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Ruan Potts

UFC 0-3Pro 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

UFC recordUFC 0-3 first fight 2014-05-10 · last fight 2015-02-28
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 19% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 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 social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameFangzz
NationalitySouth Africa
Born inCape Town, South Africa Wikipedia
Fights out ofBoksburg, South Africa Wikipedia
CampMark Robinson MMA
Height6' 2"
Reach75"
StanceOrthodox
Age48
Date of birthFeb 23, 1978
Weight247 lbs.
Pro record11-6
UFC recordUFC 0-3 first fight 2014-05-10 · last fight 2015-02-28
Finish splitpending
Social

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
Defence12
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 14%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 29.4% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +14.9 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
53.0% acc 30%−14.0 vs field
BODY
17.6%−0.9 vs field
LEGS
29.4%+14.9 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 — +0.59 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS24
0.75 / 15m−1.64 vs field
ATTEMPTS60
4.69 / 15m−0.37 vs field
ACCURACY6
16%−35pp vs field
SUB ATT81
2.30 / 15m+0.59 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.
0.85/minsmall sample (3 fights)
0.85/min#1,797 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
5.92/minsmall sample (3 fights)
5.92/min#1,675 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
37.8%small sample (3 fights)
37.8%small sample (3 fights)
Durability
Knockdowns per 100 head strikesKnockdowns suffered for every 100 head strikes absorbed. Lower means more punishment taken without going down.
0.00small sample (3 fights)
0.00small sample (3 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
100%small sample (3 fights)
100%small sample (3 fights)
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
33.3%small sample (3 fights)
33.3%#1,347 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 secsmall sample (3 fights)
116 sec#661 of 1,245 ranked in the UFC
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.00 per 15 minsmall sample (3 fights)
0.00 per 15 min#1,727 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
0%small sample (3 fights)
0%#1,756 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
0%small sample (3 fights)
0%#1,744 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC

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 2015-02-28.

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.

On the map

The 3 cities Ruan Potts 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.

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA — 1 bout, 2014Los Angeles, California, USA — 1 bout, 2015Sacramento, California, USA — 1 bout, 2014

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

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