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Paddy Pimblett

24-4-0
31y·5' 10"·73" reach·Orthodox
3:07
Control / 15m
time on top
+1.62
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
75%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0.4
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 July 2024, 91 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 9 recorded bouts, 484 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 62%Body 18%Legs 20%
Position
Distance 76%Clinch 8%Ground 17%
And how often each lands
Head43%
Body77%
Legs91%
Distance49%
Clinch64%
Ground74%

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.

8Wins2 KO · 4 SUB · 2 DEC
1Losses1 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.

4%
Vendramini
23%
Vargas
22%
Leavitt
4%
Gordon
59%
Ferguson
0%
Green
36%
Chandler
3%
Gaethje
71%
Denis

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
R15.97100%9
R24.8281%5
R35.1987%4
R47.001
R54.201

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min5.48
Strikes absorbed / min3.86
Striking accuracyof everything thrown52%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed42%
Takedowns / 15 min0.68
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land21%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed46%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.4
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together9.34
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 9 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.

48.8%
Landed at range
752 thrown over 9 bouts
44.0%
Expected
against these opponents
+4.8pp
Gap
above expected
91.6%
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

WBenoit Saint DenisJul 2026SUB R10:37 ctrl4 str0 td
Significant strikes
4 of 5 · 80%
Total strikes
4 of 5 · 80%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:37
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 0:52
D'Arce Choke On Ground
Target
Head 50%Body 0%Legs 50%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LJustin GaethjeJan 2026U-DEC0:48 ctrl156 str0 td
Significant strikes
156 of 311 · 50%
Total strikes
170 of 326 · 52%
Takedowns
0 of 5 · 0%
Control
0:48
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 5 rounds
Target
Head 53%Body 31%Legs 16%
Position
Distance 90%Clinch 10%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WMichael ChandlerApr 2025KO R34:41 ctrl80 str1 td
Significant strikes
80 of 143 · 56%
Total strikes
121 of 197 · 61%
Takedowns
1 of 2 · 50%
Control
4:41
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 3:07
Elbows to Head From Mount
Target
Head 76%Body 5%Legs 19%
Position
Distance 54%Clinch 5%Ground 41%
This fight on UFCStats
WKing GreenJul 2024SUB R10:00 ctrl8 str0 td
Significant strikes
8 of 13 · 62%
Total strikes
10 of 16 · 63%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 3:22
Triangle Choke From Bottom Guard
Target
Head 25%Body 0%Legs 75%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WTony FergusonDec 2023U-DEC8:53 ctrl106 str1 td
Significant strikes
106 of 165 · 64%
Total strikes
151 of 217 · 70%
Takedowns
1 of 4 · 25%
Control
8:53
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 69%Body 12%Legs 19%
Position
Distance 62%Clinch 0%Ground 38%
This fight on UFCStats
WJared GordonDec 2022U-DEC0:35 ctrl63 str0 td
Significant strikes
63 of 155 · 41%
Total strikes
97 of 194 · 50%
Takedowns
0 of 3 · 0%
Control
0:35
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 52%Body 21%Legs 27%
Position
Distance 86%Clinch 13%Ground 2%
This fight on UFCStats
WJordan LeavittJul 2022SUB R21:44 ctrl17 str1 td
Significant strikes
17 of 39 · 44%
Total strikes
30 of 53 · 57%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
1:44
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
4
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R2 2:46
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 82%Body 12%Legs 6%
Position
Distance 24%Clinch 47%Ground 29%
This fight on UFCStats
WKazula VargasMar 2022SUB R10:53 ctrl3 str1 td
Significant strikes
3 of 6 · 50%
Total strikes
5 of 8 · 63%
Takedowns
1 of 2 · 50%
Control
0:53
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 3:49
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 33%Body 0%Legs 67%
Position
Distance 67%Clinch 0%Ground 33%
This fight on UFCStats
WLuigi VendraminiSep 2021KO R10:10 ctrl47 str0 td
Significant strikes
47 of 81 · 58%
Total strikes
47 of 81 · 58%
Takedowns
0 of 2 · 0%
Control
0:10
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:25
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 62%Body 15%Legs 23%
Position
Distance 98%Clinch 2%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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