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Francisco Rivera

UFC 4-6 (1 draw/NC)Pro 11-7tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 4-6 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2011-06-04 · last fight 2016-07-30
Pro record11-7
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W L
DivisionBantamweight
Age45
Height5' 8"
StanceOrthodox

5' 8" orthodox power striker campaigning at Bantamweight. 4 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 decision. Top 5% of Bantamweights: avoids 68% of the strikes thrown at him and completes 63% of his takedown attempts.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameCisco
Nationalitypending
Hometownpending
Camppending
Height5' 8"
Reach70"
StanceOrthodox
Age45
Date of birthOct 08, 1981
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record11-7
UFC recordUFC 4-6 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2011-06-04 · last fight 2016-07-30
Finish split4 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Francisco Rivera has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Francisco Rivera in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Bantamweight112 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 30 December 2013#6–10 · from the table of 7 January 2014#11–15 · from the table of 27 January 2014#6–10 · from the table of 17 March 2014#11–15 · from the table of 21 April 2014#6–10 · from the table of 12 May 2014#11–15 · from the table of 26 May 2014#6–10 · from the table of 16 June 2014#11–15 · from the table of 8 July 2014#11–15 · from the table of 25 May 2015#6–10 · from the table of 8 June 2015#11–15 · from the table of 13 July 2015#6–10 · from the table of 20 July 2015#11–15 · from the table of 27 July 2015First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the table
Peak#10Bantamweight · Jan 2014
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Feb 2016

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 6 October 2026

A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.

Career rates facts

Career averages over Francisco Rivera’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 / min4.07
Striking accuracy41%
Strikes absorbed / min3.16
Striking defence68%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.01
Takedown accuracy63%
Takedown defence68%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.60

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Bantamweight 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 Bantamweight.
Striking62
Defence78
Grappling / TD56
Cardio11
Chin54
Fight IQ52

Strike zones

Strike zones

Francisco Rivera

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

HEAD71.0%ACC 35%BODY11.2%ACC 70%LEGS17.8%ACC 84%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 71.0% upstairs — +9.4 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
71.0% acc 35%+9.4 vs field
BODY
11.2% acc 70%−10.7 vs field
LEGS
17.8% acc 84%+1.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 84%CLINCH 11%GROUND 6%

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.

11 UFC fights · 421 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Francisco Rivera

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

1.01takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.01 landed per 15 minutes — −1.09 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS33
1.01 / 15m−1.09 vs field
ATTEMPTS12
1.60 / 15m−4.01 vs field
ACCURACY89
63%+22pp vs field
SUB ATT46
0.60 / 15m−0.48 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.50 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 Bantamweight

Recent form

Pro record: 11-7. In the UFC: 4-6-1. Francisco Rivera’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.

Post-fight bonuses

1 post-fight bonus since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2015-09-05FOTNFight of the NightJohn LinekerUFC 191: Johnson vs Dodson 2

The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.

Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 245 of 1,339 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.

Full UFC career — 11 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2016-07-30LErik PerezDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley
2016-02-27LBrad PickettDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Silva vs Bisping
2015-09-05LJohn LinekerSubmissionR1UFC 191: Johnson vs Dodson 2
2015-06-06WAlex CaceresKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Boetsch vs Henderson
2014-12-06LUrijah FaberSubmissionR2UFC 181: Hendricks vs Lawler II
2014-05-24LTakeya MizugakiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 173: Barao vs Dillashaw
2013-11-06WGeorge RoopKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Fight for the Troops 3
2013-02-02WEdwin FigueroaKO/TKOR2UFC 156: Aldo vs Edgar
2012-07-21DRoland DelormeOverturnedR1UFC 149: Faber vs Barao
2012-05-15WAlex SotoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FUEL TV: Korean Zombie vs Poirier
2011-06-04LReuben DuranSubmissionR3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs Team dos Santos Finale

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 7 cities Francisco Rivera 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.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 5 bouts, 2011–2015Atlanta, Georgia, USA — 1 bout, 2016Calgary, Alberta, Canada — 1 bout, 2012Fairfax, Virginia, USA — 1 bout, 2012Fort Campbell, Kentucky, USA — 1 bout, 2013London, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2016New Orleans, Louisiana, USA — 1 bout, 2015

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

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