Stats for UFC betting

• Significant strikes attempted and landed: Strikes with impact that a fighter either lands or attempts to land on their opponent during a bout.

• Total strikes attempted and landed: Strikes of all kinds that a fighter either lands or attempts to land on their opponent during a bout.

• Strikes absorbed: How many strikes a fighter received from their opponent in a fight.

• Striking differential: The difference between how many strikes a fighter landed on their opponent against how many they absorbed from them in a bout.

Stats are also kept for more specific striking targets, with stats for distance strikes, clinch strikes, ground strikes, head strikes, body strikes, and leg kicks.

• Takedowns attempted and landed: Instances of a fighter tackling, dragging, throwing, or tripping their opponent to the canvas during a bout (or attempting to do so).

• Takedown accuracy: The percentage of a fighter’s takedowns that were successful. This stat usually requires a minimum of 10 takedown attempts.

• Submission attempts: How many times a fighter attempted to get their opponent to submit during a bout.

• Fastest and latest KO/TKO: The quickest and latest time in a bout that a fighter has recorded a knockout (KO) or technical knockout (TKO).

• Fastest and latest submission: The quickest and latest time in a bout that a fighter has recorded a submission.

• Fastest and latest finish: The quickest and latest time in a bout that a fighter has recorded a finish.

These include career-long stats for all of the categories listed above, plus the following:

• Total fights: How many bouts a fighter has participated in.

• Total wins and losses: How many bouts a fighter has won or lost.

• Finishes: How many bouts a fighter has won that have not been settled by decision (e.g. by KO or TKO, submission, disqualification, or any other form of stoppage).

• KO or TKO wins: How many bouts a fighter has won by knockout (KO) or technical knockout (TKO).

• Submission wins: How many bouts a fighter has won by submission.

• Decision wins: How many bouts a fighter has won by decision.

• Longest win streak: The longest streak of successive bouts that a fighter has won in a row.

• Title fight wins: How many bouts a fighter has won when challenging for a UFC title.

• Total fight night bonuses: How many fight night bonuses, such as Performance of the Night or Fight of the Night, that a fighter has earned.

• Total fight time: The total cumulative time a fighter’s bouts have lasted for.

• Average fight time: The average length of time a fighter’s bouts have lasted for.

• Control time and control time percentage: The length of time and percentage of fight time that a fighter has spent in the dominant position on the ground or in the clinch.

• Knockdowns landed: How many times a fighter has knocked down their opponent in a bout.

• Knockdown average per 15 minutes: How many knockdowns the fighter has averaged per 15 minutes.

The tale of the tape is the name for the basic measurements of fighters, as recorded ahead of each fight.

The UFC’s tale of the tape is shown on screen before the fighters are announced, and includes the following stats:

• Age

• Height (measured in feet and inches)

• Weight (measured in pounds)

• Reach (the distance between fingertips with the fighter’s arms outstretched from side to side, measured in inches)

• Win-loss record

• Betting odds (normally displayed in the American odds format)

UFC stat leaders refer to the fighters that sit at the top of the standings for different statistical categories. Fight stats track everything from both an offensive and defensive perspective, and provide additional context to a fighter’s win-loss record and recent form.

The two main stat categories deal with all-time stats and active streaks. The former shows the cumulative record for a given metric across a fighter’s whole career, but the latter (such as active win streaks) provide more relevant and up-to-date data that can inform bets.