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Keith Rockel

UFC 1-1Pro 12-4-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Keith Rockel’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Wrestler

UFC recordUFC 1-1 first fight 2002-01-11 · last fight 2003-11-21
Pro record12-4-1
Current streak1 win
Last 2 (UFC)W L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age61
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox wrestler campaigning at Middleweight. 1 UFC win — 1 submission. Best of Middleweights: stuffs 100% of the takedowns tried on him and absorbs only 0.21 significant strikes a minute.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameRock
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Amherst, Massachusetts
CampTeam Elite
Height6' 0"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age61
Date of birthAug 28, 1965
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record12-4-1
UFC recordUFC 1-1 first fight 2002-01-11 · last fight 2003-11-21
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 submission

Career rates facts

Career averages over Keith Rockel’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 / min1.13
Striking accuracy73%
Strikes absorbed / min0.21
Striking defence66%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min4.63
Takedown accuracy75%
Takedown defence100%
Sub attempts / 15 min4.60

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking56
Defence98
Grappling / TD91
Cardio Round-2 tape only limited sample53
Chin limited sample70
Fight IQ74

Strike zones

Strike zones

Keith Rockel

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

HEAD81.8%FIELD 64%BODY9.1%FIELD 20%LEGS9.1%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Ground striker 82% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
81.8%+18.3 vs field
BODY
9.1%−11.4 vs field
LEGS
9.1%−6.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 18%CLINCH 0%GROUND 82%

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 sample2 UFC fights · 11 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Keith Rockel

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

4.63takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 4.63 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +2.35 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS91
4.63 / 15m+2.35 vs field
ATTEMPTS70
6.17 / 15m+0.84 vs field
ACCURACY87
75%+28pp vs field
SUB ATT95
4.60 / 15m+3.05 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 12-4-1. In the UFC: 1-1. Keith Rockel’s last 2 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 — 2 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2003-11-21WChris LiguoriSubmissionR1UFC 45: Revolution
2002-01-11LEugene JacksonSubmissionR2UFC 35: Throwdown

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 1 city Keith Rockel has fought a UFC bout in 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.

Uncasville, Connecticut, USA — 2 bouts, 2002–2003Hometown: Amherst, Massachusetts

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

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