Does Striking Accuracy Accurately Measure Striking?

A New Statistic Has Been Introduced To Help Explain If A Fighter’s Striking Accuracy In A Fight Should Be Considered Good Or Bad

Feb. 5, 2025

On the surface, Striking Accuracy seems like one of the simplest statistics in MMA: you compare how many strikes a fighter lands to how many they attempt, and you get a percentage. If you throw 100 strikes and land 50 of them, you have a Striking Accuracy of 50%. Pretty simple.

The problem is that not all strikes are created equal. Some are much harder to land than others. Depending on which strikes a fighter throws, that 50% accuracy could be good, or it could be bad.

Let’s imagine a fighter who only throws one kind of strike. This imaginary fighter only…