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Houston Alexander

17-15-1 (2 NC)
54y·6' 0"·72" reach·Orthodox
1:05
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.14
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
100%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
3.3
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 6 recorded bouts, 92 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 53%Body 8%Legs 39%
Position
Distance 49%Clinch 26%Ground 25%
And how often each lands
Head46%
Body70%
Legs75%
Distance50%
Clinch65%
Ground61%

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
4Losses2 KO · 1 SUB · 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.

40%
Jardine
23%
Sakara
14%
Silva
0%
Irvin
11%
Schafer
2%
Ferguson

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
R13.99100%6
R22.201
R34.001

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min3.06
Strikes absorbed / min3.2
Striking accuracyof everything thrown54%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed52%
Takedowns / 15 min1.19
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land57%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed33%
Sub attempts / 15 min0
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together6.26
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 6 bouts4.2m

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.

22.7%
Landed at range
22 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

LKevin FergusonDec 2009U-DEC0:16 ctrl43 str0 td
Significant strikes
43 of 79 · 54%
Total strikes
61 of 98 · 62%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:16
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 26%Body 0%Legs 74%
Position
Distance 93%Clinch 2%Ground 5%
This fight on UFCStats
LEric SchaferSep 2008SUB R10:32 ctrl12 str0 td
Significant strikes
12 of 21 · 57%
Total strikes
22 of 31 · 71%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:32
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 4:53
Arm Triangle From Side Control
Target
Head 58%Body 25%Legs 17%
Position
Distance 25%Clinch 33%Ground 42%
This fight on UFCStats
LJames IrvinApr 2008KO R10:00 ctrl0 str0 td
Significant strikes
0 of 1 · 0%
Total strikes
0 of 1 · 0%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 0:08
Punches to Head At Distance
This fight on UFCStats
LThiago SilvaNov 2007KO R10:28 ctrl2 str1 td
Significant strikes
2 of 8 · 25%
Total strikes
2 of 8 · 25%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
0:28
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 3:25
Punches to Head From Mount
Target
Head 0%Body 50%Legs 50%
Position
Distance 0%Clinch 100%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WAlessio SakaraSep 2007KO R10:14 ctrl18 str0 td
Significant strikes
18 of 36 · 50%
Total strikes
18 of 36 · 50%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:14
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 1:01
Knee to Head In Clinch
Target
Head 94%Body 6%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 6%Clinch 22%Ground 72%
This fight on UFCStats
WKeith JardineMay 2007KO R10:19 ctrl17 str0 td
Significant strikes
17 of 20 · 85%
Total strikes
17 of 20 · 85%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:19
Knockdowns
2
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 0:48
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 82%Body 12%Legs 6%
Position
Distance 6%Clinch 76%Ground 18%
This fight on UFCStats

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