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Felipe Franco

UFC 1-1Pro 11-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Felipe Franco’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder

UFC recordUFC 1-1 first fight 2026-03-21 · last fight 2026-07-18
Pro record11-3
Current streak1 loss
Last 3 (UFC)L W L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age25
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO. Top 17% of Light Heavyweights: stuffs 87% of the takedowns tried on him and connects with 57% of his significant strikes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

Nicknamepending
NationalityBrazil
Hometown (per Sherdog)Salvador, Bahia
CampGalpao da Luta
Height6' 1"
Reach77"
StanceOrthodox
Age25
Date of birthJan 22, 2001
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record11-3
UFC recordUFC 1-1 first fight 2026-03-21 · last fight 2026-07-18
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Felipe Franco’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 / min2.55
Striking accuracy57%
Strikes absorbed / min2.39
Striking defence43%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.70
Takedown accuracy40%
Takedown defence87%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking64
Defence54
Grappling / TD66
Cardio limited sample26
Chin limited sample82
Fight IQ58

Our calls on Felipe Franco’s fights

Every fight of Felipe Franco’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 3 of Felipe Franco’s fights in 2026: 2 correct (2–1 — 66.7% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-10-10Brendson RibeiroFelipe Franco85.3%Missed
2026-07-18Levi Rodrigues JrFelipe Franco50.1%Correct
2026-03-21Mario PintoMario Pinto (against Franco)68.8%Correct

Strike zones

Strike zones

Felipe Franco

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

HEAD85.3%ACC 47%BODY13.1%FIELD 19%LEGS1.6%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Ground striker 44% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
85.3% acc 47%+21.1 vs field
BODY
13.1%−6.0 vs field
LEGS
1.6%−15.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 43%CLINCH 13%GROUND 44%

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.

3 UFC fights · 61 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Felipe Franco

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

3.70takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.70 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.38 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS82
3.70 / 15m+1.38 vs field
ATTEMPTS88
9.25 / 15m+3.75 vs field
ACCURACY49
40%−4pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.60 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.25 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 Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 11-3. In the UFC: 1-1. Felipe Franco’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
2026-10-10LBrendson RibeiroSubmissionR1—
2026-07-18WLevi Rodrigues Jr.KO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Du Plessis vs. Usman
2026-03-21LMario PintoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Evloev vs. Murphy

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 scale

Felipe Franco’s official weigh-ins — the weight the commission read off the scale, and the limit it had to be under.

DateOpponentWeight / limitDivisionSource
2026-07-18Levi Rodrigues205 / 206MADELight HeavyweightUFC.com
2026-03-21Mario Pinto227 / 266MADEHeavyweightUFC.com

Weigh-in results cover the 31 UFC cards held in 2026 so far — 24 January 2026 to 12 September 2026. Earlier years are not on file yet, so a fighter with no row here is not a fighter who never missed weight.

On the map

The 2 cities Felipe Franco has fought a UFC bout in, the camp on the record and the hometown on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

London, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2026Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA — 1 bout, 2026Camp: Galpao da LutaHometown: Salvador, Bahia

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

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