Posted on December 5, 2011 by oleg

Season 14 of ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ reality series came to a close this past weekend. This was the first season of ‘TUF’ to feature featherweight and bantamweight fighters, and the last season to be aired on Spike TV; future seasons will be broadcast on Fx network as UFC makes a transition to the FOX family [...]

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Posted on November 7, 2011 by jcs

Dan Henderson has recently become the first fighter to reach the Top 50 in three divisions: Heavyweight (#46), Light Heavyweight (#8), and Middleweight (#4).  There are 46 fighters (including Dan) who are on two divisional Top 50s. Norifumi Yamamoto is his closest, active competitor as he is in three Top 55s.  A good streak at [...]

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Posted on October 20, 2011 by jcs

MMAJunkie posted an article regarding Dustin Jacoby, who will go from his non-UFC pro debut to a UFC card in 11 months. The quickest ever was Koji Kitao, who made his UFC debut at UFC 9, just 42 days after his non-UFC pro debut.  Since 2000, the record belongs to Frank Mir, who did so [...]

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Posted on October 14, 2011 by jcs

Using the rating system and a relatively unscientific methodology to qualify fighters, this is what a eight-man UFC Flyweight tournament may look like, with two alternate bouts. To qualify, fighters must fulfill one of the following: At least one true Flyweight bout in the last three years AND at least one bout in the US [...]

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Posted on October 8, 2011 by jcs

Last night’s fight between Ryan Jimmo and Sokoudjou was the closest unanimous decision in MMA history (that I know of) which didn’t include an even scorecard — yes, this has happened in Japan.  The scoring used a half-point system that some commissions outside of the USA have already adapted in boxing. The scores were for [...]

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Posted on September 21, 2011 by jcs

In the upcoming week or two, I plan to research all lineal championships from the beginning of MMA up until now, starting with Flyweight.  I wanted to post this announcement in an effort to get any type of brainstorming from our members on how to consider particular types of scenarios.  The challenges are: Inception – [...]

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Posted on September 15, 2011 by jcs

On April 1st, I made the initial blog post: Click Here For That In summary, we started tracking weigh-in weights, and I wanted to see if the heavier fighters won more often than lighter fighters.  Using the same ideals as before, with a much larger data set: In 506 non-draw official fights where both fighters [...]

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Posted on August 29, 2011 by jcs

He is the current #1 in the current Division Dominance rankings and Middleweight rankings.  He has been at the top of the Middleweight division for more than 4 years.  He has been ranked in our division dominance rankings since we started them in February 2008. He is #1 All-Time in our Absolute and Middleweight rankings. When [...]

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Posted on August 26, 2011 by jcs

Today, we look at active (fought in the last 360 days, debuted within the last 4 years), undefeated fighters (with at least 8 wins) who have made the least of their wins (and draws). All fighters start with a rating of 10, so the following list is sorted in ascending order, by the least amount [...]

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Posted on July 11, 2011 by jcs

Recently, we uncovered historical data which revealed that Hideo Tokoro competed in a 165lb fight early in his career.  This is a Welterweight fight, and marks Tokoro’s 6th weight division that he has competed in.  He is the only fighter (so far, that we know of) who has competed in more than 5 weight divisions [...]

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