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But all of those "stats" don't factor in when it comes to rankings. It's primarily who beats who, who wins a title and how many title defenses a fighter has.The UFC's p4p fighter rankings seem pretty arbitrary and more of a popularity contest rather than on actual merit.
Based on FightMetric and Sherdog's statistics on fighters' skills in striking, standup grappling, and ground grappling, this is what the P4P rankings would look like:UFC's P4P Fighter Rankings(Conor, who hasn't fought in nearly 2 years, is higher ranked than GSP, who moved up in weight and beaten a bigger fighter?)
- Demetrious Johnson
- Conor McGregor
- Daniel Cormier
- Stipe Miocic
- Max Holloway
- Georges St-Pierre
- TJ Dillashaw
- Tyron Woodley
- Tony Ferguson
- Robert Whittaker
- Cody Garbrandt
- Khabib Nurmagomedov
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StrikingP4P Fighter Rankings based on FightMetric Stats:
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- Khabib Nurmagomedov
- Demetrious Johnson
- GSP
- Tyron Woodley
- TJ Dillashaw
- Tony Ferguson
- Daniel Cormier
- Max Holloway
- Stipe Miocic
- Robert Whittaker
- Conor McGregor
- Cody Garbrandt
Offensive: (Significant strikes per minute, striking % accuracy)
Defensive: (Significant strikes absorbed per minute, % of strikes avoided, loss by (T)KO)
- Max Holloway (6.2, 43%)
- Conor McGregor (5.82, 47%)
- TJ Dillashaw (5.26, 40%)
- Tony Ferguson (5.09, 42%)
- Robert Whittaker (4.77, 41%)
- Stipe Miocic (4.75, 51%)
- Khabib Nurmagomedov (4.11, 50%)
- Daniel Cormier (3.84, 49%)
- Georges St-Pierre (3.78, 53%)
- Cody Garbrandt (3.45, 37%)
- Demetrious Johnson (3.44, 54%)
- Tyron Woodley (2.48, 47%)
- Khabib Nurmagomedov (1.52, 70%, 0)
- Demetrious Johnson (1.64, 67%, 0)
- Tony Ferguson (3.48, 64%, 0)
- Max Holloway (3.9, 65%, 0)
- Conor McGregor (4.55, 57%, 0)
- Georges St-Pierre (1.4, 72%, 1)
- Tyron Woodley (2.35, 61%, 1)
- Daniel Cormier (2.47, 58%, 1)
- Stipe Miocic (2.88, 63%, 1)
- TJ Dillashaw (2.91, 66%, 1)
- Cody Garbrandt (2.99, 69%, 1)
- Robert Whittaker (3.50, 62%, 1)
Stand-up grappling
Offensive: (takedown per 15 minutes, takedown accuracy %)
Defensive: (takedown defense %)
- Khabib Nurmagomedov (5.85, 45%)
- Georges St-Pierre (4.16, 74%)
- Demetrious Johnson (3.54, 56%)
- Stipe Miocic (2.35, 37%)
- Daniel Cormier (1.89, 42%)
- TJ Dillashaw (1.73, 37%)
- Tyron Woodley (1.40, 45%)
- Cody Garbrandt (1.06, 38%)
- Conor McGregor (0.92, 65%)
- Tony Ferguson (0.64, 42%)
- Robert Whittaker (0.44, 66%)
- Max Holloway (0.28, 80%)
- Cody Garbrandt (100%)
- Tyron Woodley (94%)
- Robert Whittaker (86%)
- TJ Dillashaw (85%)
- Georges St-Pierre (83%)
- Khabib Nurmagomedov (83%)
- Max Holloway (83%)
- Daniel Cormier (80%)
- Tony Ferguson (76%)
- Stipe Miocic (75%)
- Conor McGregor (73%)
- Demetrious Johnson (65%)
Ground grappling
Offensive: (submission attempts per 15 minutes, win by submission)
Defensive: (loss by submission / number of fights)
- Demetrious Johnson (0.6, 11)
- Tony Ferguson (1.6, 8)
- Khabib Nurmagomedov (0.5, 8)
- Georges St-Pierre (1.1, 6)
- Tyron Woodley (0.5, 5)
- Robert Whittaker (0, 5)
- Daniel Cormier (0.5, 4)
- TJ Dillashaw (1, 3)
- Max Holloway (0.5, 2)
- Conor McGregor (0, 1)
- Stipe Miocic (0, 0)
- Cody Garbrandt (0, 0)
- Demetrious Johnson (0 / 30)
- Khabib Nurmagomedov (0 / 25)
- Tyron Woodley (0 / 22)
- Daniel Cormier (0 / 22)
- Stipe Miocic (0 / 20)
- TJ Dillashaw (0 / 19)
- Cody Garbrandt (0 / 12)
- Georges St-Pierre (1 / 28)
- Tony Ferguson (1 / 27)
- Robert Whittaker (1 / 24)
- Max Holloway (1 / 22)
- Conor McGregor (3 / 24)
Seriously, how can someone be P4P #1 without even winning a title?