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Stephan Bonnar

15-9-0
49y·6' 4"·79" reach·Orthodox
5:09
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.25
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
50%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0.4
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 15 recorded bouts, 459 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 71%Body 19%Legs 10%
Position
Distance 43%Clinch 32%Ground 25%
And how often each lands
Head34%
Body71%
Legs67%
Distance27%
Clinch60%
Ground61%

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.

8Wins2 KO · 2 SUB · 4 DEC
8Losses3 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.

2%
Griffin
65%
Hoger
90%
Irvin
26%
Jardine
0%
Evans
0%
Griffin
49%
Nickels
49%
Schafer
15%
Jones
18%
Coleman
25%
Soszynski
40%
Soszynski
80%
Pokrajac
71%
Kingsbury
64%
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
R12.32100%15
R23.38145%12
R32.2697%10

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min2.76
Strikes absorbed / min3.01
Striking accuracyof everything thrown38%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed52%
Takedowns / 15 min1.32
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land40%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed60%
Sub attempts / 15 min1
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together5.77
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 15 bouts11.6m

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.

27.4%
Landed at range
725 thrown over 15 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

LAnderson SilvaOct 2012KO R12:59 ctrl12 str0 td
Significant strikes
12 of 43 · 28%
Total strikes
28 of 59 · 47%
Takedowns
0 of 3 · 0%
Control
2:59
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:40
Knee to Body At Distance
Target
Head 75%Body 17%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 50%Clinch 50%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WKyle KingsburyNov 2011U-DEC10:38 ctrl36 str4 td
Significant strikes
36 of 74 · 49%
Total strikes
133 of 183 · 73%
Takedowns
4 of 6 · 67%
Control
10:38
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 50%Body 31%Legs 19%
Position
Distance 33%Clinch 42%Ground 25%
This fight on UFCStats
WIgor PokrajacDec 2010U-DEC11:57 ctrl44 str3 td
Significant strikes
44 of 80 · 55%
Total strikes
147 of 199 · 74%
Takedowns
3 of 5 · 60%
Control
11:57
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 43%Body 52%Legs 5%
Position
Distance 23%Clinch 36%Ground 41%
This fight on UFCStats
WKrzysztof SoszynskiJul 2010KO R23:17 ctrl48 str2 td
Significant strikes
48 of 112 · 43%
Total strikes
82 of 151 · 54%
Takedowns
2 of 4 · 50%
Control
3:17
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 3:08
Punches to Head From Back Control
Target
Head 81%Body 10%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 31%Clinch 46%Ground 23%
This fight on UFCStats
LKrzysztof SoszynskiFeb 2010DOC R32:45 ctrl36 str2 td
Significant strikes
36 of 117 · 31%
Total strikes
56 of 138 · 41%
Takedowns
2 of 5 · 40%
Control
2:45
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Doctor's stoppage, R3 1:04
Facial Cut
Target
Head 53%Body 28%Legs 19%
Position
Distance 53%Clinch 47%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LMark ColemanJul 2009U-DEC2:40 ctrl26 str0 td
Significant strikes
26 of 60 · 43%
Total strikes
68 of 103 · 66%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
2:40
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
3
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 88%Body 12%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 8%Clinch 15%Ground 77%
This fight on UFCStats
LJon JonesJan 2009U-DEC2:11 ctrl37 str0 td
Significant strikes
37 of 76 · 49%
Total strikes
74 of 114 · 65%
Takedowns
0 of 2 · 0%
Control
2:11
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 41%Body 27%Legs 32%
Position
Distance 22%Clinch 76%Ground 3%
This fight on UFCStats
WEric SchaferOct 2007KO R23:50 ctrl30 str0 td
Significant strikes
30 of 54 · 56%
Total strikes
76 of 109 · 70%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
3:50
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 2:47
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 87%Body 13%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 7%Clinch 13%Ground 80%
This fight on UFCStats
WMike NickelsJul 2007SUB R11:05 ctrl2 str0 td
Significant strikes
2 of 5 · 40%
Total strikes
2 of 5 · 40%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:05
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 2:14
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 50%Body 0%Legs 50%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LForrest GriffinAug 2006U-DEC0:00 ctrl41 str0 td
Significant strikes
41 of 159 · 26%
Total strikes
44 of 162 · 27%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 78%Body 10%Legs 12%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LRashad EvansJun 2006M-DEC0:04 ctrl12 str0 td
Significant strikes
12 of 36 · 33%
Total strikes
52 of 78 · 67%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:04
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
Majority decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 58%Body 33%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 58%Clinch 25%Ground 17%
This fight on UFCStats
WKeith JardineApr 2006U-DEC3:53 ctrl33 str1 td
Significant strikes
33 of 93 · 35%
Total strikes
52 of 113 · 46%
Takedowns
1 of 6 · 17%
Control
3:53
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 61%Body 30%Legs 9%
Position
Distance 73%Clinch 27%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WJames IrvinJan 2006SUB R14:03 ctrl2 str2 td
Significant strikes
2 of 5 · 40%
Total strikes
22 of 25 · 88%
Takedowns
2 of 3 · 67%
Control
4:03
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 4:30
Kimura From Side Control
Target
Head 100%Body 0%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 0%Clinch 0%Ground 100%
This fight on UFCStats
WSam HogerAug 2005U-DEC9:47 ctrl43 str3 td
Significant strikes
43 of 91 · 47%
Total strikes
105 of 162 · 65%
Takedowns
3 of 7 · 43%
Control
9:47
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 91%Body 5%Legs 5%
Position
Distance 19%Clinch 21%Ground 60%
This fight on UFCStats
LForrest GriffinApr 2005U-DEC0:20 ctrl57 str0 td
Significant strikes
57 of 150 · 38%
Total strikes
64 of 157 · 41%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:20
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 96%Body 2%Legs 2%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 25%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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