GSP and Fitch: Blasts from their Pasts

Looking forward to next Saturday’s matchup between Georges St. Pierre and Jon Fitch, we’ll be revisiting some of the fights from their pasts. Here’s the report release schedule for the week:

Sunday: Georges St. Pierre vs. Jason “Mayhem” Miller
Monday: Georges St. Pierre vs. Karo Parisyan
Tuesday: Jon Fitch vs. Brock Larson
Wednesday: Georges St. Pierre vs. Josh Koscheck
Thursday: Jon Fitch vs. Jeff Joslin
Friday: Jon Fitch Career TPR Report

Come back every day this week for more FightMetric reports.

Source:GSP and Fitch: Blasts from their Pasts

The Numbers that Matter from Griffin vs. Rampage

We kind of left you in a lurch posting just the stats from the fight but not any explanation. We’ve got a guest-post up at FanHouse to break down some of the numbers from this fight including answers to:

Check out the whole article over at FanHouse.

Source:The Numbers that Matter from Griffin vs. Rampage

Don't Forget About Sherk

It’s been all BJ all the time the last couple of weeks here, as we ramped up to UFC 84 with a few detailed reports of his fights. Today marks the release of the career TPR Report for BJ Penn and we have an article up at Yahoo Sports with some really interesting information about BJ’s jiu-jitsu and the way he passes guard.

But don’t think we forgot about Sherk. While the majority of his fights have been in smaller organizations, and thus, do not have readily accessible video, we are doing the best we can to learn what we can about Sherk’s time in the UFC. The first product of that study is released today, a detailed report on his fight with Nick Diaz. This is one of those odd fights where all three judges agree precisely on the scoring, but the fan community is up in arms. As the stats show, the fight was extremely close, nearly a draw. What are the chances that Penn-Sherk is that close?

Source:Don't Forget About Sherk

Mike Goldberg: FightMetric Mouthpiece?

It’s always nice when folks let us know they enjoy our stats, but an even bigger pleasure is knowing that people are using them for their own purposes. We’ve helped several MMA writers add color to their stories with some stats, and our in-depth fight reports are used (and mis-used) in arguments across countless forums.

Veteran UFC announcer Mike Goldberg has used some FightMetric stats on-air in the past, but no mention was more explicit than during the UFC 83 telecast. During the St. Pierre-Serra fight, Goldberg not only used several statistics we published in our article at Yahoo Sports, but immediatebly afterward, he quoted verbatim from the article, labeling St. Pierre, “maybe the best functional wrestler in MMA today.”

We maintain a liberal attribution policy when it comes to quoting numbers we’ve made publicly available on this site or others specifically because we want to see the ideas spread even independent of the FightMetric name. Indeed, Goldberg might simply be prohibited from mentioning the name of a site or company that isn’t an official UFC sponsor. But given the potential exposure, if you were faced with this situation, what would you feel more of, disappointment or pride?

Source:Mike Goldberg: FightMetric Mouthpiece?

Volunteers?

We’re looking for four volunteers to test a new feature that we have in the works. Time committment is about 15 minutes and it should be a lot of fun.

***UPDATE: Thank you to all who volunteered ***

Source:Volunteers?