Posted on July 30, 2009 by jcs

The most important match is calculated by added both fighters’ pre-fight ranks together, then sorting it by the lowest amount first.
1st Place: Georges St. Pierre vs. BJ Penn II
T-2nd Place: Mike Brown vs. Urijah Faber II
T-2nd Place: Shinichi Kojima vs. Yuki Shoujo

Rounding out the Top 10
4th: Lyoto Machida vs. Rashad Evans
T-5th: Mike Brown vs. Leonard [...]

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Posted on April 17, 2009 by oleg

At UFC 97, former lightheavyweight champion Chuck Liddell will break a UFC record as soon as he steps into the Octagon for the twenty-second time in his career. Liddell will pull ahead of his long-time rival Tito Ortiz, with whom he currently shares the record at 21 UFC bouts.  Matt Hughes will also have 21 [...]

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Posted on April 15, 2009 by jcs

Leland Roling of MMA-Analyst posted some strength of schedule statistics on BloodyElbow.  He went two layers deep, and included the winning percentage of fighters’ opponents, as well as the opponents’ opponents.
Although his efforts were more than noteworthy, after taking a closer look, I felt the combination of the two layers was a bit subjective in [...]

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Posted on April 14, 2009 by jcs

We posted the original last June, and you can find the link at the bottom of this post.  Since then, we’ve had more bouts occur, we’ve improved the formulas, and added quite a bit of data,.
The significance of the upsets on this list is measured not by the betting odds, but by the difference in [...]

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Posted on February 19, 2009 by jcs

Diego Sanchez (A) beat Kenny Florian (B) on 4/9/2005
Kenny Florian (B) beat Joe Stevenson (C) on 11/15/2008
Diego Sanchez (A) ??? Joe Stevenson (C) on 2/21/2009
Rory Markham (A) beat Pat Healy (B) on 4/7/2007
Pat Healy (B) beat Dan Hardy (C) on 10/30/2004
Rory Markham (A) ??? Dan Hardy (C) on 2/21/2009
In both instances, the involved matches are [...]

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