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Hermes Franca

UFC 6-5Pro 24-17tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Hermes Franca’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

UFC recordUFC 6-5 first fight 2003-04-25 · last fight 2009-09-19
Pro record24-17
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L L W
DivisionLightweight
Age52
Height5' 6"
StanceOrthodox

5' 6" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 6 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 2 decision. Top 10% of Lightweights: averages 2.4 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 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)Fortaleza, Ceara
CampVictory MMA
Height5' 6"
Reach71"
StanceOrthodox
Age52
Date of birthAug 26, 1974
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record24-17
UFC recordUFC 6-5 first fight 2003-04-25 · last fight 2009-09-19
Finish split6 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Hermes Franca’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 / min1.78
Striking accuracy39%
Strikes absorbed / min2.85
Striking defence55%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.53
Takedown accuracy36%
Takedown defence37%
Sub attempts / 15 min2.40

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight 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 Lightweight.
Striking32
Defence62
Grappling / TD60
Cardio6
Chin69
Fight IQ46

Strike zones

Strike zones

Hermes Franca

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

HEAD67.0%ACC 32%BODY10.1%ACC 76%LEGS22.9%ACC 73%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 22.9% to the legs — +5.8 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
67.0% acc 32%+4.9 vs field
BODY
10.1% acc 76%−10.7 vs field
LEGS
22.9% acc 73%+5.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 72%CLINCH 17%GROUND 11%

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 · 258 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Hermes Franca

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

1.53takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 2.40 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +1.09 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS44
1.53 / 15m−0.69 vs field
ATTEMPTS46
4.25 / 15m−1.30 vs field
ACCURACY47
36%−7pp vs field
SUB ATT90
2.40 / 15m+1.09 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.19 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 Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 24-17. In the UFC: 6-5. Hermes Franca’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

4 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 3 Fight of the Night, 1 Submission of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2008-07-19FOTNFight of the NightFrankie EdgarUFC: Silva vs Irvin
2007-01-25FOTNFight of the NightSpencer FisherUFC Fight Night: Evans vs Salmon
2006-08-26FOTNFight of the NightJamie VarnerUFC 62: Liddell vs Sobral
2006-07-08SOTNSubmission of the NightJoe JordanUFC 61: Bitter Rivals

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
2009-09-19LTyson GriffinKO/TKOR2UFC 103: Franklin vs Belfort
2008-10-25WMarcus AurelioDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 90: Silva vs Cote
2008-07-19LFrankie EdgarDecision (unanimous)R3UFC: Silva vs Irvin
2007-07-07LSean SherkDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 73: Stacked
2007-01-25WSpencer FisherKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Evans vs Salmon
2006-08-26WJamie VarnerSubmissionR3UFC 62: Liddell vs Sobral
2006-07-08WJoe JordanSubmissionR3UFC 61: Bitter Rivals
2004-04-02LYves EdwardsDecision (split)R3UFC 47: It's On!
2004-01-31LJosh ThomsonDecision (majority)R3UFC 46: Supernatural
2003-09-26WCaol UnoKO/TKOR2UFC 44: Undisputed
2003-04-25WRichard CrunkiltonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 42: Sudden Impact

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 6 cities Hermes Franca 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 — 6 bouts, 2003–2008Dallas, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2009Hollywood, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2007Miami, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2003Rosemont, Illinois, USA — 1 bout, 2008Sacramento, California, USA — 1 bout, 2007Camp: Victory MMAHometown: Fortaleza, Ceara

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

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