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Yaotzin Meza

21-11-0 (1 NC)
45y·5' 9"·71" reach·Orthodox
4:16
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.19
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
50%
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 45%Body 20%Legs 35%
Position
Distance 83%Clinch 9%Ground 8%
And how often each lands
Head27%
Body62%
Legs78%
Distance38%
Clinch69%
Ground83%

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
4Losses1 KO · 3 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.

0%
Mendes
72%
Albert
23%
Camus
9%
Pettis
68%
Stasiak
10%
Sicilia
14%
Allen

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
R11.35100%7
R21.98147%6
R30.9268%5

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min1.43
Strikes absorbed / min1.62
Striking accuracyof everything thrown41%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed64%
Takedowns / 15 min1.06
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land20%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed18%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.4
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together3.05
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 7 bouts12.1m

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.

37.6%
Landed at range
266 thrown over 7 bouts
34.9%
Expected
against these opponents
+2.7pp
Gap
above expected
65.7%
Coverage
from real records
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

LArnold AllenFeb 2016U-DEC2:02 ctrl25 str0 td
Significant strikes
25 of 61 · 41%
Total strikes
51 of 93 · 55%
Takedowns
0 of 8 · 0%
Control
2:02
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 40%Body 24%Legs 36%
Position
Distance 84%Clinch 16%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LSam SiciliaJul 2015U-DEC1:30 ctrl18 str1 td
Significant strikes
18 of 37 · 49%
Total strikes
39 of 60 · 65%
Takedowns
1 of 9 · 11%
Control
1:30
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 56%Body 17%Legs 28%
Position
Distance 89%Clinch 11%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WDamian StasiakApr 2015U-DEC10:12 ctrl17 str2 td
Significant strikes
17 of 25 · 68%
Total strikes
70 of 82 · 85%
Takedowns
2 of 2 · 100%
Control
10:12
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
3
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 24%Body 6%Legs 71%
Position
Distance 53%Clinch 6%Ground 41%
This fight on UFCStats
LSergio PettisJun 2014U-DEC1:20 ctrl43 str1 td
Significant strikes
43 of 114 · 38%
Total strikes
46 of 121 · 38%
Takedowns
1 of 6 · 17%
Control
1:20
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 63%Body 14%Legs 23%
Position
Distance 95%Clinch 0%Ground 5%
This fight on UFCStats
NCChico CamusJan 2014NC R33:23 ctrl12 str1 td
Significant strikes
12 of 35 · 34%
Total strikes
62 of 96 · 65%
Takedowns
1 of 3 · 33%
Control
3:23
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
2
Ended
Overturned, R3 5:00
Failed Drug Test by Camus Kelvin Caldwell 27 - 30. Sal D'amato 28 - 29. Gabriel Sabaitis 28 - 29.
Target
Head 17%Body 58%Legs 25%
Position
Distance 67%Clinch 33%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WJohn AlbertJul 2013SUB R25:39 ctrl4 str1 td
Significant strikes
4 of 7 · 57%
Total strikes
29 of 33 · 88%
Takedowns
1 of 2 · 50%
Control
5:39
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
4
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R2 2:49
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 50%Body 0%Legs 50%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 0%Ground 25%
This fight on UFCStats
LChad MendesDec 2012KO R10:00 ctrl2 str0 td
Significant strikes
2 of 15 · 13%
Total strikes
2 of 15 · 13%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 1:55
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 0%Body 50%Legs 50%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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