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So this is an article I wanted to share, since I notice there has been a lot of talk about how long a champion should be allowed to go without defending their belt, as usually there's a champion who it feels like it has been a year. I decided to look into some statistics as to how long the average wait is between title defenses.
I found an article that actually went through and calculated the average time between fights for every champion, and aside from learning some interesting statistics (I had no idea Bendo was tied for #1 with Sylvia for example).
This is including only fighters who fought 3 or more times as champion, but I went ahead and double checked the numbers and 138 days per defense is actually the shortest time with the exception of Eddie Alvarez's defense aginst Conor at 128, Couture's LHW defense against vitor, which clocked in at 127 days, Holly Holm at 111 days, or Tate at 126, Tanner defending against franklin after 119, and Menne defending against Bustamante after 105 days.
The list does not include cyborg either, who currently sits at 116 days per defense and counting, but I'm hesitant to include her in the calculations since she has had a marked weight advantage in every fight except possibly Holm.
With all that said, the reason I did not include those in the calculation (aside from laziness) is that too many factors factor into 1 and done defenses, and pretty much everyone in that list lost those fights. So far it seems that the fastest a champion can defend the belt consistently, that is more than one defense attempted, sits at 138 days.
I hope you clicked this thread looking for math lol.
Click here if you want to see the chart I used
So I've taken into account those numbers and I've removed any current champions at the time of that list.
This is also a very old and outdated list, but since I was looking up the averages, I figured it would fit well enough for my numbers. Plus I figured the variations since April of last year would not be sufficient to mess up the figures super badly, and to my knowledge no new champion has defended a belt 3 or more times since then. Stipe Miocic is at 224 if you want to include him.
So based on this completely unscientific method, I found that the average days between title defense for a champion who has fought 3 or more times as champion to be....
To show that there wouldn't be a tremendous deviation, even if I add in Conor's current 492 or so days without a defense, it only brings the number to 217, and he's arguably the most extreme example.
Thank you for reading all of this, Sherdog, and the main point I want to ask is....
Was that number what you expected? Does it seem high? Does it seem low? Is it fair to expect a champion to defend their belt every 204 days on average? Are you impressed by a champion being more active, such as Bendo's 138? I want to hear it!
Article Link for anyone who wants to read the whole thing.
Again, I realize this isn't current, but I wanted to average out the statistics and this was the easiest way to do it without making a chart myself. Flawed Methodology be damned I say!
I found an article that actually went through and calculated the average time between fights for every champion, and aside from learning some interesting statistics (I had no idea Bendo was tied for #1 with Sylvia for example).
This is including only fighters who fought 3 or more times as champion, but I went ahead and double checked the numbers and 138 days per defense is actually the shortest time with the exception of Eddie Alvarez's defense aginst Conor at 128, Couture's LHW defense against vitor, which clocked in at 127 days, Holly Holm at 111 days, or Tate at 126, Tanner defending against franklin after 119, and Menne defending against Bustamante after 105 days.
The list does not include cyborg either, who currently sits at 116 days per defense and counting, but I'm hesitant to include her in the calculations since she has had a marked weight advantage in every fight except possibly Holm.
With all that said, the reason I did not include those in the calculation (aside from laziness) is that too many factors factor into 1 and done defenses, and pretty much everyone in that list lost those fights. So far it seems that the fastest a champion can defend the belt consistently, that is more than one defense attempted, sits at 138 days.
I hope you clicked this thread looking for math lol.
Click here if you want to see the chart I used
So I've taken into account those numbers and I've removed any current champions at the time of that list.
This is also a very old and outdated list, but since I was looking up the averages, I figured it would fit well enough for my numbers. Plus I figured the variations since April of last year would not be sufficient to mess up the figures super badly, and to my knowledge no new champion has defended a belt 3 or more times since then. Stipe Miocic is at 224 if you want to include him.
So based on this completely unscientific method, I found that the average days between title defense for a champion who has fought 3 or more times as champion to be....
204.2 days or so.
To show that there wouldn't be a tremendous deviation, even if I add in Conor's current 492 or so days without a defense, it only brings the number to 217, and he's arguably the most extreme example.
Thank you for reading all of this, Sherdog, and the main point I want to ask is....
Was that number what you expected? Does it seem high? Does it seem low? Is it fair to expect a champion to defend their belt every 204 days on average? Are you impressed by a champion being more active, such as Bendo's 138? I want to hear it!
Article Link for anyone who wants to read the whole thing.
Again, I realize this isn't current, but I wanted to average out the statistics and this was the easiest way to do it without making a chart myself. Flawed Methodology be damned I say!
