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Ronda Rousey

12-2-0
39y·5' 7"·66" reach·Orthodox
7:12
Control / 15m
time on top
+0.03
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
100%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
1.7
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 8 recorded bouts, 118 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 70%Body 20%Legs 9%
Position
Distance 33%Clinch 42%Ground 25%
And how often each lands
Head44%
Body86%
Legs92%
Distance31%
Clinch76%
Ground85%

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.

10Wins3 KO · 7 SUB
2Losses2 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.

79%
Carmouche
65%
Tate
65%
McMann
25%
Davis
36%
Zingano
12%
Correia
1%
Holm
0%
Nunes

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
R15.39100%8
R23.002
R34.001

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min4.17
Strikes absorbed / min4.14
Striking accuracyof everything thrown52%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed44%
Takedowns / 15 min6.26
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land68%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed50%
Sub attempts / 15 min4.8
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together8.31
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 8 bouts3.1m

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.

Women's divisions sit this one out for now. The baseline leans on how far striking has drifted era to era, and there isn't enough sample in the women's divisions to measure that drift. Building a baseline anyway would claim a precision we haven't earned.

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

LAmanda NunesDec 2016KO R10:00 ctrl7 str0 td
Significant strikes
7 of 14 · 50%
Total strikes
7 of 14 · 50%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 0:48
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 86%Body 14%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LHolly HolmNov 2015KO R20:04 ctrl17 str0 td
Significant strikes
17 of 65 · 26%
Total strikes
21 of 69 · 30%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:04
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 0:59
Kick to Head At Distance
Target
Head 76%Body 24%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 76%Clinch 24%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WBethe CorreiaAug 2015KO R10:04 ctrl19 str0 td
Significant strikes
19 of 32 · 59%
Total strikes
19 of 32 · 59%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:04
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 0:34
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 89%Body 11%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 26%Clinch 74%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WCat ZinganoFeb 2015SUB R10:05 ctrl0 str0 td
Significant strikes
0 of 0
Total strikes
0 of 0
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:05
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
1
Ended
Submission, R1 0:14
Armbar On Ground
This fight on UFCStats
WAlexis DavisJul 2014KO R10:04 ctrl14 str1 td
Significant strikes
14 of 16 · 88%
Total strikes
14 of 16 · 88%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
0:04
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 0:16
Punches to Head From Side Control
Target
Head 93%Body 7%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 29%Clinch 7%Ground 64%
This fight on UFCStats
WSara McMannFeb 2014KO R10:43 ctrl14 str0 td
Significant strikes
14 of 23 · 61%
Total strikes
21 of 30 · 70%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:43
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 1:06
Knee to Body In Clinch
Target
Head 29%Body 64%Legs 7%
Position
Distance 14%Clinch 86%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WMiesha TateDec 2013SUB R37:05 ctrl40 str6 td
Significant strikes
40 of 63 · 63%
Total strikes
134 of 161 · 83%
Takedowns
6 of 8 · 75%
Control
7:05
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
3
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R3 0:58
Armbar On Ground
Target
Head 60%Body 15%Legs 25%
Position
Distance 18%Clinch 43%Ground 40%
This fight on UFCStats
WLiz CarmoucheFeb 2013SUB R13:47 ctrl7 str1 td
Significant strikes
7 of 14 · 50%
Total strikes
41 of 50 · 82%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
3:47
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 4:49
Armbar On Ground
Target
Head 86%Body 14%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 14%Clinch 29%Ground 57%
This fight on UFCStats

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