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Matthew Lopez

10-4-0
39y·5' 7"·69" reach·Southpaw
3:48
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.60
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
50%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 6 recorded bouts, 212 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 67%Body 23%Legs 11%
Position
Distance 71%Clinch 3%Ground 26%
And how often each lands
Head44%
Body70%
Legs92%
Distance45%
Clinch64%
Ground77%

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.

2Wins1 KO · 1 DEC
4Losses2 KO · 1 SUB · 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.

15%
Yahya
62%
Gagnon
43%
Eduardo
4%
Assuncao
36%
Perez
6%
Katona

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
R14.25100%6
R22.2854%5
R32.4157%4

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min3.13
Strikes absorbed / min3.73
Striking accuracyof everything thrown50%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed55%
Takedowns / 15 min3.32
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land60%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed71%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.3
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together6.86
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 6 bouts11.3m

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.

44.9%
Landed at range
334 thrown over 6 bouts
30.5%
Expected
against these opponents
+14.4pp
Gap
above expected
72.8%
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

LBrad KatonaDec 2018U-DEC0:55 ctrl69 str4 td
Significant strikes
69 of 142 · 49%
Total strikes
79 of 155 · 51%
Takedowns
4 of 6 · 67%
Control
0:55
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 59%Body 25%Legs 16%
Position
Distance 94%Clinch 4%Ground 1%
This fight on UFCStats
LAlejandro PerezApr 2018KO R23:07 ctrl22 str3 td
Significant strikes
22 of 36 · 61%
Total strikes
32 of 47 · 68%
Takedowns
3 of 7 · 43%
Control
3:07
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 3:42
Punches to Head In Clinch
Target
Head 64%Body 32%Legs 5%
Position
Distance 86%Clinch 5%Ground 9%
This fight on UFCStats
LRaphael AssuncaoNov 2017KO R30:28 ctrl34 str1 td
Significant strikes
34 of 93 · 37%
Total strikes
36 of 95 · 38%
Takedowns
1 of 4 · 25%
Control
0:28
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 1:50
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 47%Body 35%Legs 18%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WJohnny EduardoJun 2017KO R11:16 ctrl43 str1 td
Significant strikes
43 of 57 · 75%
Total strikes
59 of 73 · 81%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
1:16
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:57
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 100%Body 0%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 9%Clinch 0%Ground 91%
This fight on UFCStats
WMitch GagnonDec 2016U-DEC9:17 ctrl30 str5 td
Significant strikes
30 of 54 · 56%
Total strikes
53 of 78 · 68%
Takedowns
5 of 6 · 83%
Control
9:17
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 67%Body 30%Legs 3%
Position
Distance 50%Clinch 10%Ground 40%
This fight on UFCStats
LRani YahyaJul 2016SUB R32:07 ctrl14 str1 td
Significant strikes
14 of 34 · 41%
Total strikes
26 of 46 · 57%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
2:07
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
1
Ended
Submission, R3 4:19
Arm Triangle From Side Control
Target
Head 50%Body 21%Legs 29%
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.