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Zhang Mingyang

19-8-0
28y·6' 2"·75" reach·Orthodox
2:44
Control / 15m
time on top
+1.46
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
100%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
1.5
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.

Chin Decay

Predictive

First KO loss August 2025. Fighters at the same age and mileage lose by KO in 11.3% of fights; after a first KO it runs 17.3%.

Fired again May 2026

Read the research

Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 5 recorded bouts, 133 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 56%Body 22%Legs 23%
Position
Distance 65%Clinch 12%Ground 23%
And how often each lands
Head47%
Body76%
Legs94%
Distance53%
Clinch80%
Ground70%

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
2Losses2 KO

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%
Ribeiro
3%
Diaz
36%
Smith
18%
Walker
17%
Menifield

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
R17.18100%5
R23.081

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min7.01
Strikes absorbed / min5.55
Striking accuracyof everything thrown58%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed43%
Takedowns / 15 min0
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land0%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed75%
Sub attempts / 15 min0
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together12.56
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 5 bouts4.0m

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.

52.8%
Landed at range
163 thrown over 5 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

LAlonzo MenifieldMay 2026KO R10:43 ctrl16 str0 td
Significant strikes
16 of 37 · 43%
Total strikes
28 of 51 · 55%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:43
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:15
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 13%Body 81%Legs 6%
Position
Distance 44%Clinch 56%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LJohnny WalkerAug 2025KO R21:21 ctrl20 str0 td
Significant strikes
20 of 47 · 43%
Total strikes
28 of 59 · 47%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:21
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 2:37
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 40%Body 30%Legs 30%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 20%Ground 5%
This fight on UFCStats
WAnthony SmithApr 2025KO R11:28 ctrl63 str0 td
Significant strikes
63 of 81 · 78%
Total strikes
76 of 97 · 78%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:28
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:03
Elbows to Head On Ground
Target
Head 67%Body 10%Legs 24%
Position
Distance 56%Clinch 5%Ground 40%
This fight on UFCStats
WOzzy DiazNov 2024KO R10:05 ctrl17 str0 td
Significant strikes
17 of 34 · 50%
Total strikes
19 of 38 · 50%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:05
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:25
Elbow to Head At Distance
Target
Head 53%Body 12%Legs 35%
Position
Distance 88%Clinch 0%Ground 12%
This fight on UFCStats
WBrendson RibeiroFeb 2024KO R10:02 ctrl17 str0 td
Significant strikes
17 of 28 · 61%
Total strikes
17 of 28 · 61%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:02
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 1:41
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 76%Body 12%Legs 12%
Position
Distance 82%Clinch 0%Ground 18%
This fight on UFCStats

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