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Jose Delgado

12-2-0
28y·5' 11"·73" reach·Switch
1:17
Control / 15m
time on top
+1.89
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
60%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
1.4
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 March 2026, 69 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%.

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Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 5 recorded bouts, 293 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 59%Body 29%Legs 12%
Position
Distance 78%Clinch 10%Ground 11%
And how often each lands
Head45%
Body76%
Legs90%
Distance50%
Clinch77%
Ground79%

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.

5Wins3 KO · 2 DEC
1Losses1 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.

4%
Matthews
8%
Amil
10%
Wood
4%
Fili
13%
Bashi

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
R17.23100%5
R24.8066%3
R35.8781%3

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min6.07
Strikes absorbed / min4.18
Striking accuracyof everything thrown53%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed52%
Takedowns / 15 min1.37
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land38%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed63%
Sub attempts / 15 min0
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together10.25
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 5 bouts9.7m

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.

50.4%
Landed at range
456 thrown over 5 bouts
43.4%
Expected
against these opponents
+7.0pp
Gap
above expected
87.5%
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

WAustin BashiJul 2026U-DEC1:54 ctrl35 str1 td
Significant strikes
35 of 85 · 41%
Total strikes
70 of 126 · 56%
Takedowns
1 of 3 · 33%
Control
1:54
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 63%Body 26%Legs 11%
Position
Distance 83%Clinch 14%Ground 3%
This fight on UFCStats
WAndre FiliMar 2026S-DEC0:36 ctrl94 str1 td
Significant strikes
94 of 169 · 56%
Total strikes
103 of 179 · 58%
Takedowns
1 of 3 · 33%
Control
0:36
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 39%Body 36%Legs 24%
Position
Distance 88%Clinch 10%Ground 2%
This fight on UFCStats
LNathaniel WoodOct 2025U-DEC1:28 ctrl134 str0 td
Significant strikes
134 of 232 · 58%
Total strikes
141 of 239 · 59%
Takedowns
0 of 2 · 0%
Control
1:28
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 69%Body 26%Legs 5%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 10%Ground 15%
This fight on UFCStats
WHyder AmilJun 2025KO R10:02 ctrl9 str0 td
Significant strikes
9 of 11 · 82%
Total strikes
9 of 11 · 82%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:02
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 0:26
Knee to Head In Clinch
Target
Head 78%Body 22%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 44%Clinch 22%Ground 33%
This fight on UFCStats
WConnor MatthewsFeb 2025KO R10:08 ctrl21 str0 td
Significant strikes
21 of 40 · 53%
Total strikes
22 of 42 · 52%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:08
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:58
Punches to Head From Mount
Target
Head 67%Body 29%Legs 5%
Position
Distance 67%Clinch 0%Ground 33%
This fight on UFCStats

Showing 5 of the 6 bouts on record. The rest have not been read yet.

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