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Rich Franklin

29-7-0 (1 NC)
51y·6' 1"·76" reach·Southpaw
2:47
Control / 15m
time on top
+2.03
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
81%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
1.2
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 20 recorded bouts, 856 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 65%Body 23%Legs 12%
Position
Distance 70%Clinch 18%Ground 13%
And how often each lands
Head35%
Body78%
Legs91%
Distance38%
Clinch67%
Ground64%

How fights end

UFC bouts only, so these will not add up to the record above. Counts rather than rates: two knockouts in three wins is not a 67% finisher.

21Wins12 KO · 5 SUB · 4 DEC
7Losses5 KO · 2 DEC

Control, bout by bout

Seconds spent controlling the opponent in each fight, oldest on the left. UFCStats records this per bout and never adds it up; this is what that looks like added up.

1%
Tanner
55%
DeWees
66%
Rivera
10%
Shamrock
7%
Tanner
6%
Quarry
35%
Loiseau
0%
Silva
49%
MacDonald
20%
Okami
25%
Silva
26%
Lutter
1%
Hamill
10%
Henderson
9%
Silva
0%
Belfort
2%
Liddell
2%
Griffin
3%
Silva
0%
Le

As the fight goes on

Which measure to show

Significant strikes landed, per minute fought. Every round is measured against round one, except rounds reached by fewer than 3 bouts, which are dimmed and left uncompared.

Landed / minvs R1Bouts
R14.19100%20
R24.47107%12
R33.8492%9
R45.22125%3
R53.502

Only fights that reached a round count towards it, so later rounds are a smaller sample.

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min4.1
Strikes absorbed / min2.07
Striking accuracyof everything thrown44%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed62%
Takedowns / 15 min1.31
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land66%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed63%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.7
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together6.17
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 20 bouts10.1m

Earned Accuracy

How hard the opponents on this record were to hit at distance, and whether they beat it. Distance strikes only, so nobody gets credit for accuracy they picked up hammering someone already flat on the floor.

39.3%
Landed at range
1,092 thrown over 17 bouts
33.7%
Expected
against these opponents
+5.6pp
Gap
above expected
68.4%
Coverage
from real records
The fine print

Distance strikes only

Nothing thrown in the clinch or on the ground counts. Those land at about 72% and 71%, against 44% at distance, so a blended accuracy mostly measures where a fight happened. Rank the sport that way and its best strikers are all wrestlers.

One pass, not a rating

How much each opponent lets through is taken raw. It isn't adjusted for who they fought, so a fighter whose opponents all had soft schedules comes out looking better here than they are. Running it to convergence is a later job.

Coverage, and who gets ranked

Coverage is how much of the expected number came from the opponents' own records instead of the division average. Under 65% it's mostly the division talking, so the comparison gets hidden. Same for anyone under 5 qualifying bouts, or under 300 distance strikes of their own, which is where an accuracy still moves on a single exchange. Miss any of the three and you'll see what they landed, nothing else, and they stay out of any ranking.

Short records get pulled to the middle

An opponent who hasn't been shot at much gets dragged toward their division's average, and the drag fades as their record fills in. At 60 distance strikes faced, their own record and the division average count for the same.

