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AJ Cunningham

11-5-0
32y·5' 10"·71" reach·Orthodox
0:20
Control / 15m
time on top
-2.09
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0
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.

Chin Decay

Predictive

First KO loss March 2024. Fighters at the same age and mileage lose by KO in 11.3% of fights; after a first KO it runs 17.3%.

Read the research

Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 2 recorded bouts, 52 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 50%Body 21%Legs 29%
Position
Distance 96%Clinch 4%Ground 0%
And how often each lands
Head28%
Body73%
Legs83%
Distance40%
Clinch67%

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.

0Wins
3Losses2 KO · 1 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.

9%
Klein
0%
You

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
R14.692
R21.201
R30.201

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min4.22
Strikes absorbed / min6.31
Striking accuracyof everything thrown29%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed48%
Takedowns / 15 min0
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land0%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed46%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.5
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together10.53
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 2 bouts9.8m

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.

40.3%
Landed at range
124 thrown over 2 bouts
Expected
against these opponents
Gap
below the cutoffs
Coverage
from real records

It takes 5 bouts before this comparison says anything. There are 2 here, so it's only showing what they actually landed.

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

LSuYoung YouMar 2025U-DEC0:00 ctrl16 str0 td
Significant strikes
16 of 52 · 31%
Total strikes
19 of 55 · 35%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 69%Body 6%Legs 25%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LLudovit KleinMar 2024KO R10:26 ctrl36 str0 td
Significant strikes
36 of 75 · 48%
Total strikes
36 of 77 · 47%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:26
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:36
Kick to Body At Distance Front Kick
Target
Head 42%Body 28%Legs 31%
Position
Distance 94%Clinch 6%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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