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Lerone Murphy

17-1-1
35y·5' 9"·73" reach·Orthodox
1:57
Control / 15m
time on top
+1.69
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
33%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0.4
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 October 2024, 128 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 11 recorded bouts, 707 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 64%Body 21%Legs 15%
Position
Distance 82%Clinch 10%Ground 9%
And how often each lands
Head43%
Body70%
Legs83%
Distance48%
Clinch83%
Ground69%

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.

9Wins3 KO · 6 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.

1%
Tukhugov
32%
Ramos
12%
Andrade
4%
Amirkhani
15%
Santos
51%
Culibao
21%
Barboza
15%
Ige
0%
Emmett
0%
Pico
0%
Evloev

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
R13.36100%11
R24.13123%9
R34.97148%8
R46.47193%3
R54.53135%3

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min4.34
Strikes absorbed / min2.65
Striking accuracyof everything thrown51%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed60%
Takedowns / 15 min1.2
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land54%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed44%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.5
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together6.99
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 11 bouts14.8m

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.

47.6%
Landed at range
1,213 thrown over 11 bouts
37.8%
Expected
against these opponents
+9.8pp
Gap
above expected
82.2%
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

LMovsar EvloevMar 2026M-DEC0:00 ctrl89 str0 td
Significant strikes
89 of 239 · 37%
Total strikes
89 of 239 · 37%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Majority decision, 5 rounds
Target
Head 51%Body 27%Legs 22%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WAaron PicoAug 2025KO R10:00 ctrl8 str0 td
Significant strikes
8 of 16 · 50%
Total strikes
8 of 16 · 50%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 3:21
Spinning Back Elbow to Head At Distance
Target
Head 50%Body 50%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 13%Ground 13%
This fight on UFCStats
WJosh EmmettApr 2025U-DEC0:06 ctrl84 str0 td
Significant strikes
84 of 157 · 54%
Total strikes
117 of 195 · 60%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:06
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 5 rounds
Target
Head 44%Body 20%Legs 36%
Position
Distance 89%Clinch 11%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WDan IgeOct 2024U-DEC2:17 ctrl52 str3 td
Significant strikes
52 of 100 · 52%
Total strikes
78 of 133 · 59%
Takedowns
3 of 5 · 60%
Control
2:17
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 69%Body 23%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 71%Clinch 23%Ground 6%
This fight on UFCStats
WEdson BarbozaMay 2024U-DEC5:19 ctrl220 str4 td
Significant strikes
220 of 364 · 60%
Total strikes
259 of 410 · 63%
Takedowns
4 of 6 · 67%
Control
5:19
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 5 rounds
Target
Head 78%Body 12%Legs 10%
Position
Distance 93%Clinch 6%Ground 1%
This fight on UFCStats
WJosh CulibaoJul 2023U-DEC7:38 ctrl59 str3 td
Significant strikes
59 of 109 · 54%
Total strikes
87 of 144 · 60%
Takedowns
3 of 5 · 60%
Control
7:38
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 63%Body 25%Legs 12%
Position
Distance 41%Clinch 20%Ground 39%
This fight on UFCStats
WGabriel SantosMar 2023S-DEC2:18 ctrl93 str1 td
Significant strikes
93 of 161 · 58%
Total strikes
115 of 183 · 63%
Takedowns
1 of 2 · 50%
Control
2:18
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 63%Body 29%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 83%Clinch 13%Ground 4%
This fight on UFCStats
WMakwan AmirkhaniOct 2021KO R20:11 ctrl4 str0 td
Significant strikes
4 of 5 · 80%
Total strikes
7 of 8 · 88%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:11
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 0:14
Knee to Head In Clinch
Target
Head 100%Body 0%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 25%Clinch 0%Ground 75%
This fight on UFCStats
WDouglas Silva de AndradeJan 2021U-DEC1:51 ctrl48 str1 td
Significant strikes
48 of 115 · 42%
Total strikes
60 of 131 · 46%
Takedowns
1 of 4 · 25%
Control
1:51
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 60%Body 17%Legs 23%
Position
Distance 77%Clinch 13%Ground 10%
This fight on UFCStats
WRicardo RamosJul 2020KO R11:22 ctrl22 str1 td
Significant strikes
22 of 40 · 55%
Total strikes
24 of 42 · 57%
Takedowns
1 of 2 · 50%
Control
1:22
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:18
Punches to Head From Half Guard
Target
Head 64%Body 23%Legs 14%
Position
Distance 14%Clinch 9%Ground 77%
This fight on UFCStats
DZubaira TukhugovSep 2019S-DEC0:11 ctrl28 str0 td
Significant strikes
28 of 78 · 36%
Total strikes
65 of 116 · 56%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:11
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
1
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 43%Body 46%Legs 11%
Position
Distance 82%Clinch 7%Ground 11%
This fight on UFCStats

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