UFC Wrapped: 2024 Stats, Knockouts, Submissions, Title Fights & More

Take a look back on the UFC in 2024.

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We saw the most fights at lightweight & featherweight, and the least fights at women's bantamweight & women's flyweight

Division	Amount of fights
Catchweight	7
Women's Bantamweight	21
Women's Flyweight	25
Heavyweight	33
Light Heavyweight	34
Women's Strawweight	37
Flyweight	44
Middleweight	60
Welterweight	62
Bantamweight	63
Featherweight	65
Lightweight	65

We saw 316 fights in front of live crowds and 201 fights in the APEX Arena

Method	Live	APEX
KO	56	56
SUB	47	36
DEC	177	104

Decisions made for 54.3% of all fight results

Method	Amount
Decision	281
KO/TKO	147
Submission	83
No-Contest	4
Disqualification	2

We saw 278 fights with the new gloves and 239 fights with the old gloves

New gloves had less knockouts despite being used in 53% of fights

	New Gloves (278 fights)	Old Gloves (239 fights)
Knockouts	70	77

We saw 212 unanimous decisions and 66 split decisions, 4 No-Contests and 2 disqualifications

We saw 20 UFC title fights, and belts changed hands 6 times

• Sean Strickland lost to Dricus Du Plessis
• Alexander Volkanovski lost to Ilia Topuria
• Sean O'Malley lost to Merab Dvalishvili
• Leon Edwards lost to Belal Muhammad
• Alexa Grasso lost to Valentina Shevchenko
• Raquel Pennington lost to Julianna Pena

Division	Title Fights
W. Strawweight	1
W. Flyweight	1
W. Bantamweight	2
Flyweight	2
Bantamweight	2
Featherweight	2
Lightweight	2
Welterweight	1
Middleweight	2
Light Heavyweight	3
Heavyweight	2

Methods of knockout in 2024:

• Punches
• Flying knee and punches
• Spinning wheel kick & punches
• Ground & Pound
• Ground Strikes
• Right Cross
• Left Hook
• Overhand Right
• Punches from Crucifix
• Right Hook
• Left Cross
• Leg Kicks
• Injury
• Retirement
• Flying Knee
• Front Body Kick
• Right Hook & Ground Strikes
• Knee & Punches
• Hammerfists
• Right Hand
• Left Hook & Punches
• Straight Left & Punches
• Uppercut
• Punches & Knee
• Combination Punches
• Left Hook & Hammerfists
• Head Kick
• Elbows & Ground Strikes
• Knee to Body & Head Kicks
• Left Hook & Ground Strikes
• Uppercut & Ground Strikes
• Right Cross & Ground Strikes
• Straight Left
• Jab & Ground Strikes
• Knees & Ground & Pound
• Punches to Ground & Pound
• Punches & Elbows
• Right Hand & Ground Strikes
• Knee
• Uppercuts
• Double Spinning Backfist
• Spinning Back Kick to Body
• Spinning Wheel Kick
• Crucifix & Elbows
• Slam & Elbows

Methods of submission in 2024

• Face Crank
• Rear-Naked Choke
• D'Arce Choke
• Arm-Triangle
• Armbar
• Triangle Choke
• Guillotine
• Triangle Armbar
• Heel Hook
• Ninja Choke
• Anaconda Choke

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