StanceOrthodox

5' 8" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Middleweight. 8 UFC wins — 6 submission, 2 decision. Top 6% of Middleweights: averages 4.1 submission attempts per 15 minutes and averages 3.93 takedowns 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameToquinho
NationalityBrazil
HometownDores do Indaia, Minas Gerais
Fighting out ofTeam Nogueira
Height5' 8"
Reach71.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age46
Date of birthFeb 26, 1980
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record19-8
Finish split8 UFC wins — 6 submission, 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Rousimar Palhares’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 / min1.75
Striking accuracy51%
Strikes absorbed / min2.04
Striking defence59%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.93
Takedown accuracy45%
Takedown defence0%
Sub attempts / 15 min4.10

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking51
Defence80
Grappling / TD79
Cardio61
Chin20
Fight IQ58

Strike zones

Strike zones

Rousimar Palhares

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

HEAD71.0%ACC 44%BODY9.9%FIELD 21%LEGS19.1%ACC 86%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 71.0% upstairs — +7.4 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
71.0% acc 44%+7.4 vs field
BODY
9.9%−10.7 vs field
LEGS
19.1% acc 86%+3.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 67%CLINCH 7%GROUND 26%

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.

12 UFC fights · 131 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Rousimar Palhares

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

3.93takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.93 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.66 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS88
3.93 / 15m+1.66 vs field
ATTEMPTS84
8.73 / 15m+3.41 vs field
ACCURACY55
45%−2pp vs field
SUB ATT94
4.10 / 15m+2.54 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 19-8. In the UFC: 8-4. Rousimar Palhares’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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