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Peter Sobotta

17-7-1
39y·6' 0"·75" reach·Southpaw
4:39
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.76
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
50%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
1.6
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 10 recorded bouts, 251 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 59%Body 18%Legs 23%
Position
Distance 80%Clinch 6%Ground 14%
And how often each lands
Head30%
Body65%
Legs92%
Distance38%
Clinch48%
Ground60%

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.

4Wins1 KO · 1 SUB · 2 DEC
6Losses2 KO · 4 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.

14%
Taylor
54%
Wilks
23%
Sadollah
53%
Pawlak
45%
Kennedy
12%
Noke
69%
Dalby
14%
Saunders
7%
Edwards
5%
Oliveira

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
R12.82100%10
R21.8766%8
R31.5455%7

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min2.14
Strikes absorbed / min2.9
Striking accuracyof everything thrown40%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed58%
Takedowns / 15 min1.53
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land32%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed77%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.5
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together5.04
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 10 bouts11.7m

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.

37.5%
Landed at range
538 thrown over 10 bouts
35.4%
Expected
against these opponents
+2.2pp
Gap
above expected
65.0%
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

LAlex OliveiraJul 2020U-DEC0:47 ctrl29 str0 td
Significant strikes
29 of 67 · 43%
Total strikes
30 of 68 · 44%
Takedowns
0 of 3 · 0%
Control
0:47
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 45%Body 24%Legs 31%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LLeon EdwardsMar 2018KO R31:04 ctrl16 str1 td
Significant strikes
16 of 43 · 37%
Total strikes
57 of 90 · 63%
Takedowns
1 of 4 · 25%
Control
1:04
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 4:59
Punch to Head On Ground
Target
Head 50%Body 19%Legs 31%
Position
Distance 94%Clinch 6%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WBen SaundersMay 2017KO R21:03 ctrl46 str0 td
Significant strikes
46 of 97 · 47%
Total strikes
50 of 102 · 49%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:03
Knockdowns
3
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 2:29
Knee to Head In Clinch
Target
Head 87%Body 2%Legs 11%
Position
Distance 78%Clinch 2%Ground 20%
This fight on UFCStats
WNicolas DalbySep 2016U-DEC10:22 ctrl38 str3 td
Significant strikes
38 of 76 · 50%
Total strikes
83 of 127 · 65%
Takedowns
3 of 5 · 60%
Control
10:22
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 74%Body 13%Legs 13%
Position
Distance 55%Clinch 0%Ground 45%
This fight on UFCStats
LKyle NokeNov 2015KO R10:14 ctrl2 str0 td
Significant strikes
2 of 6 · 33%
Total strikes
2 of 6 · 33%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:14
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:01
Kick to Body At Distance
Target
Head 100%Body 0%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WSteve KennedyJun 2015SUB R11:20 ctrl6 str2 td
Significant strikes
6 of 13 · 46%
Total strikes
7 of 14 · 50%
Takedowns
2 of 2 · 100%
Control
1:20
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 2:57
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 33%Body 33%Legs 33%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WPawel PawlakMay 2014U-DEC7:58 ctrl47 str3 td
Significant strikes
47 of 101 · 47%
Total strikes
121 of 180 · 67%
Takedowns
3 of 5 · 60%
Control
7:58
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 38%Body 32%Legs 30%
Position
Distance 81%Clinch 2%Ground 17%
This fight on UFCStats
LAmir SadollahNov 2010U-DEC3:24 ctrl34 str0 td
Significant strikes
34 of 126 · 27%
Total strikes
35 of 127 · 28%
Takedowns
0 of 5 · 0%
Control
3:24
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 74%Body 12%Legs 15%
Position
Distance 91%Clinch 9%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LJames WilksJun 2010U-DEC8:07 ctrl15 str1 td
Significant strikes
15 of 57 · 26%
Total strikes
46 of 93 · 49%
Takedowns
1 of 6 · 17%
Control
8:07
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 53%Body 27%Legs 20%
Position
Distance 47%Clinch 47%Ground 7%
This fight on UFCStats
LPaul TaylorJun 2009U-DEC2:08 ctrl18 str2 td
Significant strikes
18 of 39 · 46%
Total strikes
19 of 40 · 48%
Takedowns
2 of 7 · 29%
Control
2:08
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 28%Body 22%Legs 50%
Position
Distance 94%Clinch 6%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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