Bout log

LCung LeNov 2012KO R10:00 ctrl12 str0 td
Significant strikes
12 of 21 · 57%
Total strikes
12 of 21 · 57%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:17
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 50%Body 0%Legs 50%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WWanderlei SilvaJun 2012U-DEC0:48 ctrl122 str1 td
Significant strikes
122 of 336 · 36%
Total strikes
126 of 342 · 37%
Takedowns
1 of 2 · 50%
Control
0:48
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 5 rounds
Target
Head 80%Body 18%Legs 2%
Position
Distance 97%Clinch 0%Ground 3%
This fight on UFCStats
LForrest GriffinFeb 2011U-DEC0:21 ctrl33 str1 td
Significant strikes
33 of 104 · 32%
Total strikes
40 of 112 · 36%
Takedowns
1 of 2 · 50%
Control
0:21
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 64%Body 30%Legs 6%
Position
Distance 91%Clinch 9%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WChuck LiddellJun 2010KO R10:05 ctrl24 str0 td
Significant strikes
24 of 52 · 46%
Total strikes
27 of 55 · 49%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:05
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:55
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 58%Body 17%Legs 25%
Position
Distance 83%Clinch 8%Ground 8%
This fight on UFCStats
LVitor BelfortSep 2009KO R10:00 ctrl4 str0 td
Significant strikes
4 of 19 · 21%
Total strikes
4 of 19 · 21%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 3:02
Punch to Head On Ground
Target
Head 0%Body 50%Legs 50%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WWanderlei SilvaJun 2009U-DEC1:18 ctrl52 str1 td
Significant strikes
52 of 150 · 35%
Total strikes
67 of 167 · 40%
Takedowns
1 of 2 · 50%
Control
1:18
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 62%Body 25%Legs 13%
Position
Distance 87%Clinch 8%Ground 6%
This fight on UFCStats
LDan HendersonJan 2009S-DEC1:33 ctrl39 str0 td
Significant strikes
39 of 96 · 41%
Total strikes
47 of 106 · 44%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:33
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 36%Body 56%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 79%Clinch 21%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WMatt HamillSep 2008KO R30:04 ctrl71 str0 td
Significant strikes
71 of 136 · 52%
Total strikes
71 of 136 · 52%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:04
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 0:39
Kick to Body At Distance
Target
Head 51%Body 14%Legs 35%
Position
Distance 90%Clinch 6%Ground 4%
This fight on UFCStats
WTravis LutterApr 2008KO R22:05 ctrl28 str0 td
Significant strikes
28 of 43 · 65%
Total strikes
56 of 75 · 75%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
2:05
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 3:01
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 64%Body 32%Legs 4%
Position
Distance 50%Clinch 36%Ground 14%
This fight on UFCStats
LAnderson SilvaOct 2007KO R21:31 ctrl22 str1 td
Significant strikes
22 of 56 · 39%
Total strikes
23 of 58 · 40%
Takedowns
1 of 2 · 50%
Control
1:31
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 1:07
Knees to Head In Clinch
Target
Head 36%Body 32%Legs 32%
Position
Distance 77%Clinch 23%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WYushin OkamiJun 2007U-DEC2:58 ctrl36 str1 td
Significant strikes
36 of 102 · 35%
Total strikes
42 of 110 · 38%
Takedowns
1 of 3 · 33%
Control
2:58
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 36%Body 28%Legs 36%
Position
Distance 78%Clinch 19%Ground 3%
This fight on UFCStats
WJason MacDonaldMar 2007KO R24:56 ctrl49 str1 td
Significant strikes
49 of 89 · 55%
Total strikes
63 of 103 · 61%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
4:56
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 5:00
to Corner Stoppage
Target
Head 90%Body 6%Legs 4%
Position
Distance 20%Clinch 18%Ground 61%
This fight on UFCStats
LAnderson SilvaOct 2006KO R10:00 ctrl10 str0 td
Significant strikes
10 of 23 · 43%
Total strikes
13 of 26 · 50%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:59
Knees to Head In Clinch
Target
Head 40%Body 10%Legs 50%
Position
Distance 80%Clinch 20%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WDavid LoiseauMar 2006U-DEC8:39 ctrl127 str5 td
Significant strikes
127 of 244 · 52%
Total strikes
211 of 339 · 62%
Takedowns
5 of 6 · 83%
Control
8:39
Knockdowns
2
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 5 rounds
Target
Head 65%Body 33%Legs 2%
Position
Distance 58%Clinch 25%Ground 17%
This fight on UFCStats
WNate QuarryNov 2005KO R10:10 ctrl13 str0 td
Significant strikes
13 of 34 · 38%
Total strikes
15 of 36 · 42%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:10
Knockdowns
2
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:34
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 77%Body 15%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 62%Clinch 23%Ground 15%
This fight on UFCStats
WEvan TannerJun 2005DOC R41:15 ctrl97 str0 td
Significant strikes
97 of 272 · 36%
Total strikes
104 of 279 · 37%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:15
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
1
Ended
Doctor's stoppage, R4 3:25
Facial Cuts
Target
Head 81%Body 11%Legs 7%
Position
Distance 85%Clinch 15%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WKen ShamrockApr 2005KO R10:17 ctrl23 str0 td
Significant strikes
23 of 36 · 64%
Total strikes
25 of 38 · 66%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:17
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:42
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 87%Body 13%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 26%Clinch 0%Ground 74%
This fight on UFCStats
WJorge RiveraOct 2004SUB R39:37 ctrl41 str3 td
Significant strikes
41 of 73 · 56%
Total strikes
84 of 116 · 72%
Takedowns
3 of 3 · 100%
Control
9:37
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R3 4:28
Armbar From Mount
Target
Head 66%Body 27%Legs 7%
Position
Distance 15%Clinch 63%Ground 22%
This fight on UFCStats
WEdwin DeWeesSep 2003KO R11:59 ctrl37 str0 td
Significant strikes
37 of 46 · 80%
Total strikes
44 of 53 · 83%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:59
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 3:35
Knees to Body On Ground
Target
Head 57%Body 41%Legs 3%
Position
Distance 8%Clinch 57%Ground 35%
This fight on UFCStats
WEvan TannerApr 2003KO R10:02 ctrl16 str0 td
Significant strikes
16 of 38 · 42%
Total strikes
16 of 38 · 42%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:02
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:40
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 81%Body 6%Legs 13%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

Numbers from UFCStats. Control time and strike placement are summed from each bout, everything else is as published.