Jose Aldo rated better lightweight striker than Conor McGregor in EA’s UFC 2

EA Sports is gearing up for the release of their new UFC game. And as the day closes in, they’re starting to leak more and more info on just what fans can expect from the game. The latest? Striking stats. Video games do not represent reality…

EA Sports is gearing up for the release of their new UFC game. And as the day closes in, they’re starting to leak more and more info on just what fans can expect from the game. The latest? Striking stats.

Video games do not represent reality. Even reality driven ones, like sports games. That’s a mantra I have to repeat to myself whenever I play them, because the moment I start thinking about these things I go just a little bit crazy. With EA Sports’ new UFC game coming up just around the corner (March 15th), the developer has started giving fans a peak at more and more of the design they can expect when they actually dive in and start playing.

Most recently, they released the full roster they have planned for the release date. No doubt it will be expanded on with DLC in short order, but it’s an interesting collection of fighters to start with. All the notable names, and a few oddballs like Mike Tyson, Bruce Lee, Kazushi Sakuraba, and CM Punk (of course).

Now there’s a new update. The first look at EA’s UFC 2 stats, with the “Stand Up” numbers for each and every in game fighter. Promise me it won’t get weird:

Reminder, these are only striking stats. I’ve highlighted a few of the weirder ones. Feel free to sound off with your own.

Heavyweights
Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat
Andrei Arlovski 95 Todd Duffee 89 Frank Mir 90 Bas Rutten 93
Josh Barnett 91 Gabriel Gonzaga 86 Matt Mitrione 88 Kazushi Sakuraba 87
Pat Barry 93 Mark Hunt 94 Roy Nelson 89 Bigfoot Silva 89
Travis Browne 93 Jon Jones 92 Minotauro Nogueira 86 Stefan Struve 87
Mark Coleman 90 Shawn Jordan 87 Alexey Oleynik 84 Young Tyson ?
Daniel Cormier 89 Derrick Lewis 88 Alistair Overeem 96 Old Tyson ?
Mirko Cro Cop 95 Ruslan Magomedov 87 Jared Rosholt 84 Cain Velasquez 95
Junior Dos Santos 92 Stipe Miocic 93 Ben Rothwell 90 Fabricio Werdum 93

Light Heavyweights
Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat
Ildemar Alcantara 84 Rashad Evans 92 Lyoto Machida 95 Chael Sonnen 86
Corey Anderson 86 Forrest Griffin 88 Jimi Manuwa 94 Glover Teixeira 91
Ryan Bader 89 Alexander Gustafsson 95 Gegard Mousasi 91 Young Tyson ?
Vitor Belfort 94 Dan Henderson 90 Minotouro Nogueira 88 Old Tyson ?
Michael Bisping 87 Rampage Jackson 91 Shogun Rua 91 Gian Villante 88
Jan Blachowicz 83 Anthony Johnson 96 Bas Rutten 93 Chris Weidman 90
Rafael Cavalcante 86 Jon Jones 95 Ovince Saint Preux 90 Fabio Maldonado 87
Daniel Cormier 93 Ilir Latifi 83 Kazushi Sakuraba 86
Patrick Cummins 87 Chuck Liddell 95 Anderson Silva 93

Middleweights
Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat
Ildemar Alcantara 82 Cezar Ferreira 84 Lyoto Machida 93 Kazushi Sakuraba 83
Sam Alvey 86 Kelvin Gastelum 88 Demian Maia 83 Anderson Silva 94
Vitor Belfort 91 Royce Gracie 84 Nate Marquardt 86 Chael Sonnen 85
Michael Bisping 89 Uriah Hall 91 Gegard Mousasi 90 Jacare Souza 91
Tim Boetsch 85 Dan Henderson 89 Mark Munoz 87 Georges St-Pierre 92
Derek Brunson 87 Tim Kennedy 91 Rafael Natal 87 Brad Tavares 86
Roan Carneiro 84 Robbie Lawler 94 Costas Philippou 85 Elias Theodorou 87
Nick Diaz 89 Thales Leites 88 Luke Rockhold 97 Chris Weidman 96
CB Dollaway 85 Rory MacDonald 89 Yoel Romero 87 Robert Whittaker 89

Welterweights
Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat
Omari Akhmedov 88 Benson Henderson 90 Hector Lombard 90 Mike Pyle 89
Thiago Alves 92 Johny Hendricks 92 Rory MacDonald 93 Kenny Robertson 86
Matt Brown 90 Matt Hughes 91 Neil Magny 88 Tarec Saffiedine 90
Carlos Condit 95 Martin Kampmann 89 Demian Maia 85 Ben Saunders 86
Nate Diaz 85 Dong Hyun Kim 91 Tim Means 90 Erick Silva 84
Nick Diaz 89 Pascal Krauss 86 Jordan Mein 89 Georges St-Pierre 95
Jake Ellenberger 88 Ryan LaFlare 88 Augusto Montano 88 Rick Story 86
Robbie Lawler 96 Gunnar Nelson 90 Brandon Thatch 89
Kelvin Gastelum 87 Bruce Lee 95 BJ Penn 90 Stephen Thompson 95
Royce Gracie 83 Hyun Gyu Lim 89 CM Punk 80 Tyron Woodely 94

