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Ricardo Lamas

UFC 11-6Pro 20-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 11-6 first fight 2011-06-26 · last fight 2020-08-29
Pro record20-8
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L W L L
DivisionFeatherweight
Age44
Height5' 8"
StanceOrthodox

5' 8" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Featherweight. 11 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 4 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 Bully
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Chicago, Illinois
Camppending
Height5' 8"
Reach71"
StanceOrthodox
Age44
Date of birthMay 21, 1982
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record20-8
UFC recordUFC 11-6 first fight 2011-06-26 · last fight 2020-08-29
Finish split11 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 4 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Ricardo Lamas has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Ricardo Lamas in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Featherweight319 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 2017#6–10 · from the table of 18 December 2017No table on record · Apr 2018 – May 2018#6–10 · from the table of 16 May 2018#11–15 · from the table of 13 June 2018No table on record · Aug 2018 – Aug 2018#11–15 · from the table of 29 August 2018No table on record · Oct 2018 – Oct 2018#11–15 · from the table of 31 October 2018#6–10 · from the table of 4 February 2019#11–15 · from the table of 5 March 2019#6–10 · from the table of 6 May 2019#11–15 · from the table of 11 June 2019First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#2Featherweight · Feb 2013
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–5244on the published tables, title reigns aside
CurrentUnrankedsince Jul 2019

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 Ricardo Lamas’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 / min3.13
Striking accuracy47%
Strikes absorbed / min2.87
Striking defence57%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.84
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence46%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.90

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Featherweight 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 Featherweight.
Striking60
Defence64
Grappling / TD47
Cardio43
Chin36
Fight IQ50

Strike zones

Strike zones

Ricardo Lamas

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

HEAD49.2%ACC 37%BODY20.8%ACC 81%LEGS30.0%ACC 72%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 30.0% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +13.3 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
49.2% acc 37%−13.9 vs field
BODY
20.8% acc 81%+0.6 vs field
LEGS
30.0% acc 72%+13.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 65%CLINCH 18%GROUND 16%

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.

17 UFC fights · 600 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Ricardo Lamas

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

1.84takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.84 landed per 15 minutes — −0.74 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS48
1.84 / 15m−0.74 vs field
ATTEMPTS56
5.58 / 15m−0.53 vs field
ACCURACY39
33%−10pp vs field
SUB ATT54
0.90 / 15m−0.37 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.09 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 Featherweight

Recent form

Pro record: 20-8. In the UFC: 11-6. Ricardo Lamas’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

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

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2020-08-29FOTNFight of the NightBill AlgeoUFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakic
2011-11-12SOTNSubmission of the NightCub SwansonUFC on FOX: Velasquez vs Dos Santos

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 — 17 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2020-08-29WBill AlgeoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakic
2019-06-08LCalvin KattarKO/TKOR1UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes
2018-11-17WDarren ElkinsKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Ponzinibbio
2018-06-09LMirsad BekticDecision (split)R3UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2
2017-12-16LJosh EmmettKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Lawler vs. Dos Anjos
2017-07-29WJason KnightKO/TKOR1UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones 2
2016-11-05WCharles OliveiraSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Ferguson
2016-06-04LMax HollowayDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping 2
2015-11-21WDiego SanchezDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Magny vs Gastelum
2015-04-04LChad MendesKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Mendes vs Lamas
2014-11-15WDennis BermudezSubmissionR1UFC 180: Werdum vs Hunt
2014-06-28WHacran DiasDecision (unanimous)R3—
2014-02-01LJose AldoDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 169: Barao vs Faber 2
2013-01-26WErik KochKO/TKOR2UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Dodson
2012-06-22WHatsu HiokiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FX: Maynard vs Guida
2011-11-12WCub SwansonSubmissionR2UFC on FOX: Velasquez vs Dos Santos
2011-06-26WMatt GriceKO/TKOR1UFC Live: Kongo vs Barry

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 12 cities Ricardo Lamas 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 — 3 bouts, 2013–2019Anaheim, California, USA — 2 bouts, 2011–2017Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico — 2 bouts, 2014–2016Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2012Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina — 1 bout, 2018Fairfax, Virginia, USA — 1 bout, 2015Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2020Los Angeles, California, USA — 1 bout, 2016Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico — 1 bout, 2015Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2014Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA — 1 bout, 2011Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada — 1 bout, 2017Hometown: Chicago, Illinois

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

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