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Steven Asplund

8-2-0
28y·6' 5"·78" reach·Orthodox
1:56
Control / 15m
time on top
+2.63
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
67%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
1
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 August 2026, 109 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%.

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Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 3 recorded bouts, 297 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 85%Body 6%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 85%Clinch 8%Ground 7%
And how often each lands
Head50%
Body76%
Legs96%
Distance50%
Clinch73%
Ground92%

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.

3Wins2 KO · 1 DEC
1Losses1 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.

1%
Sharaf
1%
Petrino
32%
Pat

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
R18.60100%3
R29.06105%3
R34.302

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min7.88
Strikes absorbed / min5.25
Striking accuracyof everything thrown53%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed48%
Takedowns / 15 min0
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land0%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed100%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.4
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together13.13
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 3 bouts12.9m

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.

50.0%
Landed at range
502 thrown over 3 bouts
Expected
against these opponents
Gap
below the cutoffs
Coverage
from real records

It takes 5 bouts before this comparison says anything. There are 3 here, so it's only showing what they actually landed.

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

WGuilherme PatAug 2026U-DEC4:44 ctrl66 str0 td
Significant strikes
66 of 109 · 61%
Total strikes
134 of 180 · 74%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
4:44
Knockdowns
2
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 77%Body 14%Legs 9%
Position
Distance 41%Clinch 29%Ground 30%
This fight on UFCStats
LVitor PetrinoMar 2026U-DEC0:12 ctrl61 str0 td
Significant strikes
61 of 158 · 39%
Total strikes
73 of 172 · 42%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:12
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 79%Body 7%Legs 15%
Position
Distance 95%Clinch 2%Ground 3%
This fight on UFCStats
WSean SharafDec 2025KO R20:03 ctrl170 str0 td
Significant strikes
170 of 292 · 58%
Total strikes
172 of 294 · 59%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:03
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 3:49
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 91%Body 4%Legs 6%
Position
Distance 98%Clinch 2%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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