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Melissa Mullins

7-3-0
35y·5' 7"·68" reach·Orthodox
6:31
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.48
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
50%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0
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.

Chin Decay

Predictive

First KO loss April 2024. Fighters at the same age and mileage lose by KO in 11.3% of fights; after a first KO it runs 17.3%.

Read the research

Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 5 recorded bouts, 175 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 82%Body 13%Legs 6%
Position
Distance 74%Clinch 5%Ground 22%
And how often each lands
Head45%
Body85%
Legs91%
Distance46%
Clinch89%
Ground63%

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
3Losses1 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.

55%
Alekseeva
66%
Cornolle
44%
Sygula
19%
Zhelezniakova
44%
Mesquita

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
R13.35100%5
R24.31129%4
R33.502

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min3.67
Strikes absorbed / min4.15
Striking accuracyof everything thrown49%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed53%
Takedowns / 15 min2.2
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land46%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed85%
Sub attempts / 15 min0
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together7.82
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 5 bouts9.5m

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.

Women's divisions sit this one out for now. The baseline leans on how far striking has drifted era to era, and there isn't enough sample in the women's divisions to measure that drift. Building a baseline anyway would claim a precision we haven't earned.

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

LBia MesquitaJun 2026SUB R11:27 ctrl10 str1 td
Significant strikes
10 of 25 · 40%
Total strikes
13 of 28 · 46%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
1:27
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 3:16
Armbar From Guard
Target
Head 80%Body 20%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 80%Clinch 20%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LDaria ZhelezniakovaJun 2025U-DEC2:55 ctrl64 str3 td
Significant strikes
64 of 148 · 43%
Total strikes
77 of 165 · 47%
Takedowns
3 of 6 · 50%
Control
2:55
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 67%Body 19%Legs 14%
Position
Distance 95%Clinch 5%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WKlaudia SygulaNov 2024KO R22:46 ctrl38 str2 td
Significant strikes
38 of 60 · 63%
Total strikes
54 of 85 · 64%
Takedowns
2 of 3 · 67%
Control
2:46
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 1:20
Punches to Head From Back Control
Target
Head 95%Body 3%Legs 3%
Position
Distance 24%Clinch 0%Ground 76%
This fight on UFCStats
LNora CornolleApr 2024KO R25:20 ctrl11 str1 td
Significant strikes
11 of 24 · 46%
Total strikes
13 of 28 · 46%
Takedowns
1 of 4 · 25%
Control
5:20
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 3:06
Knee to Body In Clinch
Target
Head 82%Body 18%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 82%Clinch 18%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WIrina AlekseevaOct 2023U-DEC8:15 ctrl52 str0 td
Significant strikes
52 of 95 · 55%
Total strikes
87 of 148 · 59%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
8:15
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 90%Body 10%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 81%Clinch 2%Ground 17%
This fight on UFCStats

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