I’m looking at GSP’s UFC stats and it just further convinces me he is, at least quantitatively, the greatest MMA wrestler ever – better than Khamzat, Khabib, Islam, Askren, DC, whoever.

I know the stats only tell part of the story in a hopelessly sample-size handicapped sport like MMA, but his are just off the charts – no one that meets an acceptable grappling competition threshold has a better mix of TDD and TD accuracy.

GSP TDA – 74% (despite 10 matches with Div 1/2 wrestlers—highest in this sample—and holding the record for TD’s)

TDD – 83%

Other notable fighters:

Khabib – 48%/84%

Islam – 60%/90%

Usman – 45%/89%

Khamzat – 46%/100%

Jones – 45%/95%

Cormier – 44%/80%

Given the combination of wresting SOS (among the best ever, with 3 fights against Hughes, two against Koscheck, one against Hendricks, one against Fitch etc), activity (a record 90 TD’s landed — clearly no “small sample” skew) combination of GOAT TD accuracy and stout TDD and other quantitative factors (easily the most control and top positions time in UFC history), does anyone else even come close from a purely statistical POV?