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Brad Blackburn

18-13-1 (1 NC)
49y·5' 10"·73" reach·Orthodox
2:15
Control / 15m
time on top
+0.96
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
33%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
1.7
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 5 recorded bouts, 294 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 62%Body 15%Legs 23%
Position
Distance 87%Clinch 5%Ground 8%
And how often each lands
Head28%
Body54%
Legs77%
Distance34%
Clinch46%
Ground66%

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.

3Wins1 KO · 2 DEC
2Losses1 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.

48%
Giboo
2%
Chonan
1%
Garcia
16%
Sadollah
26%
Johnson

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
R15.60100%5
R25.0290%5
R32.4043%4

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min4.55
Strikes absorbed / min3.59
Striking accuracyof everything thrown35%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed65%
Takedowns / 15 min0.93
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land50%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed76%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.7
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together8.14
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 5 bouts12.9m

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.

33.7%
Landed at range
757 thrown over 5 bouts
Expected
against these opponents
Gap
below the cutoffs
Coverage
from real records

Too much of this record was set against opponents who had no distance history of their own yet. The expected number would mostly be the division average wearing a disguise, so it's held back.

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

LDaMarques JohnsonApr 2010KO R33:11 ctrl59 str4 td
Significant strikes
59 of 132 · 45%
Total strikes
83 of 165 · 50%
Takedowns
4 of 5 · 80%
Control
3:11
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 2:08
Kick to Body At Distance
Target
Head 54%Body 20%Legs 25%
Position
Distance 93%Clinch 2%Ground 5%
This fight on UFCStats
LAmir SadollahJan 2010U-DEC2:28 ctrl37 str0 td
Significant strikes
37 of 150 · 25%
Total strikes
67 of 180 · 37%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
2:28
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 51%Body 19%Legs 30%
Position
Distance 84%Clinch 16%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WEdgar GarciaJun 2009S-DEC0:05 ctrl66 str0 td
Significant strikes
66 of 162 · 41%
Total strikes
66 of 162 · 41%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:05
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 55%Body 17%Legs 29%
Position
Distance 95%Clinch 5%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WRyo ChonanDec 2008U-DEC0:21 ctrl79 str0 td
Significant strikes
79 of 296 · 27%
Total strikes
84 of 301 · 28%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:21
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 61%Body 13%Legs 27%
Position
Distance 96%Clinch 1%Ground 3%
This fight on UFCStats
WJames GibooJul 2008KO R23:37 ctrl53 str0 td
Significant strikes
53 of 87 · 61%
Total strikes
84 of 120 · 70%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
3:37
Knockdowns
4
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 2:29
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 87%Body 8%Legs 6%
Position
Distance 57%Clinch 9%Ground 34%
This fight on UFCStats

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