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Light Heavyweights Rule UFC Pay Scale
Purse information from UFC 132 once again highlighted the disparity in pay between guys like Tito Ortiz and Wanderlei Silva compared to bantamweight headliners Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber. Some of the disparity results from Ortiz and Silva being PPV stars. Some of it is a product of Cruz and...
FightMetric to Be the UFC's Official Statistics Provider
From the FightMetric blog: FightMetric® is now the official statistics provider of the Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®), supplying the world's first comprehensive mixed martial arts (MMA) statistics and analysis system to the largest MMA organization in the world. The inclusion of...
Anderson Silva Does Whatever a Spider Can
If Anderson Silva's deconstruction of Forrest Griffin didn't impress you enough, FightMetric offers up some pretty impressive stats: * Silva landed 13 of 25 total strikes, for an accuracy percentage of 52%. Silva has still never had a fight in which he landed less than half his attempted...
Fighting by Numbers: Bloody Elbow Exclusive Interview With Rami Genauer of FightMetric
In 1977, Bill James published the first of his Baseball Abstracts. The newsletter sparked the beginning of an objective revolution in baseball that continues to this day thirty years later. MMA, up until now, has lacked any resemblance of statistics outside of win/loss, method, and round. That...
Finishing Rates by Country in 2008
The UFC and WEC represent the American portion, while Dream and Sengoku make up the Japanese side. We're looking at some pretty small samples (262 American fights, 107 Japanese fights) so there isn't too much significance to the numbers. I find it interesting that fights are finished at an...
A Cursory Look at Referee Statistics and Another Call for Volunteers
If you remember this post, I called for volunteers to help me with a project involving referees and judges. I've put the judge project on hold for now, but we're still going strong on the ref side. Here's some preliminary work I've done, and hope to expand on with more data: Sorry for the...
Finishing Rates by Round and a Call for Volunteers
In my piece defending the five round title fight, I argued against Rami Genaur's posit that additional rounds would lead to more decisions. Rami realized his error in logic prior to reading my post, but he did bring up an idea that intuitively felt right. From his e-mail to Fightlinker: Unless...
On Submissions, Part II (Dave Meltzer Edition)
In his piece about the growing concern over MMA refereeing, Dave Meltzer slipped this paragraph in: Fighters often feel pressure trying to please the live crowd, wanting to be perceived as having quality fights and become more marketable in a community that is controlled by a zealous Internet...
On Submissions in MMA
Nate highlighted Josh Gross's piece about the lack of submissions in the past few UFC cards and whether or not it's becoming a trend in MMA. Being a big follower of sabermetrics and sabermetric thought, it irks me when people make blanket statements based strictly off personal observation. I...
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