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Frankie Edgar

UFC 18-11 (1 draw/NC)Pro 23-11-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Frankie Edgar’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

UFC recordUFC 18-11 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2007-02-03 · last fight 2022-11-12
Pro record23-11-1
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W L
DivisionBantamweight
Age44
Height5' 6"
StanceOrthodox

5' 6" orthodox decision fighter campaigning at Bantamweight. 18 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 11 decision. Top 9% of Bantamweights: avoids 65% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameThe Answer
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Toms River, New Jersey
CampRicardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu
Height5' 6"
Reach68"
StanceOrthodox
Age44
Date of birthOct 16, 1981
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record23-11-1
UFC recordUFC 18-11 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2007-02-03 · last fight 2022-11-12
Finish split18 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 11 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Frankie Edgar has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, 3 of them, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Frankie Edgar in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Featherweight365 weeks on the tables#1–5 · from the table of 4 February 2013No table on record · May 2013 – May 2013#1–5 · from the table of 21 May 2013No table on record · Mar 2016 – Apr 2016#1–5 · from the table of 12 April 2016No table on record · Oct 2016 – Nov 2016#1–5 · from the table of 7 November 2016No table on record · Aug 2017 – Sep 2017#1–5 · from the table of 4 September 2017No table on record · Apr 2018 – May 2018#1–5 · from the table of 16 May 2018No table on record · Aug 2018 – Aug 2018#1–5 · from the table of 29 August 2018No table on record · Oct 2018 – Oct 2018#1–5 · from the table of 31 October 2018No table on record · Nov 2019 – Dec 2019#1–5 · from the table of 10 December 2019#6–10 · from the table of 24 December 2019No table on record · Dec 2019 – Jan 2020#6–10 · from the table of 20 January 2020No table on record · Mar 2020 – May 2020#6–10 · from the table of 11 May 2020First rankedPeak #1Last rankedBantamweight110 weeks on the tables#1–5 · from the table of 24 August 2020No table on record · Dec 2020 – Jan 2021#1–5 · from the table of 18 January 2021#6–10 · from the table of 8 February 2021#11–15 · from the table of 8 November 2021No table on record · Dec 2021 – Jan 2022#11–15 · from the table of 17 January 2022First rankedLast rankedPound-for-pound83 weeks on the tables#6–10 · from the table of 4 February 2013#6–10 · from the table of 25 February 2013No table on record · May 2013 – May 2013#6–10 · from the table of 21 May 2013#11–15 · from the table of 18 May 2015#11–15 · from the table of 8 February 2016No table on record · Mar 2016 – Apr 2016#11–15 · from the table of 12 April 2016#6–10 · from the table of 6 June 2016#11–15 · from the table of 11 July 2016#11–15 · from the table of 9 August 2016#11–15 · from the table of 17 May 2017First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#1Featherweight · Feb 2015
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–5361on the published tables, title reigns aside
CurrentUnrankedsince Nov 2022

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 Frankie Edgar’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 / min3.77
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min2.82
Striking defence65%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.29
Takedown accuracy31%
Takedown defence65%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.30

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.
Striking56
Defence80
Grappling / TD41
Cardio66
Chin37
Fight IQ56

Strike zones

Strike zones

Frankie Edgar

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

HEAD66.4%ACC 33%BODY19.1%ACC 60%LEGS14.5%ACC 76%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 66% head / 19% body / 14% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
66.4% acc 33%+4.8 vs field
BODY
19.1% acc 60%−2.8 vs field
LEGS
14.5% acc 76%−2.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 70%CLINCH 7%GROUND 23%

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.

