How StrikeSheet works
A short guide for anyone who watches the UFC but has never used a stats site. Nothing here assumes you know the jargon.
What this site is
StrikeSheet tracks the UFC: who is fighting whom, when the next card is on, how every fight ended, and where each fighter stands in their division. It is a place to check what is coming up and to look up a fighter you have just heard of.
You do not need an account to read any of it. An account only adds one thing, which is the next section.
Following fighters
The + button beside a fighter's name follows them. When you follow someone, we email you as soon as their next fight is booked — usually weeks or months ahead, which is the point. Fights are announced quietly and it is easy to find out the week of the event, or afterwards.
You choose how often those emails arrive, or turn them off entirely, in your account settings. Following is also just a shortlist: the Following page shows everyone you follow with their next fight beside them.
What the rankings mean
Fighters compete in divisions — weight classes with an upper limit they have to make on the scales the day before. A Lightweight fights at 70 kg, a Welterweight at 77 kg. That limit is the whole meaning of the division name.
Within each division the champion holds the belt, and the fighters below are ranked 1 to 15 — number 1 being the closest to a title shot. A fighter's rank appears next to their name as #4, and champions carry a crown.
P4P stands for pound for pound. It is a separate list that ignores weight entirely and asks a different question: who are the best fighters in the promotion, if size were not a factor? A flyweight and a heavyweight will never meet, so it is an argument rather than a result — which is why people enjoy it.
Event cards and times
An event — a "card" — is one night of fights, usually eight to thirteen bouts. The strip along the top of the homepage moves between cards: past ones to the left, upcoming to the right, the current one in the middle.
A card is split into sections. The main card is the headline half of the night; the prelims run before it. The main event is the last fight of the night, not the first.
Times marked est. are estimates. Only the start of the card is published; everything after it depends on how quickly the earlier fights end, which nobody can know in advance. We work them out from typical fight lengths and label them so you know not to plan around the minute.
Contender Series events are hidden by default. They are a weekly developmental show rather than a numbered UFC card, and they outnumber the main events. The toggle above the strip brings them back.
Likes and dislikes
The thumbs beside a fighter are opinion, not data. They do not affect rankings, records or anything else on the site — they are just a running tally of what visitors think of a fighter, and a way to see whether the rest of the site agrees with you.
You can only hold one at a time per fighter, and pressing the same one again removes it.
Reading a fighter's page
A fighter's record is written wins-losses-draws, so 28-4-0 is twenty-eight wins, four losses, no draws. The row of letters underneath is their last five fights, most recent first: W a win, L a loss.
Career stats, where we have them, cover how a fighter tends to win: how accurately they strike, how often they are taken down, whether their wins come by knockout, submission or decision. A dash means we do not hold that figure, not that the number is zero.