Built from Marco Ruas’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler
6' 1" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Heavyweight. 4 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 3 submission.
The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.
| Nickname | King of the Streets |
| Nationality | Brazil |
| Born in | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Wikipedia |
| Fights out of | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Wikipedia |
| Camp | Ruas Vale Tudo |
| Height | 6' 1" |
| Reach | pending |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 65 |
| Date of birth | Jan 23, 1961 |
| Weight | 210 lbs. |
| Pro record | 9-4-2 |
| UFC record | UFC 4-2 first fight 1995-09-08 · last fight 1999-07-16 |
| Finish split | 4 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 3 submission |
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.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
No takedown data
UFCStats records no takedown or submission activity for this fighter in either direction — usually a fighter with no UFC bout on the tape. A row of zeroes would read as a measured weakness; this is an absence, and we show it as one.
Career and last-five-fight figures from round-by-round UFC records, with where each ranks among every UFC fighter who has fought enough to be ranked. Tap a stat name for the full leaderboard.
Every figure is built from UFC fights that have round-by-round data. Some older bouts do not, and are left out rather than estimated. Figures to 1999-07-16.
Pro record: 9-4-2. In the UFC: 4-2. Marco Ruas’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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-07-16 | L | Maurice Smith | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 21: Return of the Champions |
| 1995-12-16 | W | Keith Hackney | Submission | R1 | UFC - Ultimate Ultimate '95 |
| 1995-12-16 | L | Oleg Taktarov | Decision (unanimous) | R1 | UFC - Ultimate Ultimate '95 |
| 1995-09-08 | W | Remco Pardoel | Submission | R1 | UFC 7: The Brawl in Buffalo |
| 1995-09-08 | W | Larry Cureton | Submission | R1 | UFC 7: The Brawl in Buffalo |
| 1995-09-08 | W | Paul Varelans | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 7: The Brawl in Buffalo |
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.
The 3 cities Marco Ruas has fought a UFC bout in. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.