Posted on June 15, 2011 by jcs

According to Sherdog, Murilo Bustamante, 44, will fight on, making his debut in the Welterweight division against [#70] Yuyi Shirai on July 20th.  Bustamante currently holds the “longest career” record for active (and probably all) fighters, and this next fight will stretch his career length to nearly 20 years.  Bustamante is currently ranked in the Middleweight [...]

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Posted on June 14, 2011 by jcs

We’re not quite halfway through the year, but I wanted to post about this in case I forgot.  Just in case you did not know (or forgot), we have an awards page that we will populate after the end of each year that covers a wide array of categories.  For more particulars, please visit that [...]

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Posted on June 3, 2011 by jcs

You may (or may not) have wondered how a bout fought in a fighter’s home country increases his chances of beating an opponent from a different country and how this can be associated to the rating system. Wonder no more. The rating advantage within the FightMatrix system is about a 1.5% advantage for the home [...]

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Posted on June 2, 2011 by jcs

The highest win percentage by a nationality fighting in another country (with a minimum of 100 results) has been achieved by Brazilians fighting in the United States.  They have won at a percentage of 65.5%. On the other hand, Japanese fighters in the United States have only achieved a paltry 39.2%. Note: Draws were excluded.

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Posted on May 25, 2011 by jcs

Being involved (prior to Fight Matrix) in the rating system at BoxRec, I discovered many of the factors that prove to be advantages (or disadvantages) to fighters.  One of them was the advantage of fighting on home soil.  This seems pretty obvious, but the advantage was MASSIVE, much larger than you’d expect.  Due to the [...]

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Posted on May 16, 2011 by Jonathan

Bellator Fighting Championships 44 May 14, 2011 Caesars Atlantic City Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States Bellator Lightweight Tournament Final Lightweight (155 lbs) Michael Chandler (8 – 0 – 0) won a unanimous decision over Patricky Freire (9 – 2 – 0).  Chandler upset Freire, spending the first two rounds trading with [...]

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Posted on April 21, 2011 by jcs

  If I get a chance, I’ll make the lines easier to follow, but this is a list of the proportion of divisional bouts (using our limits — men only) taking place within a calendar year.  In other words, 27.6% of bouts in 2001 that we have division info for, took place at Heavyweight. Here [...]

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Posted on April 14, 2011 by jcs

Today, we’re going to look at a fighter’s prime, and if a distinctive peak period can be ascertained by looking at a combination of age AND “career age” (time between debut date and fight date).  In most professional sports, it’s usually agreed upon that a person’s prime is between their late 20s and early-mid 30s, [...]

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Posted on April 13, 2011 by jcs

With almost 3,000 birthdates now (nearly twice as many as before), we’re now going to see if fighters get more complacent with age.  This analysis looks at almost 28,000 fights, which I consider to be an acceptable sample set. Furthermore, I am only analyzing wins with known outcome types and am considered a finish as [...]

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Posted on April 13, 2011 by jcs

Today, we look at the rate of stoppage losses and how it affects aging fighters.  The critics against older fighters competing should have a good time with this one. First, a few notes. I included TKOs, KOs, and DQs in the stoppages. The “dotted line” represents the sample average. The “red line” represents the trendline [...]

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