Statistical Nightmare for Diego Sanchez

On Cage Cast today the crew of WKR tried to describe the ass-kicking B.J. Penn put on Diego Sanchez last night with words like, massacre, decimation, annihilate, carnage, trounce, thrashing or vanquish.

But to truly grasp the utter domination of Penn over Sanchez one simply needs to marvel at the sheer statistical ascendancy of Penn. (Courtesy of Fight Metric's statistical report)

B.J. Penn landed 150 of 214 (70%) total strikes and landed 63 of 114 (55%) of his power strikes. Through five rounds Penn averaged 43 strikes thrown while landing an average of 30 per round. When you just look at power strikes Penn averaged 22 thrown per round landing 12.  That looks like a perfect quarterback rating to WKR.

Compare that to Diego Sanchez who only landed 8 of 108 total strikes. A measly 7.4% of Sanchez's strikes landed. Sanchez only averaged 21.6 thrown strikes per round landing, on average, only 1.6! WKR almost forgot the 27 feeble takedown attempts by Diego none of which were completed.

More fun with the numbers after the jump.

SBN coverage of UFC 107: Penn vs. Sanchez

Then there is WKR's favorite Fight Metric number: performance rating. Penn's performance rating was a 75 while Diego Sanchez was a languid 17.

Total Offensive output was completely one sided with Penn being responsible for 88.3% of the offense in the fight. Sanchez only contributed 11.7% of offense.      

When you are done looking at all of the data it seems preposterous that a fighter as good as Diego could be so ineffective.WKR feels like this guy from The Princess Bride.

SBN coverage of UFC 107: Penn vs. Sanchez