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Soa Palelei

22-5-0
49y·6' 4"·81" reach·Orthodox
5:21
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.21
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
100%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 7 recorded bouts, 121 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 75%Body 15%Legs 10%
Position
Distance 31%Clinch 21%Ground 47%
And how often each lands
Head53%
Body67%
Legs92%
Distance40%
Clinch70%
Ground72%

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.

4Wins4 KO
4Losses2 KO · 1 SUB · 1 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.

43%
Sanchez
66%
Krylov
66%
Barry
72%
Potts
5%
Rosholt
16%
Harris
47%
Silva

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
R12.51100%7
R21.9076%5
R30.8032%3

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min2.47
Strikes absorbed / min2.68
Striking accuracyof everything thrown57%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed48%
Takedowns / 15 min2.2
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land47%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed66%
Sub attempts / 15 min0
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together5.15
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 7 bouts8.6m

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.

40.0%
Landed at range
95 thrown over 7 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

LAntonio SilvaAug 2015KO R22:39 ctrl19 str1 td
Significant strikes
19 of 35 · 54%
Total strikes
46 of 65 · 71%
Takedowns
1 of 3 · 33%
Control
2:39
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 0:41
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 79%Body 21%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 26%Clinch 0%Ground 74%
This fight on UFCStats
WWalt HarrisNov 2014KO R21:34 ctrl24 str1 td
Significant strikes
24 of 51 · 47%
Total strikes
43 of 77 · 56%
Takedowns
1 of 5 · 20%
Control
1:34
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 4:49
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 88%Body 4%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 79%Clinch 0%Ground 21%
This fight on UFCStats
LJared RosholtJun 2014U-DEC0:42 ctrl11 str0 td
Significant strikes
11 of 25 · 44%
Total strikes
46 of 62 · 74%
Takedowns
0 of 5 · 0%
Control
0:42
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 73%Body 9%Legs 18%
Position
Distance 36%Clinch 27%Ground 36%
This fight on UFCStats
WRuan PottsMay 2014KO R11:41 ctrl5 str1 td
Significant strikes
5 of 7 · 71%
Total strikes
19 of 21 · 90%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
1:41
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:20
Punch to Head From Mount
Target
Head 100%Body 0%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 0%Clinch 0%Ground 100%
This fight on UFCStats
WPat BarryDec 2013KO R11:25 ctrl12 str1 td
Significant strikes
12 of 14 · 86%
Total strikes
31 of 33 · 94%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
1:25
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:09
Punches to Head From Mount
Target
Head 83%Body 17%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 8%Clinch 0%Ground 92%
This fight on UFCStats
WNikita KrylovAug 2013KO R37:36 ctrl29 str4 td
Significant strikes
29 of 42 · 69%
Total strikes
107 of 128 · 84%
Takedowns
4 of 4 · 100%
Control
7:36
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 1:34
Punches to Head From Mount
Target
Head 90%Body 7%Legs 3%
Position
Distance 14%Clinch 24%Ground 62%
This fight on UFCStats
LEddie SanchezDec 2007KO R35:47 ctrl21 str1 td
Significant strikes
21 of 37 · 57%
Total strikes
27 of 43 · 63%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
5:47
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 3:24
Punches to Head In Clinch
Target
Head 29%Body 38%Legs 33%
Position
Distance 24%Clinch 76%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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