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Joseph Morales

Bopo
15-2-0
32y·5' 6"·69" reach·Switch
2:33
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.05
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
100%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
1.3
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 5 recorded bouts, 79 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 63%Body 29%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 56%Clinch 14%Ground 30%
And how often each lands
Head32%
Body74%
Legs75%
Distance33%
Clinch58%
Ground56%

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.

3Wins3 SUB
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.

26%
Sanchez
0%
Figueiredo
6%
Shelton
45%
Idiris
41%
Schnell

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
R11.65100%5
R23.02183%3
R31.001

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min2
Strikes absorbed / min2.05
Striking accuracyof everything thrown40%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed57%
Takedowns / 15 min1.14
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land42%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed26%
Sub attempts / 15 min3
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together4.05
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 5 bouts7.9m

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.

33.1%
Landed at range
133 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

WMatt SchnellNov 2025SUB R11:12 ctrl5 str0 td
Significant strikes
5 of 11 · 45%
Total strikes
12 of 18 · 67%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:12
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
1
Ended
Submission, R1 2:54
Guillotine Choke From Guard
Target
Head 80%Body 0%Legs 20%
Position
Distance 40%Clinch 0%Ground 60%
This fight on UFCStats
WAlibi IdirisAug 2025SUB R23:38 ctrl29 str2 td
Significant strikes
29 of 63 · 46%
Total strikes
44 of 86 · 51%
Takedowns
2 of 5 · 40%
Control
3:38
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R2 3:04
Triangle Choke From Bottom Guard
Target
Head 52%Body 45%Legs 3%
Position
Distance 62%Clinch 31%Ground 7%
This fight on UFCStats
LEric SheltonNov 2018S-DEC0:51 ctrl24 str1 td
Significant strikes
24 of 67 · 36%
Total strikes
28 of 71 · 39%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
0:51
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
4
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 58%Body 33%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 67%Clinch 4%Ground 29%
This fight on UFCStats
LDeiveson FigueiredoFeb 2018KO R20:00 ctrl9 str0 td
Significant strikes
9 of 32 · 28%
Total strikes
11 of 35 · 31%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 4:34
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 56%Body 22%Legs 22%
Position
Distance 78%Clinch 0%Ground 22%
This fight on UFCStats
WRobert SanchezAug 2017SUB R11:01 ctrl12 str0 td
Significant strikes
12 of 22 · 55%
Total strikes
15 of 26 · 58%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:01
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 3:56
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 100%Body 0%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 8%Clinch 8%Ground 83%
This fight on UFCStats

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