Posted on April 29, 2013 by jcs

Now visible in the fighter ranking “hover overs”, is our initial iteration of a statistic we call combat age. For years, fans have subjectively argued about which fighters were battle-worn and have attempted to link this to the foreshadowing of the end of a fighter’s prime.  With combat age, we are looking to add our [...]

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Posted on April 17, 2013 by oleg

Expanding on our “Fight Outcomes By Year” feature, we compiled the statistics for Bellator MMA: http://www.fightmatrix.com/mma-records-stats/bellator-fight-outcomes-by-year/ Of course the all MMA fight outcomes by year and UFC fight outcomes by year stats are still available. We’ll be adding breakdowns for more organizations and by weight class in the future.

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Posted on April 12, 2013 by oleg

A couple of years ago, we published a compilation of all UFC fight outcomes by year, from 1993 to 2010. By popular request, we decided to make this a permanent feature. We created a page for UFC statistics, and another one for all MMA fights in our database. There are also some statistics on fight [...]

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Posted on April 11, 2013 by jcs

Bantamweight (135) [#4] Urijah Faber (27-6-0, -458) vs. [#27] Scott Jorgensen (14-6-0, +354) Urijah Faber is the All-Time #11 ranked Bantamweight and #10 ranked Absolute fighter. Scott Jorgensen is the All-Time #18 ranked Bantamweight fighter. Last 3 Fights: Urijah Faber (2-1-0) 2013-02-23: W vs. [#59BW] Ivan Menjivar (25-10-0) via Submission (Rear Naked Choke) in 4:34 [...]

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Posted on April 3, 2013 by jcs

This is not an attempt to suggest the rating system is more accurate than gambling odds.  Gamblers can analyze each fight individually, while the rating system uses a variety of mathematical routines to supply a primary fighter rating that is focused on ranking recent achievement, with a secondary priority of gauging future expectation. With that [...]

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Posted on March 13, 2013 by oleg

We compiled a list of some of the most unusual and controversial decisions in the history of mixed martial arts. This includes most controversial split decisions (with the biggest difference in scores among the judges) and the most lopsided unanimous decisions (with the biggest difference in scores between the two fighters). http://www.fightmatrix.com/mma-records-stats/unusual-decisions/ Take a look [...]

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Posted on February 23, 2013 by jcs

For this statistic, we used the organization that fighters last fought in, unless a fight is scheduled (that we have in our DB).  The one thing I did do, is separate the 18 fighters who the UFC recently cut (Fitch group + Nunes and Vieira), into their own category.  We left out the StrikeForce fighters [...]

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Posted on February 19, 2013 by jcs

We did a post back in September, on the Average ranked height at each weight division. It’s probably “too soon” to start tracking trends, but I thought I would give it a shot, to see if the UFC’s involvement of smaller divisions is causing them to get “bigger”.  We will also add in the new [...]

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Posted on January 14, 2013 by jcs

A boring Saturday morning led me into one of the lesser known MMA fight databases on the Internet: http://www.valetudo.ru Although their overall accuracy and capacity is far less than that of Sherdog’s Fight Finder, they house quite a bit of eastern European and Russian fight results that are valid.  I presume that Sherdog visits their [...]

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Posted on December 24, 2012 by jcs

It should come as no surprise that Ronda Rousey, now holder of the only Women’s MMA championship that really matters, is our Women’s 2012 Fighter of the Year.  With two first round finishes against the best competition available, you could not have given the award to anyone else. The first runner-up is Ayaka Hamasaki who went [...]

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Posted on December 21, 2012 by oleg

We added another feature to our new Octagon Time page: longest & shortest average UFC fight time (minimum of 5 UFC bouts required). Holding the record for the shortest average fight time is the UFC 1 veteran Pat Smith, who achieve a 4-2 record in the promotion while averaging a little over a minute per [...]

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Posted on December 17, 2012 by oleg

As you may already know, during his UFC on Fox fight against Rory MacDonald, former lightweight and welterweight UFC champion BJ Penn surpassed Tito Ortiz’s record for the most total fight time in the UFC Octagon. We decided to put together a Top 25 of UFC fighters with most Octagon time clocked in over the [...]

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