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Mike Rio

UFC 1-3Pro 10-5tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 1-3 first fight 2012-12-15 · last fight 2014-01-25
Pro record10-5
Current streak3 losses
Last 4 (UFC)L L L W
DivisionLightweight
Age45
Height5' 10"
StanceOrthodox

5' 10" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 1 UFC win — 1 submission.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Wolverine
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Miami, Florida
CampZen Jiu-Jitsu
Height5' 10"
Reach70"
StanceOrthodox
Age45
Date of birthJul 06, 1981
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record10-5
UFC recordUFC 1-3 first fight 2012-12-15 · last fight 2014-01-25
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 submission
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Mike Rio’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 / min1.68
Striking accuracy39%
Strikes absorbed / min2.99
Striking defence53%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.58
Takedown accuracy27%
Takedown defence0%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.00

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.
Striking30
Defence56
Grappling / TD53
Cardio limited sample38
Chin20
Fight IQ39

Strike zones

Strike zones

Mike Rio

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

HEAD53.1%ACC 28%BODY22.4%FIELD 21%LEGS24.5%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 24.5% to the legs — +7.4 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
53.1% acc 28%−9.0 vs field
BODY
22.4%+1.6 vs field
LEGS
24.5%+7.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 59%CLINCH 39%GROUND 2%

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.

4 UFC fights · 49 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Mike Rio

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

2.58takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.58 landed per 15 minutes — +0.36 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS74
2.58 / 15m+0.36 vs field
ATTEMPTS87
9.56 / 15m+4.00 vs field
ACCURACY22
27%−16pp vs field
SUB ATT63
1.00 / 15m−0.31 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: 10-5. In the UFC: 1-3. Mike Rio’s last 4 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 — 4 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2014-01-25LDaron CruickshankKO/TKOR2UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Thomson
2013-10-19LTony FergusonSubmissionR1UFC 166: Velasquez vs Dos Santos 3
2013-05-18LFrancisco TrinaldoSubmissionR1UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold
2012-12-15WJohn CoferSubmissionR3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson 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 4 cities Mike Rio 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.

Chicago, Illinois, USA — 1 bout, 2014Houston, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2013Jaragua do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil — 1 bout, 2013Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2012Hometown: Miami, Florida

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

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