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Mason Jones

The Dragon
18-2-0 (1 NC)
31y·5' 10"·74" reach·Orthodox
4:01
Control / 15m
time on top
+1.53
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
25%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0.2
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 October 2021, 59 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, 618 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 69%Body 23%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 72%Clinch 16%Ground 12%
And how often each lands
Head37%
Body74%
Legs87%
Distance38%
Clinch67%
Ground67%

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.

4Wins1 KO · 3 DEC
2Losses2 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.

6%
Davis
51%
Patrick
60%
Onama
15%
Klein
40%
Stephens
44%
Oki
1%
Sola
7%
Mederos

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
R16.05100%8
R27.40122%8
R35.3689%5

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min5.98
Strikes absorbed / min4.45
Striking accuracyof everything thrown42%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed50%
Takedowns / 15 min3.48
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land55%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed73%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.2
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together10.43
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 8 bouts12.2m

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.

37.6%
Landed at range
1,024 thrown over 7 bouts
37.9%
Expected
against these opponents
−0.3pp
Gap
below expected
72.7%
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

LMarQuel MederosAug 2026KO R20:30 ctrl77 str1 td
Significant strikes
77 of 151 · 51%
Total strikes
84 of 158 · 53%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
0:30
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 2:07
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 69%Body 25%Legs 6%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 19%Ground 5%
This fight on UFCStats
WAxel SolaMar 2026U-DEC0:05 ctrl110 str0 td
Significant strikes
110 of 236 · 47%
Total strikes
123 of 251 · 49%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:05
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 69%Body 26%Legs 5%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 24%Ground 1%
This fight on UFCStats
WBolaji OkiSep 2025KO R23:41 ctrl57 str2 td
Significant strikes
57 of 136 · 42%
Total strikes
67 of 147 · 46%
Takedowns
2 of 2 · 100%
Control
3:41
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 3:18
Elbows to Head From Mount
Target
Head 91%Body 4%Legs 5%
Position
Distance 40%Clinch 4%Ground 56%
This fight on UFCStats
WJeremy StephensMay 2025U-DEC6:03 ctrl81 str8 td
Significant strikes
81 of 231 · 35%
Total strikes
104 of 261 · 40%
Takedowns
8 of 12 · 67%
Control
6:03
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 62%Body 23%Legs 15%
Position
Distance 91%Clinch 6%Ground 2%
This fight on UFCStats
LLudovit KleinJul 2022U-DEC2:17 ctrl43 str0 td
Significant strikes
43 of 105 · 41%
Total strikes
78 of 141 · 55%
Takedowns
0 of 3 · 0%
Control
2:17
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 37%Body 53%Legs 9%
Position
Distance 49%Clinch 49%Ground 2%
This fight on UFCStats
WDavid OnamaOct 2021U-DEC9:01 ctrl87 str8 td
Significant strikes
87 of 157 · 55%
Total strikes
116 of 191 · 61%
Takedowns
8 of 14 · 57%
Control
9:01
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 75%Body 23%Legs 2%
Position
Distance 79%Clinch 11%Ground 9%
This fight on UFCStats
NCAlan PatrickJun 2021NC R23:41 ctrl46 str2 td
Significant strikes
46 of 85 · 54%
Total strikes
57 of 100 · 57%
Takedowns
2 of 3 · 67%
Control
3:41
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Could not continue, R2 2:14
Eye Poke by Jones
Target
Head 70%Body 28%Legs 2%
Position
Distance 24%Clinch 20%Ground 57%
This fight on UFCStats
LMike DavisJan 2021U-DEC0:51 ctrl117 str1 td
Significant strikes
117 of 313 · 37%
Total strikes
132 of 329 · 40%
Takedowns
1 of 4 · 25%
Control
0:51
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 71%Body 15%Legs 14%
Position
Distance 89%Clinch 9%Ground 2%
This fight on UFCStats

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