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Sam Hughes

11-7-0
34y·5' 5"·64" reach·Orthodox
4:03
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.28
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
33%
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.

The Odometer

Backwards

Crossed into the heaviest third of head strikes eaten for their age in April 2022, 90 head strikes before that night. Never-yet-stopped fighters carrying that kind of mileage took a first KO in 11.0% of fights; the lightest third ran 15.6%.

Read the research

Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 12 recorded bouts, 710 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 67%Body 17%Legs 16%
Position
Distance 76%Clinch 11%Ground 13%
And how often each lands
Head41%
Body65%
Legs77%
Distance43%
Clinch79%
Ground73%

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.

6Wins1 KO · 1 SUB · 4 DEC
6Losses1 KO · 5 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.

17%
Pennington
44%
Lookboonmee
2%
Pinheiro
23%
Nunes
86%
Reed
3%
Rodriguez
47%
Amorim
2%
Jauregui
15%
Dudakova
29%
Luciano
79%
Bannon
2%
Rodriguez

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
R13.97100%12
R24.23107%11
R35.15130%10

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min4.41
Strikes absorbed / min4.69
Striking accuracyof everything thrown47%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed58%
Takedowns / 15 min1.12
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land29%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed63%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.2
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together9.1
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 12 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.

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

LPiera RodriguezMar 2026U-DEC0:22 ctrl77 str0 td
Significant strikes
77 of 144 · 53%
Total strikes
91 of 160 · 57%
Takedowns
0 of 7 · 0%
Control
0:22
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 61%Body 17%Legs 22%
Position
Distance 84%Clinch 16%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WShauna BannonSep 2025SUB R25:29 ctrl21 str2 td
Significant strikes
21 of 46 · 46%
Total strikes
55 of 84 · 65%
Takedowns
2 of 3 · 67%
Control
5:29
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R2 1:58
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 90%Body 10%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 19%Clinch 14%Ground 67%
This fight on UFCStats
WStephanie LucianoMar 2025S-DEC4:21 ctrl76 str3 td
Significant strikes
76 of 152 · 50%
Total strikes
146 of 233 · 63%
Takedowns
3 of 8 · 38%
Control
4:21
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 57%Body 20%Legs 24%
Position
Distance 91%Clinch 4%Ground 5%
This fight on UFCStats
WViktoriia DudakovaAug 2024S-DEC2:14 ctrl97 str0 td
Significant strikes
97 of 193 · 50%
Total strikes
139 of 240 · 58%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
2:14
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 67%Body 25%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 89%Clinch 6%Ground 5%
This fight on UFCStats
LYazmin JaureguiFeb 2024U-DEC0:17 ctrl83 str0 td
Significant strikes
83 of 197 · 42%
Total strikes
88 of 206 · 43%
Takedowns
0 of 6 · 0%
Control
0:17
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 48%Body 20%Legs 31%
Position
Distance 96%Clinch 4%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WJaqueline AmorimApr 2023U-DEC7:02 ctrl46 str1 td
Significant strikes
46 of 104 · 44%
Total strikes
107 of 176 · 61%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
7:02
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 98%Body 2%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 41%Clinch 13%Ground 46%
This fight on UFCStats
LPiera RodriguezOct 2022U-DEC0:30 ctrl69 str0 td
Significant strikes
69 of 155 · 45%
Total strikes
78 of 164 · 48%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:30
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 80%Body 16%Legs 4%
Position
Distance 80%Clinch 20%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WElise ReedMay 2022KO R311:59 ctrl43 str4 td
Significant strikes
43 of 65 · 66%
Total strikes
130 of 161 · 81%
Takedowns
4 of 7 · 57%
Control
11:59
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 3:52
Elbows to Head From Mount
Target
Head 77%Body 14%Legs 9%
Position
Distance 16%Clinch 14%Ground 70%
This fight on UFCStats
WIstela NunesApr 2022M-DEC3:26 ctrl76 str2 td
Significant strikes
76 of 182 · 42%
Total strikes
151 of 257 · 59%
Takedowns
2 of 5 · 40%
Control
3:26
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Majority decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 88%Body 12%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 78%Clinch 5%Ground 17%
This fight on UFCStats
LLuana PinheiroNov 2021U-DEC0:19 ctrl53 str0 td
Significant strikes
53 of 130 · 41%
Total strikes
65 of 147 · 44%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:19
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 43%Body 11%Legs 45%
Position
Distance 94%Clinch 6%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LLoma LookboonmeeMay 2021U-DEC6:34 ctrl49 str0 td
Significant strikes
49 of 73 · 67%
Total strikes
98 of 126 · 78%
Takedowns
0 of 2 · 0%
Control
6:34
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 65%Body 31%Legs 4%
Position
Distance 61%Clinch 35%Ground 4%
This fight on UFCStats
LTecia PenningtonDec 2020DOC R10:51 ctrl20 str0 td
Significant strikes
20 of 53 · 38%
Total strikes
26 of 59 · 44%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:51
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Doctor's stoppage, R1 5:00
Eye Injury
Target
Head 45%Body 10%Legs 45%
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.