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Phil Hawes

12-6-0
37y·6' 0"·77" reach·Orthodox
4:56
Control / 15m
time on top
+1.61
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
60%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0.6
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 November 2021. Fighters at the same age and mileage lose by KO in 11.3% of fights; after a first KO it runs 17.3%.

Fired again Jan 2024

Read the research

Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 8 recorded bouts, 311 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 65%Body 26%Legs 9%
Position
Distance 76%Clinch 14%Ground 11%
And how often each lands
Head53%
Body81%
Legs85%
Distance58%
Clinch75%
Ground70%

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.

5Wins3 KO · 2 DEC
5Losses5 KO

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.

6%
Malkoun
74%
Imavov
37%
Daukaus
0%
Curtis
8%
Winn
18%
Dolidze
0%
Aliskerov
0%
Ferreira

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
R15.90100%8
R26.81115%3
R33.002

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min5.33
Strikes absorbed / min3.72
Striking accuracyof everything thrown59%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed55%
Takedowns / 15 min2.11
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land34%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed90%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.2
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together9.05
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 8 bouts6.9m

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.

57.7%
Landed at range
409 thrown over 8 bouts
Expected
against these opponents
Gap
below the cutoffs
Coverage
from real records

Too much of this record was set against opponents who had no distance history of their own yet. The expected number would mostly be the division average wearing a disguise, so it's held back.

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

LBrunno FerreiraJan 2024KO R10:00 ctrl13 str0 td
Significant strikes
13 of 27 · 48%
Total strikes
13 of 28 · 46%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:55
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 62%Body 31%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 92%Clinch 8%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LIkram AliskerovMay 2023KO R10:00 ctrl17 str0 td
Significant strikes
17 of 28 · 61%
Total strikes
17 of 28 · 61%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:10
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 24%Body 59%Legs 18%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LRoman DolidzeOct 2022KO R10:46 ctrl11 str1 td
Significant strikes
11 of 26 · 42%
Total strikes
15 of 31 · 48%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
0:46
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:09
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 45%Body 45%Legs 9%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WDeron WinnJun 2022KO R20:47 ctrl118 str1 td
Significant strikes
118 of 175 · 67%
Total strikes
126 of 191 · 66%
Takedowns
1 of 3 · 33%
Control
0:47
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 4:25
Elbows to Head At Distance
Target
Head 84%Body 14%Legs 2%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 12%Ground 13%
This fight on UFCStats
LChris CurtisNov 2021KO R10:00 ctrl48 str0 td
Significant strikes
48 of 90 · 53%
Total strikes
49 of 91 · 54%
Takedowns
0 of 3 · 0%
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:27
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 50%Body 31%Legs 19%
Position
Distance 96%Clinch 4%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WKyle DaukausMay 2021U-DEC5:34 ctrl66 str2 td
Significant strikes
66 of 101 · 65%
Total strikes
157 of 210 · 75%
Takedowns
2 of 4 · 50%
Control
5:34
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 64%Body 35%Legs 2%
Position
Distance 50%Clinch 27%Ground 23%
This fight on UFCStats
WNassourdine ImavovFeb 2021M-DEC11:06 ctrl31 str4 td
Significant strikes
31 of 54 · 57%
Total strikes
101 of 128 · 79%
Takedowns
4 of 7 · 57%
Control
11:06
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Majority decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 42%Body 23%Legs 35%
Position
Distance 74%Clinch 23%Ground 3%
This fight on UFCStats
WJacob MalkounOct 2020KO R10:01 ctrl7 str0 td
Significant strikes
7 of 11 · 64%
Total strikes
7 of 11 · 64%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:01
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 0:18
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 100%Body 0%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 71%Clinch 0%Ground 29%
This fight on UFCStats

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