UFC on Fox 8 Stat Attack

By On Jul 25, 2013

UFC on Fox 8 Tweet-Sized Stats: It’s amazing what you can do in 140 characters or less.

Superlatives

Hardest Hitters by Total Knockdowns Scored: Guillard-12, Edwards & Ellenberger-8, Lawler-7.

Hardest Hitters by Knockdown Rate: Kedzie with a 17% knockdown rate. Guillard-13%, Lawler-9%, Ellenberger-7%.

Worst “Chins” measured by Rate of Knockdowns Received: Salas-10%, Castillo-7%, Kedzie-6%. Anomaly is Meza-100%=1 punch KD.

Highest Significant Strike Accuracy: Carmouche-59%, MacDonald-54%, Johnson, Danzig & Herman-50%.

Most Likely to Attempt Takedowns: Salas averages 5.9 attempts per 5-minute round. Chiesa-3.9, Smith-3.2, Castillo-2.6.

Best Takedown Defense (>10 atts): Ellenberger-93%, MacDonald-89%, Masvidal-84%.

Longest Reach: MacDonald-76.5 inches.

Shortest Reach: Kedzie-64.5 inches.

Most Accurate Power Head Strikers: Moraga-43%, Carmouche-38%, Voelker-37%, MacDonald & Danzig-36%.

Oldest Fighter: Edwards-36 years.

Youngest Fighter: Andrade-21 years.

Best Head Striking Defense: Edwards, who defends >84% of head strikes by opponents.

Worst Head Striking Defense: Herman, who only defends 59% of standing head strikes.

Highest Paced Fighter: Voelker, who attempts on average 12.2 significant strikes per minute.

Fun Facts

UFC on FOX 8 is the first UFC card to have two women’s bouts. Liz Carmouche faces Jessica Andrade & Julie Kedzie fights Germaine de Randamie.

Demetrious Johnson is defending the UFC Flyweight Title for only the second time. No other fighter has ever held this belt.

Rory MacDonald turned 24 years old on Monday. He is the second youngest fighter on the card.

Rory MacDonald & Jake Ellenberger have identical takedown success rates of 58%. MacDonald attempts TDs at a slightly higher pace.

Ed Herman only spends 18% of his time in the Octagon standing and trading.

Aaron Riley has only spent 14% of his fight time on the ground, but was in control for 84% of those minutes

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