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Payton Talbott

11-1-0
28y·5' 10"·70" reach·Switch
3:20
Control / 15m
time on top
+3.21
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
50%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0.8
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

Tells

Non-traditional predictors we've tested against the record. Only the ones that fire on this fighter show up here.

The Odometer

Backwards

Crossed into the heaviest third of head strikes eaten for their age in June 2025, 76 head strikes before that night. Never-yet-stopped fighters carrying that kind of mileage took a first KO in 11.0% of fights; the lightest third ran 15.6%.

Read the research

Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 6 recorded bouts, 362 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 72%Body 20%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 65%Clinch 12%Ground 23%
And how often each lands
Head53%
Body84%
Legs94%
Distance51%
Clinch84%
Ground80%

How fights end

UFC bouts only, so these will not add up to the record above. Counts rather than rates: two knockouts in three wins is not a 67% finisher.

6Wins2 KO · 1 SUB · 3 DEC
1Losses1 DEC

Control, bout by bout

Seconds spent controlling the opponent in each fight, oldest on the left. UFCStats records this per bout and never adds it up; this is what that looks like added up.

31%
Aguirre
9%
Saaiman
5%
Ghemmouri
9%
Barcelos
32%
Lima
23%
Cejudo

As the fight goes on

Which measure to show

Significant strikes landed, per minute fought. Every round is measured against round one, except rounds reached by fewer than 3 bouts, which are dimmed and left uncompared.

Landed / minvs R1Bouts
R15.10100%6
R26.42126%5
R36.38125%4

Only fights that reached a round count towards it, so later rounds are a smaller sample.

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min6.62
Strikes absorbed / min3.41
Striking accuracyof everything thrown56%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed46%
Takedowns / 15 min0.78
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land44%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed77%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.2
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together10.03
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 6 bouts10.3m

Earned Accuracy

How hard the opponents on this record were to hit at distance, and whether they beat it. Distance strikes only, so nobody gets credit for accuracy they picked up hammering someone already flat on the floor.

51.2%
Landed at range
457 thrown over 6 bouts
38.1%
Expected
against these opponents
+13.1pp
Gap
above expected
86.5%
Coverage
from real records
The fine print

Distance strikes only

Nothing thrown in the clinch or on the ground counts. Those land at about 72% and 71%, against 44% at distance, so a blended accuracy mostly measures where a fight happened. Rank the sport that way and its best strikers are all wrestlers.

One pass, not a rating

How much each opponent lets through is taken raw. It isn't adjusted for who they fought, so a fighter whose opponents all had soft schedules comes out looking better here than they are. Running it to convergence is a later job.

Coverage, and who gets ranked

Coverage is how much of the expected number came from the opponents' own records instead of the division average. Under 65% it's mostly the division talking, so the comparison gets hidden. Same for anyone under 5 qualifying bouts, or under 300 distance strikes of their own, which is where an accuracy still moves on a single exchange. Miss any of the three and you'll see what they landed, nothing else, and they stay out of any ranking.

Short records get pulled to the middle

An opponent who hasn't been shot at much gets dragged toward their division's average, and the drag fades as their record fills in. At 60 distance strikes faced, their own record and the division average count for the same.

Bout log

WHenry CejudoDec 2025U-DEC3:31 ctrl134 str3 td
Significant strikes
134 of 217 · 62%
Total strikes
156 of 240 · 65%
Takedowns
3 of 5 · 60%
Control
3:31
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 66%Body 25%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 67%Clinch 21%Ground 12%
This fight on UFCStats
WFelipe LimaJun 2025U-DEC4:49 ctrl59 str0 td
Significant strikes
59 of 118 · 50%
Total strikes
97 of 165 · 59%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
4:49
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 81%Body 8%Legs 10%
Position
Distance 63%Clinch 3%Ground 34%
This fight on UFCStats
LRaoni BarcelosJan 2025U-DEC1:25 ctrl49 str1 td
Significant strikes
49 of 84 · 58%
Total strikes
59 of 95 · 62%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
1:25
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 80%Body 14%Legs 6%
Position
Distance 76%Clinch 14%Ground 10%
This fight on UFCStats
WYanis GhemmouriJun 2024KO R10:01 ctrl13 str0 td
Significant strikes
13 of 13 · 100%
Total strikes
13 of 13 · 100%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:01
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 0:19
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 92%Body 0%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 31%Clinch 0%Ground 69%
This fight on UFCStats
WCameron SaaimanMar 2024KO R20:30 ctrl79 str0 td
Significant strikes
79 of 129 · 61%
Total strikes
83 of 135 · 61%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:30
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 0:21
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 66%Body 27%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 68%Clinch 8%Ground 24%
This fight on UFCStats
WNick AguirreNov 2023SUB R33:25 ctrl28 str0 td
Significant strikes
28 of 53 · 53%
Total strikes
58 of 90 · 64%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
3:25
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R3 0:58
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 79%Body 14%Legs 7%
Position
Distance 43%Clinch 0%Ground 57%
This fight on UFCStats

Numbers from UFCStats. Control time and strike placement are summed from each bout, everything else is as published.