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Ruan Potts
11-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record11-6
Current streak3 losses
Last 3 (UFC)L L L
DivisionHeavyweight
Age48
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Heavyweight. Top 17% of Heavyweights: averages 2.3 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameFangzz
NationalitySouth Africa
HometownCape Town, Western Cape
Fighting out ofMark Robinson MMA
Height6' 2"
Reach75.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age48
Date of birthFeb 23, 1978
Weight247 lbs.
Pro record11-6
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Ruan Potts’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 / min0.85
Striking accuracy37%
Strikes absorbed / min5.92
Striking defence22%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.75
Takedown accuracy16%
Takedown defence33%
Sub attempts / 15 min2.30

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.
Striking17
Defence11
Grappling / TD37
Cardio Round-2 tape only limited sample7
Chin limited sample36
Fight IQ22

Strike zones

Strike zones

Ruan Potts

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

HEAD53.0%ACC 30%BODY17.6%FIELD 18%LEGS29.4%FIELD 15%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 29.4% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +14.7 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
53.0% acc 30%−13.8 vs field
BODY
17.6%−0.9 vs field
LEGS
29.4%+14.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 76%CLINCH 12%GROUND 12%

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 sample3 UFC fights · 17 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Ruan Potts

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

0.75takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 2.30 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +0.65 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS23
0.75 / 15m−1.64 vs field
ATTEMPTS60
4.69 / 15m−0.33 vs field
ACCURACY5
16%−35pp vs field
SUB ATT83
2.30 / 15m+0.65 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: 11-6. In the UFC: 0-3. Ruan Potts’s last 3 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 — 3 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2015-02-28LDerrick LewisKO/TKOR2UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano
2014-08-30LAnthony HamiltonKO/TKOR2UFC 177: Dillashaw vs Soto
2014-05-10LSoa PaleleiKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Brown vs Silva

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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