Lightweights
Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat
Jose Aldo 94 Frankie Edgar 90 Myles Jury 92 Khabib Nurmagomedov 87
Eddie Alvarez 92 Paul Felder 89 Rustam Khabilov 87 Norman Parke 85
Olivier Aubin-Mercier 85 Tony Ferguson 89 Chad Laprise 85 Ross Pearson 87
Edson Barboza 91 Takanori Gomi 87 Joe Lauzon 85 BJ Penn 91
Gilbert Burns 85 TJ Grant 88 Bruce Lee 95 Anthony Pettis 95
Donald Cerrone 93 Bobby Green 88 Jorge Masvidal 90 Dustin Poirier 88
Michael Chiesa 83 Clay Guida 85 Gray Maynard 87 Diego Sanchez 86
Beneil Dariush 85 Benson Henderson 91 Conor McGregor 92 James Vick 85
Nate Diaz 89 Al Iaquinta 88 Yancy Medeiros 85
Rafael Dos Anjos 95 Michael Johnson 88 Gilbert Melendez 91
Joe Duffy 89 Chan Sung Jung 89 Jim MIller 86

Featherweights
Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat
Jose Aldo 96 TJ Dillashaw 91 Ricardo Lamas 86 Yair Rodriguez 88
Makwan Amirkhani 89 Frankie Edgar 91 Bruce Lee 96 Dennis Siver 87
Mirsad Bektic 85 Darren Elkins 84 Nik Lentz 88 Jeremy Stephens 92
Dennis Bermudez 86 Urijah Faber 87 Conor McGregor 99 Cub Swanson 89
Diego Brandao 88 Clay Guida 86 Chad Mendes 89 Hacran Dias 83
Dooho Choi 95 Max Holloway 92 Charles Oliveira 87 Tatsuya Kawajiri 85
Clay Collard 85 Daniel Hooker 91 Brian Ortega 84 Dustin Poirier 92
Dominick Cruz 92 Chan Sung Jung 90 BJ Penn 90

Bantamweights
Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat
Iuri Alcantara 91 TJ Dillashaw 96 Chris Holdsworth 87 Erik Perez 85
Thomas Almeida 94 John Dodson 93 Demetrious Johnson 94 Brad Pickett 89
Raphael Assuncao 86 Johnny Eduardo 86 Scott Jorgensen 88 Francisco Rivera 89
Renan Barao 92 Urijah Faber 90 Bruce Lee 97 Frankie Saenz 88
Alex Caceres 89 Mitch Gagnon 86 John Lineker 91 Joe Soto 88
Bryan Caraway 87 Manvel Gamburyan 88 Michael McDonald 93 Aljamain Sterling 87
Dominick Cruz 96 Cody Garbrandt 90 Takeya Mizugaki 88 Eddie Wineland 88

Women Bantamweights
Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat
Jessica Andrade 93 Ashlee Evans-Smith 89 Lauren Murphy 86 Marion Reneau 86
Liz Carmouche 86 Jessica Eye 87 Amanda Nunes 91 Ronda Rousey 87
Bethe Correia 88 Holly Holm 97 Juliana Pena 88 Leslie Smith 85
Alexis Davis 86 Sarah Kaufman 88 Raquel Pennington 89 Miesha Tate 89
Germaine De Randamie 88 Sara McMann 84 Elizabeth Phillips 85 Cat Zingano 93

Flyweights
Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat
Ali Bagautinov 89 Chris Cariaso 87 Kyoji Horiguchi 90 Sergio Pettis 91
Chris Beal 87 Henry Cejudo 85 Demetrious Johnson 97 Wilson Reis 84
Joseph Benavidez 93 John Dodson 96 Zach Makovsky 90 Justin Scoggins 85
Ray Borg 85 Jussier Formiga 84 John Moraga 91 Ian McCall 93
Chico Camus 85 Paddy Holohan 85 Dustin Ortiz 88

Women Strawweights
Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat Fighter Stat
Alexandra Albu 86 Carla Esparza 87 Juliana Lima 86 Tecia Torres 90
Joanne Claderwood 90 Claudia Gadelha 88 Randa Markos 85 Michelle Waterson 91
Alex Chambers 88 Seo Hee Ham 86 Maryna Moroz 87 Paige VanZant 90
Heather Jo Clark 87 Felice Herrig 88 Rose Namajunas 93
Kailin Curran 87 Joanna Jedrzejczyk 98 Jessica Penne 89
Aisling Daly 87 Valerie Letourneau 93 Bec Rawlings 89