FightMetric completes statistical breakdown of every UFC fight since November 2000
By: Press Release
Washington, D.C. — In anticipation of UFC 100, FightMetric (www.fightmetric.com), the world’s first comprehensive mixed martial arts statistics and analysis provider, announces the completion of the most extensive statistical breakdown of UFC fights in existence.
“We are very proud to announce the completion of our modern UFC database,” said FightMetic creator Rami Genauer. “Every relevant offensive or defensive maneuver to ever take place since UFC 28 has now been documented. As MMA grows and becomes more mainstream, we’re proud to offer statistics on par with the best stats that exist for traditional sports like baseball and football.”
The modern UFC database begins with UFC 28, considered the beginning of the modern era due to its application of the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts still in use today. Since that event, the UFC has contested more than 900 fights comprising nearly 8,000 minutes of fight time. In that time, UFC fighters have landed almost 37,000 strikes and over 2,100 takedowns.
The larger FightMetric database currently stands at over 1,200 fights and 10,000 minutes of fight time.
FightMetric furnishes data that tracks the complete histories for the biggest stars in MMA, including all pre-UFC fights for iconic fighters such as Georges St. Pierre and Anderson Silva, and full career stats for non-UFC standouts such as Fedor Emelianenko and Shinya Aoki. The expanded database will serve as an authoritative source for a deeper analysis of the sport of MMA.
The FightMetric system analyzes MMA bouts across 67 statistical categories, encompassing all strikes, takedowns, submissions, and position changes.
In addition to bout statistics, FightMetric’s database includes a wealth of supplementary information, including complete judges’ scoring, referee assignments, and fighter reach data.
“Our efforts do not end just because we’ve reached this milestone,” Genauer said. “There is never an official end to the FightMetric data collection project.”
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This is awesome! gonna check it out right now.
thats freakin cool!!
I stumbled across this after the gsp and fitch fight it is freakin awesome!!!
according to that site BJ killed GSP in their first fight…i liked that site until i saw that! No way BJ won that
i am baffled by another…76-14 for hughes in first fight again GSP? i know he won, but he wasnt dominated the first round by that much!!
If you look at the 10 point must system GSP won, which means the decision is correct. I’m not syaing it’s the correct system but it was the system used so the jusdges scored it right. Same with Bisping Hamill. griffen rampage should have been a draw along with Griffen Ortiz.
nevermind on the BJ comment..i was looking at round 1..took me a minute to realize how to get the totals
man bj definetly inflicted WAY more damage in the first fight lol the site was right
Check out Diego/Huggie to so how NOT close that fight was.
We officially no longer have an excuse to be quite as subjective about our favorite fighters winning or losing.
EXACTLY! I LOVE this! This is just amazing, and NOW mma judges better get their heads out of their asses because there is factual data avalible to back up our JUDGE BASHING RANTS!!!!!!
This is an amazing compilation of work. Very impressive.
John: I stumbled across this back after the Rampage loss to Forrest. I used it to back up my point that I thought rampage won a close fight. Its probably the best site i’ve found to give stats.
I think this sort of data should (and quite easily) be shown to us (fans watching on the tv) between rounds, BUT SHOULD NOT be used to score fights or be available to the judges.
why shouldn’t the judges have access to it? It would be a way for all of them to get the stats behind what they are watching so they can give a more accurate decision.
There’s the issue of certifying the data. Which one is worse; a one eyed judge or corrupted data?
Man, i’ve been hyping this site for how long here and no one wanted to hear any of it but now that mania says so …. Anyways, big fan of Rami- drastically improved the way i judged fights after reading through their methodology way back when they started.
I love this site and I have for quite some time. This site is an excellent guide for 99% of the fights out there. At the very least it serves as a great guideline on the fights. I know some people are trying to tear it apart, but it is pretty comprehensive reporting and they did a great job.
WTF? Being a huge sports fan I always look at statistics to help me decide who to pick. But I don’t know that I would put much into something like this for MMA. One punch could change everything (see GSP vs Serra) or (Serra vs. Shonie) and like they say “that’s why they play the game” or in this instance that’s why they strap on the gloves (boxing term, but I think you know where I’m going with this.)
Yes, it is a fun site. But people attach their opinions far too much to statistics. They think it makes them sound more informed and therefore more intelligent. In a lot of cases this is true, but most people override their own commonsense in favor of these statistics which in a lot of cases means nothing.
