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Cole Escovedo

17-9-0
45y·5' 7"·72" reach·Orthodox
1:03
Control / 15m
time on top
-2.55
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
100%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 3 recorded bouts, 82 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 34%Body 50%Legs 16%
Position
Distance 80%Clinch 18%Ground 1%
And how often each lands
Head27%
Body84%
Legs62%
Distance45%
Clinch60%
Ground50%

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.

2Wins2 KO
6Losses2 KO · 1 SUB · 3 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.

1%
Barao
7%
Mizugaki
13%
Caceres

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
R11.87100%3
R22.00107%3
R32.502

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min1.77
Strikes absorbed / min4.32
Striking accuracyof everything thrown43%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed49%
Takedowns / 15 min0.43
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land33%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed13%
Sub attempts / 15 min0
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together6.09
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 3 bouts13.2m

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.

44.9%
Landed at range
147 thrown over 3 bouts
Expected
against these opponents
Gap
below the cutoffs
Coverage
from real records

It takes 5 bouts before this comparison says anything. There are 3 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

LAlex CaceresNov 2011U-DEC1:55 ctrl24 str2 td
Significant strikes
24 of 58 · 41%
Total strikes
28 of 63 · 44%
Takedowns
2 of 4 · 50%
Control
1:55
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 33%Body 46%Legs 21%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LTakeya MizugakiSep 2011KO R20:40 ctrl29 str0 td
Significant strikes
29 of 51 · 57%
Total strikes
33 of 56 · 59%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:40
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 4:30
Punches to Head In Clinch
Target
Head 34%Body 55%Legs 10%
Position
Distance 52%Clinch 48%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LRenan BaraoMay 2011U-DEC0:12 ctrl29 str0 td
Significant strikes
29 of 65 · 45%
Total strikes
48 of 84 · 57%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:12
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 34%Body 48%Legs 17%
Position
Distance 93%Clinch 3%Ground 3%
This fight on UFCStats

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