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Preston Parsons

11-6-0
31y·5' 11"·71" reach·Orthodox
5:01
Control / 15m
time on top
+0.29
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
0%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0
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 July 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 2025

Read the research

Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 6 recorded bouts, 230 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 63%Body 14%Legs 23%
Position
Distance 66%Clinch 13%Ground 20%
And how often each lands
Head42%
Body77%
Legs93%
Distance44%
Clinch72%
Ground80%

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.

2Wins2 DEC
4Losses2 KO · 2 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.

7%
Rodriguez
52%
Elder
35%
Giles
43%
Semelsberger
13%
Elliott
0%
Smith

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
R13.68100%6
R23.1084%4
R33.80103%4

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min3.54
Strikes absorbed / min3.25
Striking accuracyof everything thrown51%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed54%
Takedowns / 15 min3.46
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land36%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed71%
Sub attempts / 15 min2.3
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together6.79
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 6 bouts10.8m

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.

44.4%
Landed at range
342 thrown over 6 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

LJacobe SmithJan 2025KO R10:00 ctrl7 str0 td
Significant strikes
7 of 14 · 50%
Total strikes
8 of 15 · 53%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 1:13
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 86%Body 14%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 86%Clinch 14%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LOban ElliottJul 2024U-DEC1:58 ctrl36 str1 td
Significant strikes
36 of 93 · 39%
Total strikes
71 of 133 · 53%
Takedowns
1 of 9 · 11%
Control
1:58
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 42%Body 11%Legs 47%
Position
Distance 86%Clinch 14%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WMatthew SemelsbergerJan 2024U-DEC6:26 ctrl47 str7 td
Significant strikes
47 of 87 · 54%
Total strikes
116 of 165 · 70%
Takedowns
7 of 11 · 64%
Control
6:26
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 53%Body 19%Legs 28%
Position
Distance 53%Clinch 23%Ground 23%
This fight on UFCStats
LTrevin GilesMar 2023S-DEC5:16 ctrl42 str3 td
Significant strikes
42 of 95 · 44%
Total strikes
62 of 130 · 48%
Takedowns
3 of 11 · 27%
Control
5:16
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
3
Reversals
1
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 57%Body 14%Legs 29%
Position
Distance 81%Clinch 17%Ground 2%
This fight on UFCStats
WEvan ElderApr 2022U-DEC7:48 ctrl75 str4 td
Significant strikes
75 of 112 · 67%
Total strikes
121 of 160 · 76%
Takedowns
4 of 6 · 67%
Control
7:48
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
5
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 80%Body 12%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 44%Clinch 9%Ground 47%
This fight on UFCStats
LDaniel RodriguezJul 2021KO R10:15 ctrl23 str0 td
Significant strikes
23 of 43 · 53%
Total strikes
24 of 44 · 55%
Takedowns
0 of 4 · 0%
Control
0:15
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 3:47
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 61%Body 17%Legs 22%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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