MMA Rankings, Records, Statistics

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jcs

Let’s face it, no rating system or ranking list is perfect, not even the one used here at Fight Matrix.  There are varying perspectives, varying protocols and complex calculations (well, at least here) at play. Where the media lists and personal lists suffer, which is in the realm of lacking knowledge and bias — we […]

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Posted on September 13, 2013 by jcs

If you are a long-time viewer of the site, you are probably familiar with the term, “quality performance”.  If not, we made a blog post about it and the associated decay way back in 2008.  Simply put, a fighter registers a quality performance when they fight another fighter reasonably close to or above their own rating […]

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Posted on September 2, 2013 by jcs

In the past two years (and one week), we’ve seen 8 UFC shows take place in Brazil, with this amount steadily increasing — 1 in 2011, 3 in 2012, 7 in 2013 (3 still to come). Given that a large majority of UFC shows and their fighter population reside outside of Brazil, how “fair” is […]

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Posted on August 5, 2013 by jcs

Sherdog, one of the most, if not THE most respected MMA web site on the Internet has produced Top 10 rankings for quite sometime.  I thought I would take a look at their latest Top 10s and compare the differences between the fights they rank and the ones we rank, including some commentary. Heavyweight Rank […]

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Posted on July 15, 2013 by jcs

I had every intent to create a blog entry, detailing the performance of undefeated winners in an immediate rematch. However, in known professional MMA history, Chris Weidman will be the first undefeated fighter to give his opponent (Anderson Silva) an immediate rematch after winning the first match — unless it is beaten by a bout […]

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Posted on May 28, 2013 by oleg

Another fun statistic has been added to our collection: Fight outcomes broken down by weight division. MMA Fight Outcomes by Weight Class UFC Fight Outcomes by Weight Class Bellator Fight Outcomes by Weight Class Also check out the other entries in this series: MMA Fight Outcomes by Year UFC Fight Outcomes By Year Bellator Fight […]

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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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