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Brian Foster

27-10-0
42y·5' 9"·71" reach·Orthodox
4:08
Control / 15m
time on top
+1.67
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
100%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
1.2
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 5 recorded bouts, 81 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 75%Body 17%Legs 7%
Position
Distance 41%Clinch 6%Ground 53%
And how often each lands
Head35%
Body78%
Legs67%
Distance29%
Clinch45%
Ground55%

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.

3Wins2 KO · 1 SUB
2Losses2 SUB

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.

1%
Story
35%
Larson
15%
Lytle
15%
Petz
46%
Brown

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
R13.03100%5
R23.97131%3

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min3.3
Strikes absorbed / min1.63
Striking accuracyof everything thrown39%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed65%
Takedowns / 15 min3.67
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land60%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed37%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.8
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together4.93
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 5 bouts4.9m

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.

28.9%
Landed at range
114 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

WMatt BrownNov 2010SUB R23:19 ctrl25 str3 td
Significant strikes
25 of 44 · 57%
Total strikes
36 of 63 · 57%
Takedowns
3 of 3 · 100%
Control
3:19
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
1
Ended
Submission, R2 2:11
Guillotine Choke After Drop to Guard
Target
Head 60%Body 32%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 44%Clinch 8%Ground 48%
This fight on UFCStats
WForrest PetzSep 2010KO R10:10 ctrl17 str0 td
Significant strikes
17 of 27 · 63%
Total strikes
20 of 32 · 63%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:10
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 1:07
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 88%Body 6%Legs 6%
Position
Distance 35%Clinch 0%Ground 65%
This fight on UFCStats
LChris LytleFeb 2010SUB R10:15 ctrl5 str1 td
Significant strikes
5 of 22 · 23%
Total strikes
6 of 23 · 26%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
0:15
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 1:41
Kneebar From Inoki-Ali Position
Target
Head 100%Body 0%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 80%Clinch 0%Ground 20%
This fight on UFCStats
WBrock LarsonNov 2009KO R22:57 ctrl28 str2 td
Significant strikes
28 of 63 · 44%
Total strikes
57 of 93 · 61%
Takedowns
2 of 4 · 50%
Control
2:57
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 3:25
Punches to Head On Ground Submission to Strikes; Two Points Deducted: Illegal Strike to Grounded Opponent by Larson
Target
Head 79%Body 11%Legs 11%
Position
Distance 25%Clinch 7%Ground 68%
This fight on UFCStats
LRick StorySep 2009SUB R20:05 ctrl6 str0 td
Significant strikes
6 of 47 · 13%
Total strikes
16 of 57 · 28%
Takedowns
0 of 2 · 0%
Control
0:05
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R2 1:09
Arm Triangle From Half Guard
Target
Head 67%Body 33%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 83%Clinch 17%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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