From PPV buys to social media tendencies, 2024 was one other excellent yr for MMA promotions all over the world and particularly, the Final Preventing Championship.
Nevertheless, that isn’t to say that the UFC dominates the game throughout the board; in reality, a brand new statistical examine has now revealed the place the promotion curiously lags behind a number of of its rivals.
MMA examine reveals the UFC ranks final for share finishes and extra
If you happen to’re trying to bolster your MMA data in 2025, we’d extremely advocate following knowledge scientist Nate Latshaw on social media.
The Philadelphia-based researcher is an knowledgeable in sports activities analytics and earlier this week, revealed the results of his year-long examine into the brutal sport that all of us adore – with a number of fascinating (and stunning) outcomes from throughout the MMA world.
Most notably, out of the ten main MMA promotions worldwide (Cage Warriors, KSW, Courageous CF, RIZIN, LFA, CFFC, PFL, ONE, Oktagon MMA, and UFC), the Final Preventing Championship would rank final by way of fight-ending finishes.
In accordance with Latshaw’s knowledge, solely 44.8% of UFC fights in 2024 ended by way of both a KO/TKKO or submission, the bottom of any of the opposite MMA promotions – in comparison with 65.9% in Cage Warriors (1st), 63% in KSW (2nd), 61.8% in RIZIN (4th), and 53% within the PFL (8th).
It was the identical story throughout extra particular classes together with knockouts, submissions, and first-round finishes; the place the UFC ranked final for KOs (28.7%), second-last for submissions (16.2%), and final once more for first-round finishes (20.3%).
Latshaw additionally expanded upon how knockout charges have modified throughout the final 10 years by weight class – dropping from 33% in 2015 throughout all divisions (female and male) right down to 29% by 2024.
Granted, there might have been a good few extra KO/TKOs this previous calendar yr had the UFC not determined to introduce their new glove design within the Summer season.
Knockouts dropped considerably after the brand new gloves’ introduction, a lot in order that Dana White confirmed that the promotion could be returning to the old design after UFC 309 in November.
If you end up with a spare couple of minutes earlier than the primary UFC occasion of 2025, Latshaw’s fascinating X thread is properly price a read-through in full.
1/ 2024 MMA Stats Yr in Overview
This thread options:
1⃣ Comparisons of 10 #MMA promotions in 2024
2⃣ Developments over the past decade within the #UFC
3⃣ Hyperlinks to my MMA superior analytics work
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— Nate Latshaw (@NateLatshaw) January 5, 2025
A fast statistical recap of the UFC in 2024
2024 was yet one more excellent yr for the Final Preventing Championship, with over 512 fights placed on throughout 42 distinctive exhibits (each PPV and non-PPV) for a grand complete of 101 hours of combat time.
The occasion that noticed essentially the most knockouts was UFC on ESPN 54: Blanchfield vs Fiorot in March – that card was eight KO/TKO’s being scored, 5 on the prelims and three extra on the primary card.
174 post-fight bonuses had been handed out: with fighters incomes roughly $9.95 million from both Battle of the Evening or Efficiency of the Evening checks.
- UFC 311: Arman Tsarukyan strangely suggests he’s not ‘100% invested in MMA’ days out from title fight
One of the best night time to get a post-fight bonus was, after all, UFC 300, which featured 4 $300K checks being given out – though Max Holloway would in the end depart with two of them.
Underdogs additionally had a stable turnout, with 146 wins to 367 losses in opposition to the betting favorites; essentially the most of which got here at UFC 267: Strickland vs Du Plessis with seven – might we see an analogous stat at UFC 312: Du Plessis vs Strickland 2 in February?
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