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Ben Askren
“Funky”
United StatesWelterweightActiveage 42
19-2
90% win rate
L2 streak
Peak Vertex
2019-10-26 → 2019-10-262held 6 bouts
Bouts at peak
- Lvs · Sub · 2019-10-26
Retired at career peak
Career timeline
Each dot is a fight — green wins, red losses, larger dots are title fights. Hover for details, click to open the bout.
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- Draw / No contest
- Title
1 win2 losseslast 5: L L Wdrag to scroll · 1993–2019
Key stats
Six attributes derived from striking, grappling, and finishing rates.
Fighters with sparse method data (older bouts) will read lower on Power and Cardio.
Physical
Career overview
Striking heatmap
Significant strikes by target zone, aggregated across all UFC rounds.
Round-by-round averages
Average values per round across the selected fights — toggle metrics below.
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Metrics
| Metric | R1(3) | R2(1) | R3(1) | R4 | R5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sig Str landed | 9.0 | 22.0 | 17.9 | — | — |
| Sig Str absorbed | 82.3 | 23.0 | 23.1 | — | — |
| Takedowns landed | 0.83 | 1.00 | 2.56 | — | — |
| Takedowns absorbed | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | — |
| Control time | 1:15 | 0:35 | 0:42 | — | — |
Fight history
Career UFC bouts in reverse chronological order.
In the news
Recent MMA headlines that mention this fighter.
- MMA Fighting
Ben Askren has publicly criticized fellow retired MMA champion Henry Cejudo's conditioning following their respective losses in RAF (Submission Underground's wrestling-focused combat sport)…
- Sherdog
Ben Askren's competitive combat sports career came to an end after his body simply could not sustain the effort required in a wrestling match against Belal Muhammad.
- MMA Fighting
Similar fighters
Closest stylistic matches by inverse-Euclidean similarity over striking and grappling rates.
