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Joe Pyfer

16-3-0
29y·6' 2"·75" reach·Orthodox
1:38
Control / 15m
time on top
+0.30
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
88%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
2
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

Tells

Non-traditional predictors we've tested against the record. Only the ones that fire on this fighter show up here.

The Odometer

Backwards

Crossed into the heaviest third of head strikes eaten for their age in June 2024, 83 head strikes before that night. Never-yet-stopped fighters carrying that kind of mileage took a first KO in 11.0% of fights; the lightest third ran 15.6%.

Read the research

Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 8 recorded bouts, 253 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 70%Body 23%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 85%Clinch 3%Ground 13%
And how often each lands
Head37%
Body77%
Legs61%
Distance41%
Clinch58%
Ground68%

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.

8Wins5 KO · 2 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.

1%
Amedovski
8%
Meerschaert
16%
Alhassan
3%
Hermansson
1%
Barriault
3%
Gastelum
33%
Magomedov
29%
Adesanya

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
R13.30100%8
R24.23128%5
R33.902
R44.401
R50.801

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min3.52
Strikes absorbed / min3.22
Striking accuracyof everything thrown44%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed52%
Takedowns / 15 min1.45
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land30%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed62%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.9
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together6.74
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 8 bouts9.0m

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.

40.7%
Landed at range
526 thrown over 8 bouts
41.5%
Expected
against these opponents
−0.8pp
Gap
below expected
90.9%
Coverage
from real records
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

WIsrael AdesanyaMar 2026KO R22:44 ctrl36 str2 td
Significant strikes
36 of 70 · 51%
Total strikes
52 of 90 · 58%
Takedowns
2 of 8 · 25%
Control
2:44
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 4:18
Punches to Head From Mount
Target
Head 92%Body 6%Legs 3%
Position
Distance 50%Clinch 6%Ground 44%
This fight on UFCStats
WAbus MagomedovOct 2025SUB R22:16 ctrl6 str0 td
Significant strikes
6 of 10 · 60%
Total strikes
13 of 18 · 72%
Takedowns
0 of 4 · 0%
Control
2:16
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R2 1:46
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 100%Body 0%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 50%Clinch 0%Ground 50%
This fight on UFCStats
WKelvin GastelumJun 2025U-DEC0:31 ctrl57 str1 td
Significant strikes
57 of 114 · 50%
Total strikes
58 of 115 · 50%
Takedowns
1 of 2 · 50%
Control
0:31
Knockdowns
2
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 77%Body 21%Legs 2%
Position
Distance 89%Clinch 5%Ground 5%
This fight on UFCStats
WMarc-Andre BarriaultJun 2024KO R10:01 ctrl8 str0 td
Significant strikes
8 of 10 · 80%
Total strikes
8 of 10 · 80%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:01
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 1:25
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 50%Body 13%Legs 38%
Position
Distance 88%Clinch 0%Ground 13%
This fight on UFCStats
LJack HermanssonFeb 2024U-DEC0:50 ctrl92 str0 td
Significant strikes
92 of 250 · 37%
Total strikes
95 of 254 · 37%
Takedowns
0 of 6 · 0%
Control
0:50
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 5 rounds
Target
Head 61%Body 27%Legs 12%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WAbdul Razak AlhassanOct 2023SUB R21:07 ctrl26 str3 td
Significant strikes
26 of 62 · 42%
Total strikes
26 of 63 · 41%
Takedowns
3 of 4 · 75%
Control
1:07
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R2 2:05
Arm Triangle From Side Control
Target
Head 58%Body 35%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 92%Clinch 8%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WGerald MeerschaertApr 2023KO R10:16 ctrl14 str0 td
Significant strikes
14 of 24 · 58%
Total strikes
14 of 24 · 58%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:16
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 3:15
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 43%Body 57%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 43%Clinch 0%Ground 57%
This fight on UFCStats
WAlen AmedovskiSep 2022KO R10:03 ctrl14 str0 td
Significant strikes
14 of 45 · 31%
Total strikes
14 of 45 · 31%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:03
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 3:55
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 86%Body 7%Legs 7%
Position
Distance 93%Clinch 0%Ground 7%
This fight on UFCStats

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