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Kevin Vallejos

18-1-0
24y·5' 7"·68" reach·Switch
1:49
Control / 15m
time on top
+1.71
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
80%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
2.5
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 December 2025, 55 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 4 recorded bouts, 160 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 68%Body 23%Legs 10%
Position
Distance 76%Clinch 13%Ground 12%
And how often each lands
Head40%
Body67%
Legs80%
Distance42%
Clinch71%
Ground76%

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.

5Wins4 KO · 1 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.

3%
Choi
8%
Silva
23%
Chikadze
18%
Emmett

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
R14.67100%4
R27.082
R37.201

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min6.12
Strikes absorbed / min4.41
Striking accuracyof everything thrown48%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed57%
Takedowns / 15 min0.66
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land28%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed84%
Sub attempts / 15 min0
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together10.53
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 4 bouts7.0m

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.

41.7%
Landed at range
290 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

WJosh EmmettMar 2026KO R10:38 ctrl36 str0 td
Significant strikes
36 of 55 · 65%
Total strikes
43 of 68 · 63%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:38
Knockdowns
2
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 3:33
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 83%Body 11%Legs 6%
Position
Distance 33%Clinch 28%Ground 39%
This fight on UFCStats
WGiga ChikadzeDec 2025KO R21:28 ctrl20 str0 td
Significant strikes
20 of 32 · 63%
Total strikes
23 of 35 · 66%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
1:28
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 1:29
Spinning Back Fist Head
Target
Head 70%Body 10%Legs 20%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 5%Ground 20%
This fight on UFCStats
WDanny SilvaAug 2025U-DEC1:14 ctrl90 str2 td
Significant strikes
90 of 229 · 39%
Total strikes
90 of 230 · 39%
Takedowns
2 of 5 · 40%
Control
1:14
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 67%Body 30%Legs 3%
Position
Distance 90%Clinch 10%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WSeungWoo ChoiMar 2025KO R10:05 ctrl14 str0 td
Significant strikes
14 of 27 · 52%
Total strikes
26 of 39 · 67%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:05
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 3:09
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 29%Body 21%Legs 50%
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.