Every UFC bout back to March 1994, counted round by round. And the things everyone believes about fights, checked against it.
- Events
- 787
- Bouts
- 8,851
- Fighters
- 2,755
Drag the year
A bout page shows what the record holds for that fight and nothing else. Drag the year forward and watch it fill in.
- Tale of the tapeNames, method, round and clock. Every bout on file has these.
- Open weight and one-night bracketsBrackets drawn on the event page. Some fighters went three deep in a night.
- Round by roundUFCStats filed nearly every fight before 1998 as one long round. The totals are the whole fight.
- Control timeNobody was counting it yet. Strikes and takedowns are complete, control is simply not there.
- Five-round main eventsOnly title fights went five. Everything else stopped at three.
- Women's boutsNo women's bout on any card until February 2013.
- The crew's picksThe crew joined Tapology in January 2021. Nobody here was picking these.
- Walking inBoth records and both sets of rates as they stood that morning. A debut has none, which is correct.
- TellsA Tell shows up when it fires on one of the two fighters, whatever the year. Most never do.
What this is
Everything on file is UFC. One promotion, counted the same way for thirty years, is what lets a 1997 number sit next to a 2026 one without lying. Others get in once they’ve run long enough and been counted well enough to hold up beside it. That’s a bar, and nobody’s cleared it yet.
No two pages here look the same, because no two fights left the same paper trail. A 1995 bout is a name, a method and a clock. A bout from last month has rounds, control time, both corners as they walked in, and whether the crew called it. When something’s missing, the page says so. Thin is fine. Wrong isn’t.
Two pages here never say the same things, and that’s the plan. What shows up for a fighter is whatever’s true of that fighter and almost nobody else. The common stuff stays in the tape. The rare stuff gets the room.
The chat has a hundred theories about who wins. Bad chin, too many miles, talking about retirement. We write them down, freeze the method before the data lands, and publish the answer either way. Most come back as nothing. The ones that don’t are the reason the site exists.
The chat says
Pick a theory the chat has been running for years. Tap to see what the record said.
The chat says
The Odometer
Everyone reads high mileage as a countdown. We checked which way it counts.
One dot per Tell. 97 imagined, 3 tested, 1 still counting. The red ones have an answer.
What it isn’t
- Not Tapology. Tapology is the lookup: every fight in every promotion, and it’s where our picks live. This is what you read after you’ve looked something up. We’ll cover more promotions in time. We won’t turn into a table.
- Not a schedule. What’s on tonight in Manchester is a question for somebody else.
- Not a sportsbook. Odds show up when they explain a pick. They never flash.
- Not a highlight reel. Nothing here moves unless a number changed.
- Not made up on the spot. Nothing is written when you open a page. If it’s on screen, it’s on file, with where it came from.
Why the old sites went quiet
Sherdog’s Fight Finder was the record for twenty years and still is one. FightMetric counted the strikes and became UFCStats, which is where our numbers come from. Tapology holds every fight in every promotion, plus our picks. All three do a job, and all three stopped at the same place: the table. You can look a fighter up. You can’t ask the site what it thinks, because it doesn’t. The questions worth asking are the ones the chat argues about at 1am, and nobody had put a number to any of them. So we did, and we print the misses with the hits.