{"id":1991,"date":"2026-09-29T19:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-elementor\/2026\/09\/29\/which-divisions-finish-fights-the-roster-by-the-numbers\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T19:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:55:13","slug":"which-divisions-finish-fights-the-roster-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-elementor\/2026\/09\/29\/which-divisions-finish-fights-the-roster-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Which divisions finish fights? The roster, by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Add up every win on the roster and ask one question of each division: how often does the fight end before the judges are needed? The answer runs from 82% at light heavyweight down to 54% at women&#039;s flyweight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Division<\/th><th>Fighters<\/th><th>Wins<\/th><th>KO\/TKO<\/th><th>Submission<\/th><th>Finish rate<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Light Heavyweight<\/td><td>48<\/td><td>663<\/td><td>417<\/td><td>127<\/td><td><strong>82%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Heavyweight<\/td><td>52<\/td><td>654<\/td><td>394<\/td><td>114<\/td><td><strong>78%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Middleweight<\/td><td>87<\/td><td>1281<\/td><td>599<\/td><td>390<\/td><td><strong>77%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Lightweight<\/td><td>95<\/td><td>1585<\/td><td>713<\/td><td>441<\/td><td><strong>73%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Welterweight<\/td><td>85<\/td><td>1391<\/td><td>652<\/td><td>337<\/td><td><strong>71%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Flyweight<\/td><td>49<\/td><td>792<\/td><td>312<\/td><td>246<\/td><td><strong>70%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Featherweight<\/td><td>93<\/td><td>1438<\/td><td>631<\/td><td>318<\/td><td><strong>66%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Bantamweight<\/td><td>68<\/td><td>1029<\/td><td>407<\/td><td>257<\/td><td><strong>65%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Women&#039;s Strawweight<\/td><td>47<\/td><td>595<\/td><td>202<\/td><td>151<\/td><td><strong>59%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Women&#039;s Bantamweight<\/td><td>29<\/td><td>332<\/td><td>109<\/td><td>79<\/td><td><strong>57%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Women&#039;s Flyweight<\/td><td>28<\/td><td>349<\/td><td>94<\/td><td>96<\/td><td><strong>54%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knockouts are most common at light heavyweight, where 63% of all wins are stoppages by strikes. Submissions peak at flyweight, at 31%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The figures are career totals for every fighter currently listed in each division, so a veteran with forty fights counts for more than a newcomer with eight. They move every time the roster syncs.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 82% at light heavyweight to 54% at women&#8217;s flyweight: how often each weight class ends a fight before the scorecards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/mma-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}