Max Holloway had never been knocked out in 29 UFC fights. Ilia Topuria did it in three rounds. Volkanovski had been finished once in 15. Oliveira four times in 34. We pulled every strike Topuria has thrown in the Octagon — the precision-power combo behind his 9-0 record is rarer than the headline numbers suggest.
Read Full AnalysisMax Holloway had never been knocked out in 29 UFC fights. Ilia Topuria did it in three rounds. Volkanovski had been finished once in 15. Oliveira four times in 34. We pulled every strike Topuria has thrown in the Octagon — the precision-power combo behind his 9-0 record is rarer than the headline numbers suggest.
Thirteen seconds against Aldo. Two divisions in two years. Then nine minutes against Khabib, a broken tibia against Poirier, and almost five years of silence. We pulled every strike of Conor McGregor's UFC career — the peak was as real as the decline, and the number that captures both is a 17-strike swing nobody can talk their way out of.
Jon Jones has 24 UFC fights and zero knockdowns absorbed. Thomas Almeida has 10 and eight. We built the Chin Index to measure defensive durability — and found that the metric predicts who gets finished by strikes with a 0.59 correlation.
Five UFC fights, four Performance of the Night bonuses, four of five wins inside Round 1. The data behind Quillan Salkilld's first 15 months in the lightweight division.
Demetrious Johnson defended the UFC flyweight title 11 times in five years. He was the shortest male champion in UFC history — and the reason he won wasn't size disadvantage. We dissected every round of the reign.
Marlon Vera lost the strike count 159–271 against Rob Font and won 30-27 on every card. We analyzed every UFC judge-round since 2015 — 24,528 of them — and the data shows the 10-point system has degraded into a binary toggle.
