Aljamain Sterling vs Kevin Vallejos
Tale of the tape
How they win
Sterling
26 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 3
- Submission
- 8
- Decision
- 14
- Other
- 1
Vallejos
18 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 13
- Submission
- 2
- Decision
- 3
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
Sterling
23 measured UFC bouts, 330.7 minutes
Vallejos
4 measured UFC bouts, 28.2 minutes
- 4.251407 landed of 2675 thrown (53%)
- Significant strikes landedper minute
- 5.67160 landed of 343 thrown (47%)
- 2.15opponents landed 710 of 1739
- Significant strikes absorbedper minute
- 3.55opponents landed 100 of 242
- 32%56 of 174 attempts
- Takedowns completedof those attempted
- 33%2 of 6 attempts
- 45%conceded 27 of 49 faced
- Takedowns defendedof those faced
- 90%conceded 1 of 10 faced
- 0scored, 5 suffered
- Knockdownsscored and suffered
- 4scored, 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
Aljamain Sterling
3-2 in last 5- W
vs Youssef Zalal
Decision - Unanimous · R5 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal
Sig. strikes 46 of 89 · Takedowns 6 of 11
- W
vs Brian Ortega
Decision - Unanimous · R5 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang
Sig. strikes 124 of 227 · Takedowns 3 of 6
- L
vs Movsar Evloev
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC 310: Pantoja vs. Asakura
Sig. strikes 12 of 26 · Takedowns 6 of 8
- W
vs Calvin Kattar
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill
Sig. strikes 39 of 71 · Takedowns 8 of 13
- L
vs Sean O'Malley
KO/TKO · R2 · 0:51
· UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley
Sig. strikes 17 of 35 · Takedowns 0 of 2
Kevin Vallejos
4-0 in last 4- W
vs Josh Emmett
KO/TKO · R1 · 3:33
· UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Vallejos
Sig. strikes 36 of 55 · 2 knockdowns
- W
vs Giga Chikadze
KO/TKO · R2 · 1:29
· UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Kape
Sig. strikes 20 of 32 · Takedowns 0 of 1 · 1 knockdown
- W
vs Danny Silva
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Taira vs. Park
Sig. strikes 90 of 229 · Takedowns 2 of 5
- W
vs SeungWoo Choi
KO/TKO · R1 · 3:09
· UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2
Sig. strikes 14 of 27 · 1 knockdown
Statwell Intel
Fight analysis coming soon
We’re preparing the analysis for this matchup.