CompuStrike’s motto is, “Every strike counts.”
Looking at the face of Fedor Emelianenko after his bout with Antonio Silva on Saturday, Feb. 12, that saying appeared to ring true, at least on the part of Silva's strikes.
A look at the numbers compiled from the quarterfinal bout in the Strikeforce World Grand Prix Heavyweight Tournament reveal that Silva delivered a huge number of strikes to Fedor, mostly from the ground and mostly power strikes.
Silva succeeded in landing 72 of 128 attempted strikes. Of the 72 strikes that did land, 51 of them were power strikes. Those numbers go a long way toward explaining why Fedor’s face looked like an overripe tomato when the referee waved the fight off at the conclusion of the second round, giving Silva the TKO win.
Dig a little deeper into the stats and you see that of those 72 strikes, 47 were landed while on the ground in the second round. Thirty-eight, or 80 percent of those landed strikes being power strikes.
By comparison, Fedor landed 36 strikes out of an attempted 53 with 16 power strikes. Of those 36 strikes, 28 were landed in the first round.
I know the numbers aren’t needed to show that Silva dominated the fight, but sometimes it’s nice to see the numbers behind a fighter’s victory, especially one where one fighters dominates his opponent.
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