Built from Ricardo Almeida’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler
6' 0" orthodox submission grappler campaigning at Welterweight. 6 UFC wins — 3 submission, 3 decision. Top 6% of Welterweights: absorbs only 1.2 significant strikes a minute and averages 3.74 takedowns per 15 minutes.
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.
| Nickname | Big Dog |
| Nationality | United States |
| Hometown (per Sherdog) | Bordentown, New Jersey |
| Camp | Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu |
| Height | 6' 0" |
| Reach | 74" |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Age | 49 |
| Date of birth | Nov 29, 1976 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 13-5 |
| UFC record | UFC 6-5 first fight 2001-05-04 · last fight 2011-03-19 |
| Finish split | 6 UFC wins — 3 submission, 3 decision |
| Social |
Career averages over Ricardo Almeida’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.
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.27 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.
Pro record: 13-5. In the UFC: 6-5. Ricardo Almeida’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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-03-19 | L | Mike Pyle | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 128: Shogun vs Jones |
| 2010-12-11 | W | TJ Grant | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 124: St-Pierre vs Koscheck 2 |
| 2010-08-07 | L | Matt Hughes | Submission | R1 | UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen |
| 2010-03-27 | W | Matt Brown | Submission | R2 | UFC 111: St-Pierre vs Hardy |
| 2009-08-08 | W | Kendall Grove | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 101: Declaration |
| 2009-04-01 | W | Matt Horwich | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann |
| 2008-07-05 | L | Patrick Cote | Decision (split) | R3 | UFC 86: Jackson vs Griffin |
| 2008-02-02 | W | Rob Yundt | Submission | R1 | UFC 81: Breaking Point |
| 2002-01-11 | L | Andrei Semenov | KO/TKO | R2 | UFC 35: Throwdown |
| 2001-09-28 | W | Eugene Jackson | Submission | R1 | UFC 33: Victory in Vegas |
| 2001-05-04 | L | Matt Lindland | DQ | R3 | UFC 31: Locked and Loaded |
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.
The 8 cities Ricardo Almeida 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.
Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.