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Sam Hoger

10-4-0
46y·6' 2"·Orthodox
2:14
Control / 15m
time on top
-1.18
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
50%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
1.4
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 5 recorded bouts, 72 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 63%Body 26%Legs 11%
Position
Distance 72%Clinch 11%Ground 17%
And how often each lands
Head19%
Body45%
Legs62%
Distance22%
Clinch36%
Ground38%

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.

2Wins1 SUB · 1 DEC
3Losses3 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.

18%
Southworth
14%
Bonnar
67%
Newton
0%
Evans
3%
Machida

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
R11.04100%5
R21.76170%5
R30.3534%4

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min1.07
Strikes absorbed / min2.25
Striking accuracyof everything thrown25%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed57%
Takedowns / 15 min1.12
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land38%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed29%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.3
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together3.32
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 5 bouts13.4m

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.

22.2%
Landed at range
234 thrown over 5 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

LLyoto MachidaFeb 2007U-DEC0:25 ctrl11 str1 td
Significant strikes
11 of 47 · 23%
Total strikes
40 of 78 · 51%
Takedowns
1 of 7 · 14%
Control
0:25
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 55%Body 27%Legs 18%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LRashad EvansApr 2006S-DEC0:03 ctrl18 str0 td
Significant strikes
18 of 72 · 25%
Total strikes
59 of 113 · 52%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:03
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 44%Body 50%Legs 6%
Position
Distance 78%Clinch 22%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WJeff NewtonNov 2005SUB R24:45 ctrl10 str3 td
Significant strikes
10 of 21 · 48%
Total strikes
35 of 48 · 73%
Takedowns
3 of 3 · 100%
Control
4:45
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R2 2:05
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 100%Body 0%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 0%Clinch 0%Ground 100%
This fight on UFCStats
LStephan BonnarAug 2005U-DEC2:07 ctrl11 str1 td
Significant strikes
11 of 29 · 38%
Total strikes
52 of 71 · 73%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
2:07
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 82%Body 18%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 55%Clinch 27%Ground 18%
This fight on UFCStats
WBobby SouthworthApr 2005U-DEC2:40 ctrl22 str0 td
Significant strikes
22 of 119 · 18%
Total strikes
71 of 171 · 42%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
2:40
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 55%Body 23%Legs 23%
Position
Distance 95%Clinch 5%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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