Issue 108

December 2013

Powerful percentages and show-stopping stats from MMA’s past month.

150ng/mL

Drugs tests administered by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) recently changed to look for marijuana metabolites over 150ng/mL, up from 50ng/mL. The NSAC has famously suspended weed fan Nick Diaz twice for testing over its previous threshold.

40%

Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indiana was around 40% full for UFC Fight Night 27 headlined by Carlos Condit vs. Martin Kampmann.

$401k

With the help of an arm triangle, Princeton graduate Jake Butler went 3-0 at One FC 10 in September. Butler isn’t your average fighter, however. He used to have a sought-after 401(k) pension and other perks in his previous job, working for Thor Equities on Wall Street. 

1-2

World Series of Fighting 5 wasn’t a good night for the Gracies. Between them, the three representatives of MMA’s first family went 1-2. In his debut, Neiman Gracie took an armbar victory, while Gregor and Rolles lost by decision and knockout respectively.

88%

Long-time UFC heavyweight Frank Mir protested his 116-second TKO loss to Josh Barnett at UFC 164. The outcome means that strikes account for 88% of his career defeats.

11

Things change quickly in MMA. Exactly 11 seconds after Ryan Bader dropped Glover Teixeira for the last time in the main event of UFC Fight Night 28 in Belo Horizonte, he was on his back en route to a TKO loss having been floored by a right-left combo from the Brazilian.

1.2

There was a combined total of 18 guard passes and reversals in the Tor Troeng vs. Rafael Natal ‘Fight of the Night’ at UFC Fight Night 28. That averages to 1.2 positional advances per minute.