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Michael Graves

6-0-1
35y·5' 10"·71" reach·Orthodox
8:36
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.22
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 3 recorded bouts, 47 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 77%Body 15%Legs 9%
Position
Distance 36%Clinch 21%Ground 43%
And how often each lands
Head52%
Body64%
Legs57%
Distance43%
Clinch63%
Ground65%

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.

60%
Luque
73%
Brown
47%
Velickovic

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
R11.67100%3
R21.5291%3
R30.302

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min1.25
Strikes absorbed / min1.47
Striking accuracyof everything thrown54%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed58%
Takedowns / 15 min4.8
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land52%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed66%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.4
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together2.72
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 3 bouts12.5m

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.

42.5%
Landed at range
40 thrown over 3 bouts
Expected
against these opponents
Gap
below the cutoffs
Coverage
from real records

It takes 5 bouts before this comparison says anything. There are 3 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

DBojan VelickovicJul 2016M-DEC7:04 ctrl9 str3 td
Significant strikes
9 of 20 · 45%
Total strikes
27 of 40 · 68%
Takedowns
3 of 6 · 50%
Control
7:04
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Majority decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 44%Body 33%Legs 22%
Position
Distance 56%Clinch 11%Ground 33%
This fight on UFCStats
WRandy BrownApr 2016SUB R25:28 ctrl11 str2 td
Significant strikes
11 of 22 · 50%
Total strikes
26 of 40 · 65%
Takedowns
2 of 7 · 29%
Control
5:28
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R2 2:31
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 91%Body 9%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 0%Clinch 18%Ground 82%
This fight on UFCStats
WVicente LuqueJul 2015U-DEC8:58 ctrl27 str7 td
Significant strikes
27 of 45 · 60%
Total strikes
53 of 72 · 74%
Takedowns
7 of 10 · 70%
Control
8:58
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 81%Body 11%Legs 7%
Position
Distance 44%Clinch 26%Ground 30%
This fight on UFCStats

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