Of course, breaking it down to an individual fighter and seeing what his striking percentage is is useful, but the more generalized stats are just an excuse to appear informed.
For example, and I’m not saying these are useless altogether, but “37,000 strikes and over 2,100 takedowns” doesn’t tell me much at all other than the obvious fact, which we all knew anyway, that in a sport where strikes and takedowns are an inevitable part of the sport, there’s gonna be a large quantity.
Oh okay, so fighters strike a lot do they? Wow! Thanks! Who would have thought!
Read their methodology and criteria and tell me if you disagree with anything. The site does a great job of capturing the core of the data, nothing like the compustrike garbage which is the exact kind of stats that you guys are talking about.
Fun site, Bisping was CRUSHED in the Hamil fight; but it looks to me like according to the stats he got ROBBED in the Rashad Evans fight. I guess that evens out.
Hahah that was the first fight I wanted to look up! F bisping.
That site confirms that the judges, based on the 10 point must system, got the Hamill/Bisping decision correct.
Yea based on the 10 point must system; but even the site says that it points to an inefficiency in the point system rather than failure on Hamil’s part.
I watched the Hammil/bisping fight over 15 times by now..there were a few times I watched that fight 2 or 3 times in a row, and not ONCE did I ever think that Bisping lost that fight, but I admit it was much closer then I thought it would have been.
I also thought that Bisping should have been awarded the nod over Rashad.
Interesting. I respect your opinion, John, but I went the other way around — I thought Bisping won initially and after seeing it I would probably give it to Hamill.
Admittedly, I’ve only watched it two or three times. I might watch it again. I would prefer that Bisping did take it but I tried to watch it from the second time without bias, and as I said, I thought it went to Hamill.
I hope I’m wrong. I like Hamill but no one wants a spurious victory. And I like Bisping so it would feel better knowing despite the controversy he did in fact win without a dodgy decision.
THey currently do NOT have all the fights up. When are they posting every fight??
It looks like only the fights that went to a decision are posted
No. I’m looking for Stout vs. Fisher #1. I don’t see it.
No there are a ton of fights that are posted that did not go to decision. Penn vs. St. Pierre II, St. Pierre vs Hughes II. They are on there you just have to look.
What a job!
MMA has created yet another spin-off business.
I would imagine this will be used extensively by bettors & handicappers.
WOW, Sanchez completely CRUSHED Guida, that has to be the most lop sided statistics for a fight on that site
hah that is the first thing that I looked up on there. More proof that MMA judges are terribad.
I like Anderson Silva vs. James Irvin… 100-0…hahaha.
Cool stats, but the kind of strike thrown or amount of strikes can’t really relay the amount of damage incurred. One punch ko’s do happen.
Hardy Davis fight is pretty interesting to look at.
LOL at the fedor-sylvia fight! seeing it in writing and numbers gives it that extra edge!
Those statistics between TAlves and JKoskeck aren’t fair, Kosheck only had a two week notice, if he would had known with more time to prepare pretty sure he would’ve done lot better.
lol at the comment – maybe someone should change the statistics so they can be fair.
Yeah, they should take a few punches away from Alves for that.
Maybe they should factor alves score, say x 0.2?
That would be fair right?
The stats can only be true or false (i.e., good data or bad data). They can’t be fair. Kosheck did accept the terms for the fight – so maybe he was not wise to fight without adequate prep time.
“according to that site BJ killed GSP in their first fight…i liked that site until i saw that! No way BJ won that”
wtf were you watching? That fight was EXACTLY like Sanchez vs. Guida. GSP’s face was a mess and was outstriked significantly which resulted in his lay n’ pray. BJ was robbed.
Yes, because a bloody nose is devistating and should result in an automatic loss. I think you should rewatch that fight
Josh the judges system was correct on the bjpenn gsp fight. The first round was a 10-9 bj which he landed some good strikes after a eye poke but wasnt pure domination. If u see blood on a guys face u cant give it a 10-8. Second round bj gassed and did nothing to win the round and gsp got takedowns which won the round. Third round was also the same bj landed no strikes and got taking down and received a nice head kick. gsp won round 2 and 3 10-9. That fight was nothing like sanchez guida.