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Mike van Arsdale

8-5-0
61y·6' 2"·Switch
4:42
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.39
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
67%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 4 recorded bouts, 70 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 53%Body 40%Legs 7%
Position
Distance 24%Clinch 7%Ground 69%
And how often each lands
Head27%
Body90%
Legs63%
Distance18%
Clinch36%
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.

3Wins1 KO · 1 SUB · 1 DEC
2Losses2 SUB

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.

Pardo
50%
Marsh
11%
Couture
10%
Sobral

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
R12.05100%4
R20.702
R32.542

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min1.52
Strikes absorbed / min1.91
Striking accuracyof everything thrown41%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed41%
Takedowns / 15 min1.06
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land14%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed37%
Sub attempts / 15 min0
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together3.43
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 4 bouts9.8m

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.

18.5%
Landed at range
92 thrown over 4 bouts
Expected
against these opponents
Gap
below the cutoffs
Coverage
from real records

It takes 5 bouts before this comparison says anything. There are 4 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

LRenato SobralFeb 2006SUB R10:14 ctrl1 str0 td
Significant strikes
1 of 4 · 25%
Total strikes
3 of 6 · 50%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:14
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 2:21
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 100%Body 0%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LRandy CoutureAug 2005SUB R31:09 ctrl8 str1 td
Significant strikes
8 of 40 · 20%
Total strikes
9 of 41 · 22%
Takedowns
1 of 9 · 11%
Control
1:09
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R3 0:52
Anaconda Choke From Front Headlock
Target
Head 88%Body 0%Legs 13%
Position
Distance 63%Clinch 38%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WJohn MarshApr 2005U-DEC7:28 ctrl34 str1 td
Significant strikes
34 of 60 · 57%
Total strikes
85 of 117 · 73%
Takedowns
1 of 4 · 25%
Control
7:28
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 41%Body 59%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 6%Clinch 3%Ground 91%
This fight on UFCStats
WJoe PardoMay 1998SUB R1 ctrl27 str1 td
Significant strikes
27 of 72 · 38%
Total strikes
48 of 94 · 51%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 11:01
Keylock From Side Control
Target
Head 56%Body 30%Legs 15%
Position
Distance 33%Clinch 4%Ground 63%
This fight on UFCStats

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