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James Wilks

7-4-0
48y·6' 1"·75" reach·Orthodox
3:59
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.21
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
50%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 4 recorded bouts, 86 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 56%Body 21%Legs 23%
Position
Distance 48%Clinch 41%Ground 12%
And how often each lands
Head34%
Body75%
Legs77%
Distance35%
Clinch63%
Ground59%

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.

2Wins1 SUB · 1 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.

46%
Johnson
50%
Brown
22%
Sobotta
5%
Patrick

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
R11.96100%4
R21.5378%3
R31.9298%3

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min1.82
Strikes absorbed / min2.03
Striking accuracyof everything thrown45%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed50%
Takedowns / 15 min1.27
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land22%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed66%
Sub attempts / 15 min3.8
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together3.85
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 4 bouts11.8m

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.

35.0%
Landed at range
117 thrown over 4 bouts
Expected
against these opponents
Gap
below the cutoffs
Coverage
from real records

It takes 5 bouts before this comparison says anything. There are 4 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

LClaude PatrickOct 2010U-DEC0:48 ctrl12 str0 td
Significant strikes
12 of 28 · 43%
Total strikes
46 of 66 · 70%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:48
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 25%Body 33%Legs 42%
Position
Distance 25%Clinch 75%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WPeter SobottaJun 2010U-DEC3:19 ctrl38 str1 td
Significant strikes
38 of 80 · 48%
Total strikes
83 of 130 · 64%
Takedowns
1 of 5 · 20%
Control
3:19
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
2
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 55%Body 29%Legs 16%
Position
Distance 42%Clinch 37%Ground 21%
This fight on UFCStats
LMatt BrownNov 2009KO R36:11 ctrl19 str1 td
Significant strikes
19 of 53 · 36%
Total strikes
58 of 97 · 60%
Takedowns
1 of 10 · 10%
Control
6:11
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
3
Reversals
2
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 2:27
Punches to Head From Back Control
Target
Head 68%Body 5%Legs 26%
Position
Distance 84%Clinch 16%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WDaMarques JohnsonJun 2009SUB R12:15 ctrl17 str2 td
Significant strikes
17 of 29 · 59%
Total strikes
33 of 47 · 70%
Takedowns
2 of 2 · 100%
Control
2:15
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
8
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 4:54
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 65%Body 12%Legs 24%
Position
Distance 35%Clinch 53%Ground 12%
This fight on UFCStats

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