Stat Breakdown: Jon Jones vs Anderson Silva

[Rich Davie]

I think this is an awesome feature that they have over at Breakdown Fights.com, it allows you to pick fighters to compare stats of specific fighters side-by-side.

Since there's so much talk of a superfight between Jon Jones and Anderson Silva, I set-up these 2 guys in a side-by-side analysis over a 4 year period since Jon Jones has only been fighting in MMA just a little over 4 years.

Stat Breakdown: Jon Jones vs Anderson Silva Below we've measured each fighter's performance in major fights over the last 4 year(s). Click to CHANGE match up, LINK to this breakdown, or LEARN more about these stats.

Jon Jones 4-YEAR RECORD: 10-1-0 Anderson Silva 4-YEAR RECORD: 8-0-0 EFFECTIVENESS SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS PER HOUR Type of Attack Significant Strikes All Strikes Knockdowns KO/TKOs Takedowns Passes Submissions Jones Opponent +/- 234 90 144 306 125 180 1.5 0.0 1.5 1.5 0.0 1.5 11.0 0.0 11.0 9.5 0.0 9.5 2.0 0.0 2.0 Silva Opponent +/- 166 99 68 201 282 -80 4.6 0.0 4.6 2.9 0.0 2.9 1.1 2.9 -1.7 0.6 5.2 -4.6 0.6 0.0 0.6 EFFICIENCY % OF ATTEMPTS SUCCESSFUL Type of Attack % Sig. Strikes Landed % All Strikes Landed % TD Completed % Subs Completed Jones Opponent +/- 51% 32% 19% 57% 40% 17% 63% 0% 63% 57% NA NA Silva Opponent +/- 61% 37% 24% 64% 60% 4% 100% 12% 88% 33% 0% 33% LEVEL OF COMPETITION TOTAL 5-YEAR W/L RECORD OF OPPONENTS MMA Organization All Organizations UFC Experience Major US Experience Jones's Opponents 60 - 19 - 1 55 - 18 - 1 55 - 19 - 1 Silva's Opponents 53 - 20 - 0 41 - 16 - 0 47 - 19 - 0 Jon Jones Anderson Silva Link to this breakdown: http://www.breakdownfights.com/?page...235&lookback=4 Understanding the Stats: Data only includes fights from the last 4 year(s) with stats in the Fight Metric database. That means fights in smaller organizations are ignored. Results are color-coded by how the fighter compares to other fighters in the database: the darker the green the better, the darker the red the worse. High numbers are good in the fighter's column, low numbers are good in the fighter's opponents column. We don't take a fighter's stats too seriously until they have 3-5 fights in the database. Breakdowns with fewer than that should be taken with an extra dose of skepticism. The "level of competition" (bottom of stats) captures how difficult the fighter's opponents have been by showing the total 5-year W/L record of opponents at the time they fought. It's easy to rack up sexy stats when you fight goofs (and vice-verse) so stats should be viewed with the level of competition in mind (read more). Click to read more FAQs about understanding these stats. http://www.breakdownfights.com/?page_id=3605

[Rich Davie]

It looks like these numbers favor Jon Jones in this fantasy match-up.

[Brunow]

It looks like these numbers favor Jon Jones in this fantasy match-up.

I'd favor Jones in a match up. But I don't see it happening.

[jbleedin]

I'd favor Jones in a match up. But I don't see it happening.

Me either. Silva would rather face the almighty Rockhold.

[Misfit]

It depends at which weight its at, at 185, I favor silva, Jones would be damn near dead making that weight. @ 195 I think its an even fight, I really don't know who wins. @ 205, I see Jones winning.

posting out of Alaska this summer.

[BluenoseGreig]

I think these stats would look in favour of Anderson much more if just the first Sonnen fight was removed from it!

As for who would win, it would be Jones as I don't think the fight would ever happen at 185, Jones would never be able to make that weight and fight effectively. And at 205/195 Jones would be too much for Anderson.

[Dirty Daley]

Good find. Interesting stat's. If they do fight , which will be the biggest match for decades! I have to go with bones jones. Size and a more well rounded game.

Let's be honest here! Silva is getting near to retirement , zuffa should really get this fight in before silva get's beat by another mw or retires. They missed the fedor boat, ruined wand vs chuck for the belt's & cro cop was in against kongo and sanchez for his fierst ufc fight's. Should really have been randy or sylvia at the time.

[Brunow]

Me either. Silva would rather face the almighty Rockhold.

Evidence of what Anderson said? Thought not.



And Anderson is the GOAT, why isn't Jones challenging his belt going down to 185?

[Brunow]

It depends at which weight its at, at 185, I favor silva, Jones would be damn near dead making that weight. @ 195 I think its an even fight, I really don't know who wins. @ 205, I see Jones winning.

posting out of Alaska this summer.

Good point, I'd just assume it would be at 205, but in a catch weight that would be much fairer it would be interesting.

[Kickass32]

While Jones rather fight Hendo and rematch the rest of the division

And fight tougher opponents than Silva has for a majority of his UFC career....