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Fact-Checking Fightnomics: Is the Pace Advantage real?

In part 2 of the Fact-Checking Fightnomics series, Paul Gift puts the “Pace Advantage” under the microscope to see if we should truly fear a fighter’s rate of significant strike attempts per minute.

"Apparently it's not always the damage done when it comes to winning fights, it's the thought that counts."

These are the words of Reed Kuhn, a.k.a. Fightnomics, after coming to the conclusion that fighters with a higher pace - or rate of significant strike attempts per minute - have an advantage going into an MMA bout. His full write-up can be found online for free or you can pay money and read it as a section in his book.