Jake Matthews vs Tahir Abdullayev
Tale of the tape
How they win
Matthews
23 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 5
- Submission
- 9
- Decision
- 9
Abdullayev
20 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 11
- Submission
- 7
- Decision
- 2
Career averages
How these figures are measured
- Sig. strikes landed per minute
- Significant strikes landed, divided by minutes fought. Career figure.
- Strike accuracy, all strikes
- Every strike landed as a share of every strike thrown, significant or not, over the career. ESPN's own figure. It is not significant-strike accuracy, which runs lower.
- Takedowns per 15 minutes
- Takedowns landed for every 15 minutes fought, the length of a three-round bout. Career figure.
- Takedown accuracy
- Takedowns landed as a share of those attempted. Career figure.
- Submission attempts per 15 minutes
- Submission attempts for every 15 minutes fought. Career figure.
- Finish rate
- Share of the wins on file that ended by knockout, technical knockout or submission.
- Days since last fight
- From the last bout on file to the date of this one.
Records, measurements and career averages are reported by ESPN. The UFC record, last fight, finish rate and win methods are counted by Statwell from the bouts on file for each fighter, which can be fewer than the full professional record.
Matchup snapshot
Matthews
24 measured UFC bouts, 275.7 minutes
Abdullayev
1 measured UFC bout, 14.5 minutes
- 3.36925 landed of 2079 thrown (44%)
- Significant strikes landedper minute
- 2.5537 landed of 87 thrown (43%)
- 2.58opponents landed 710 of 1802
- Significant strikes absorbedper minute
- 2.41opponents landed 35 of 72
- 42%25 of 60 attempts
- Takedowns completedof those attempted
- 33%2 of 6 attempts
- 67%conceded 14 of 42 faced
- Takedowns defendedof those faced
- 100%conceded 0 of 1 faced
- 6scored, 4 suffered
- Knockdownsscored and suffered
- 0scored, 0 suffered
About these statistics
Counted by Statwell from ESPN’s per-bout figures over each fighter’s measured UFC bouts. Small samples move quickly: read each figure with the number of bouts behind it. Nothing here is adjusted for the level of past opponents.
Recent form
Jake Matthews
4-1 in last 5- W
vs Carlston Harris
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Figueiredo
Sig. strikes 55 of 96 · 1 knockdown
- L
vs Neil Magny
Submission · R3 · 3:08
· UFC Fight Night: Ulberg vs. Reyes
Sig. strikes 18 of 44 · Takedowns 0 of 1
- W
vs Chidi Njokuani
Submission · R1 · 1:09
· UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Teixeira
Sig. strikes 3 of 7 · Takedowns 1 of 1
- W
vs Francisco Prado
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC 312: Du Plessis vs. Strickland 2
Sig. strikes 68 of 184
- W
vs Phil Rowe
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier
Sig. strikes 66 of 164 · Takedowns 1 of 1
Tahir Abdullayev
1-0 in last 1- W
vs Jefferson Nascimento
KO/TKO · R3 · 4:28
· UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. Torres
Sig. strikes 37 of 87 · Takedowns 2 of 6
Statwell Intel
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