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FightMetric Fun Facts: Volume II
In the first installment of F3 we talked about fighters in The 100 Strike Club; those that have landed at least 100 strikes in a single fight. This installment will deal with takedown defense.Fact: There is only one fighter in modern UFC history to have a perfect 100% takedown defense rate (meaning he was never taken down) with at least 10 attempts against him. Fact: There is only one fighter in modern UFC history to have a not-so-perfect 0% takedown defense rate (meaning he was taken down every time) with at least 10 attempts against him.The perfect score belongs to Corey Hill, whose opponents were 0-for-10 on takedown attempts.The not-so-perfect score belongs to Elvis Sinosic, whose opponents were a perfect 15-for-15 on takedown attempts.
GSP's Five-Rounders
We have a wealth of new material posted today, including the stats for the fight between Georges St. Pierre and Thiago Alves, the Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Alan Belcher fight, and updated career reports for St. Pierre, Alves, Dan Henderson, Michael Bisping, and Frank Mir. Make sure to check out the Mir report to see the utter dominations put in by Brock Lesnar.After watching St. Pierre control Alves for five rounds it's interesting to take a look at how this performance stacks up against his other five-rounder, the fight against Jon Fitch.There are a few things that stick out:1. Alves did a much better job of getting back to his feet. GSP needed 10 takedowns against Alves to control the fight, compared to just five (plus a reversal) against Fitch.2. Fitch did a much better job of keeping GSP in his guard. Against Alves, GSP landed 10 takedowns and passed to half-guard 10 times. 3. This was a much more reserved GSP, focusing more on control than ground striking. St. Pierre landed only 13 big head strikes on the ground against Alves. He landed 43 of those against Fitch.4. GSP took a lot fewer shots, but he landed fewer too. In all, Thiago Alves landed 30 significant strikes, while Fitch landed 38. But at the same time, GSP landed only 60 significant strikes against Alves compared to an astounding 129 significant strikes against Fitch. So he exactly doubled Alves' total, while more than tripling Fitch's total.5. While no doubt a terrific, dominating performance, the fight against Alves doesn't measure up to the performance GSP put in against Fitch. The total Effectiveness Score of 814 he tallied against Fitch is still the single-highest score in our database.
FightMetric Fun Facts: Volume I
Now that we have completed our historical database of every fight in the modern era of the UFC, we'd like to share some of the more interesting and unique data points that we've found. We're going to run a regular blog feature called FightMetric Fun Facts, or F3 for short. We hope you enjoy this unique perspective on the sport of MMA.Fact: Only seven fighters have landed 100 significant strikes (or more) in a modern UFC fight. Two of them did it in five rounds:Georges St. Pierre vs. Jon FitchRich Franklin vs. David LoiseauFour others did it in three rounds:BJ Penn vs. Sean SherkForrest Griffin vs. Hector Ramirez (more than 50 were leg kicks)
Chris Lytle vs. Kevin BurnsMartin Kampmann vs. Thales LeitesBut the current record for most significant strikes landed in a single fight belongs to Tim Sylvia in his fight against Wesley "Cabbage" Correira. Sylvia landed more strikes on Cabbage in under seven minutes than any fighter has in any fight of any length in modern UFC history.
Modern UFC Complete, What Next?
If things have seemed quiet around here the last few months, it's because we have been hard at work behind the scenes. One of the major projects underway was completing part of our data collection project, encompassing every fight in modern UFC history. We are proud to announce that every UFC fight from UFC 28 until today has now been scored and entered into our database. We are working with strategic partners to deploy all of this data to the MMA community. While we're not able to show all the numbers to you right away, over the course of the coming days and weeks, we'll be sharing some interesting facts with you that could only be ascertained using this rich, comprehensive data set.
Our data collection project is ongoing, with no end-point in mind. The modern era of the UFC is clearly the most useful and important data to have, but there is much more data to be collected. What we'd like to know from you is what data you think should be next. Please share your thoughts with us using the poll below.
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