30 UFC fights · 1,801 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Frankie Edgar

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

2.29takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.29 landed per 15 minutes — +0.19 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS65
2.29 / 15m+0.19 vs field
ATTEMPTS75
7.39 / 15m+1.77 vs field
ACCURACY33
31%−10pp vs field
SUB ATT26
0.30 / 15m−0.78 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: 23-11-1. In the UFC: 18-11-1. Frankie Edgar’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

10 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 8 Fight of the Night, 1 Performance of the Night, 1 Knockout of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2020-08-22FOTNFight of the NightPedro MunhozUFC Fight Night: Munhoz vs. Edgar
2014-11-22POTNPerformance of the NightCub SwansonUFC Fight Night: Edgar vs Swanson
2013-07-06FOTNFight of the NightCharles OliveiraUFC 162: Silva vs Weidman
2013-02-02FOTNFight of the NightJose AldoUFC 156: Aldo vs Edgar
2012-02-25FOTNFight of the NightBenson HendersonUFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson
2011-10-08KOTNKnockout of the NightGray MaynardUFC 136: Edgar vs Maynard 3
2011-01-01FOTNFight of the NightGray MaynardUFC 125: Resolution
2009-12-05FOTNFight of the NightMatt VeachThe Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights Finale
2008-07-19FOTNFight of the NightHermes FrancaUFC: Silva vs Irvin
2007-02-03FOTNFight of the NightTyson GriffinUFC 67: All or Nothing

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 — 30 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2022-11-12LChris GutierrezKO/TKOR1UFC 281: Adesanya vs. Pereira
2021-11-06LMarlon VeraKO/TKOR3UFC 268: Usman vs. Covington 2
2021-02-06LCory SandhagenKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov
2020-08-22WPedro MunhozDecision (split)R5UFC Fight Night: Munhoz vs. Edgar
2019-12-21LChan Sung JungKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. The Korean Zombie
2019-07-27LMax HollowayDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 240: Holloway vs. Edgar
2018-04-21WCub SwansonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee
2018-03-03LBrian OrtegaKO/TKOR1UFC 222: Cyborg vs. Kunitskaya
2017-05-13WYair RodriguezTKO (doctor)R2UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos
2016-11-12WJeremy StephensDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor
2016-07-09LJose AldoDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 200: Tate vs Nunes
2015-12-11WChad MendesKO/TKOR1The Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber Finale
2015-05-16WUrijah FaberDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs Faber
2014-11-22WCub SwansonSubmissionR5UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs Swanson
2014-07-06WBJ PennKO/TKOR3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Edgar vs. Team Penn Finale
2013-07-06WCharles OliveiraDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 162: Silva vs Weidman
2013-02-02LJose AldoDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 156: Aldo vs Edgar
2012-08-11LBenson HendersonDecision (split)R5UFC 150: Henderson vs Edgar II
2012-02-25LBenson HendersonDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson
2011-10-08WGray MaynardKO/TKOR4UFC 136: Edgar vs Maynard 3
2011-01-01DGray MaynardDecision (split)R5UFC 125: Resolution
2010-08-28WBJ PennDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2
2010-04-10WBJ PennDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 112: Invincible
2009-12-05WMatt VeachSubmissionR2The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights Finale
2009-05-23WSean SherkDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 98: Evans vs Machida
2008-07-19WHermes FrancaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC: Silva vs Irvin
2008-04-02LGray MaynardDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Florian vs Lauzon
2007-11-17WSpencer FisherDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 78: Validation
2007-07-07WMark BocekKO/TKOR1UFC 73: Stacked
2007-02-03WTyson GriffinDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 67: All or Nothing

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 16 cities Frankie Edgar 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.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 13 bouts, 2007–2021New York City, New York, USA — 3 bouts, 2016–2022Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 1 bout, 2010Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2018Austin, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2014Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 1 bout, 2010Broomfield, Colorado, USA — 1 bout, 2008Busan, South Korea — 1 bout, 2019Dallas, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2017Denver, Colorado, USA — 1 bout, 2012Edmonton, Alberta, Canada — 1 bout, 2019Houston, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2011Manila, Philippines — 1 bout, 2015Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2007Sacramento, California, USA — 1 bout, 2007Saitama, Japan — 1 bout, 2012Camp: Ricardo Almeida Jiu-JitsuHometown: Toms River, New Jersey

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

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