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Pedro Rizzo

UFC 9-5Pro 20-11tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Pedro Rizzo’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

UFC recordUFC 9-5 first fight 1998-10-16 · last fight 2003-11-21
Pro record20-11
Current streak2 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W L L W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age52
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox power striker campaigning at Heavyweight. 9 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 2 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameThe Rock
NationalityBrazil
Born inRio de Janeiro, Brazil Wikipedia
Fights out ofRio de Janeiro, Brazil Wikipedia
CampRuas Vale Tudo
Height6' 1"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age52
Date of birthMay 03, 1974
Weight241 lbs.
Pro record20-11
UFC recordUFC 9-5 first fight 1998-10-16 · last fight 2003-11-21
Finish split9 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Pedro Rizzo’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 / min1.93
Striking accuracy34%
Strikes absorbed / min3.02
Striking defence50%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.26
Takedown accuracy28%
Takedown defence78%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

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.
Striking25
Defence59
Grappling / TD11
Cardio16
Chin74
Fight IQ37

Strike zones

Strike zones

Pedro Rizzo

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

HEAD50.7%ACC 24%BODY5.6%FIELD 18%LEGS43.7%ACC 78%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 43.7% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +29.2 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
50.7% acc 24%−16.3 vs field
BODY
5.6%−12.9 vs field
LEGS
43.7% acc 78%+29.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 74%CLINCH 13%GROUND 14%

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.

14 UFC fights · 286 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Pedro Rizzo

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

0.26takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.26 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.13 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS4
0.26 / 15m−2.13 vs field
ATTEMPTS13
0.93 / 15m−4.13 vs field
ACCURACY18
28%−23pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.71 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.29 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

Deep stats facts

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.

 CareerLast 5 fights
Striking
Strikes landedSignificant strikes landed per minute of fight time.
1.75/min#1,165 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
2.19/min#1,430 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
2.20/min#158 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
2.28/min#279 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
36.9%#1,079 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
37.4%#1,434 of 1,752 ranked in the UFC
Durability
Knockdowns per 100 head strikesKnockdowns suffered for every 100 head strikes absorbed. Lower means more punishment taken without going down.
0.42small sample (14 fights)
1.39small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
14%#447 of 803 ranked in the UFC
20%#922 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
77.5%#132 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
85.3%#61 of 1,498 ranked in the UFC
Get-up speedSeconds the opponent stays in control after each takedown landed on this fighter. Lower means back on their feet faster.
116 sec#491 of 990 ranked in the UFC
93 sec#427 of 1,245 ranked in the UFC
Cardio and late rounds
Round-3 pace kept†Round-3 striking pace as a share of round-1 pace. 100% means no fade.
157%small sample (4 fights)
160%small sample (2 fights)
Five-round win rate†Share of decided five-round fights won.
0%#192 of 195 ranked in the UFC
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Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.78 per 15 min#126 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.27 per 15 min#694 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
43%#67 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
20%#644 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%#775 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#1,065 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC

† Needs round-by-round data, which is missing for some UFC bouts. Those fights are left out, not estimated.

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 2003-11-21.

Recent form

Pro record: 20-11. In the UFC: 9-5. Pedro Rizzo’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.

Full UFC career — 14 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2003-11-21WRicco RodriguezDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 45: Revolution
2003-06-06WTra TelligmanTKO (doctor)R2UFC 43: Meltdown
2003-02-28LVladimir MatyushenkoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 41: Onslaught
2002-09-27LGan McGeeKO/TKOR1UFC 39: The Warriors Return
2002-03-22WAndrei ArlovskiKO/TKOR3UFC 36: Worlds Collide
2001-11-02LRandy CoutureKO/TKOR3UFC 34: High Voltage
2001-05-04LRandy CoutureDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 31: Locked and Loaded
2001-02-23WJosh BarnettKO/TKOR2UFC 30: Battle on the Boardwalk
2000-09-22WDan SevernKO/TKOR1UFC 27: Ultimate Bad Boyz
2000-06-09LKevin RandlemanDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 26: Ultimate Field Of Dreams
1999-11-19WTsuyoshi KohsakaKO/TKOR3UFC 23: Ultimate Japan 2
1999-05-07WTra TelligmanKO/TKOR1UFC 20: Battle for the Gold
1999-01-08WMark ColemanDecision (split)R2UFC 18: The Road to the Heavyweight Title
1998-10-16WDavid AbbottKO/TKOR1UFC - Ultimate Brazil

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.

On the map

The 8 cities Pedro Rizzo 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.

Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA — 3 bouts, 2001–2003Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 3 bouts, 2001–2003New Orleans, Louisiana, USA — 2 bouts, 1999–2000Uncasville, Connecticut, USA — 2 bouts, 2002–2003Birmingham, Alabama, USA — 1 bout, 1999Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA — 1 bout, 2000Chiba, Japan — 1 bout, 1999Sao Paulo, Brazil — 1 bout, 1998

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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