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Noah Gugnon

Lightweight · REAL v1.0 (registered) #54; v1.1 (shadow) #49

Descriptive profile. The resume rank is what has been earned; these statistics are context, not a prediction. A test on Oct 20, 2026 found that career statistics add nothing reliable to age, layoff and experience as predictors of the next result (experiments/REGISTER.md, EXP-2026-10-20-14).

Weight band 51-55: the 10th to 90th percentile of his position across weight vectors drawn near the 70/30 weights. Rating 1,509, deviation 242: measured from 2 UFC bouts; a one-bout newcomer sits near 290. Provisional: 2 UFC bouts; the rating rests on little evidence.

Age 26 (born 2000-10-18) · Height unknown · Reach unknown · Stance unknown · 8 days since last bout (2026-10-24) · Last five 1-1 · Streak L1

Why he is ranked here

Rating 1,509 is the division's 65th highest of 96 board fighters; the ledger stands at -1.0 (less 1.0 for blowout losses; losses count for three years); 0 quality wins in 15 years, 0 over top-10 opponents; no form penalty (1-1 last five). Score -0.10 = -0.10 (rating term, 70% weight) +0.00 (ledger term, 30% weight) -0.00 (form penalty); score order put him at #53; the head-to-head rule (the winner of the most recent meeting within three years moves directly above the loser when ranked at most three places behind, six within a year) placed him #54.

TermValueDetail
Score-0.1070% rating term + 30% ledger term - form penalty
Rating term-0.10resume rating 1,509, scaled against the division's interdecile range
Ledger term+0.00quality ledger -1.0: +0.0 QW +0.0 proof -1.0 blowout -0.0 weak
Form penalty0.00last five 1-1
Quality wins, 15 years00 over top-10 opponents, 0 over top-15
Placementscore order #53; head-to-head -> #54v1.0 (registered)
Shadow board v1.1#49score -0.20; score order #49

Rules, weights and worked examples: methodology.

All 2 UFC bouts

DateEventOpponentOpp. official rankResultMethodRoundModel p
2026-10-24UFC 333: Volkanovski vs. EvloevKody SteeleunrankedLKO/TKO1 (3:54)58%
2026-08-01UFC Fight Night: Medic vs. RodriguezMilos JanicicunrankedWsubmission1 (1:21)50%

Opp. official rank = the UFC media-panel rank of the opponent on the date (C champion, #1 to #15, unranked; n/a before Feb 2013 or where no official board existed). Model p = the predictive model's pre-fight win chance for him (frozen performance-adjusted Elo; bouts before 2020 were in its tuning sample). Linked opponents have a profile.

Career statistics

Through 2026-10-31, UFC bouts only. Percentile = share of the 96 board fighters at Lightweight at or below this value; high is a position in the division, not a verdict.

Output
Significant strikes landed per minute6.86(93rd percentile at Lightweight)
Significant strike accuracy53%(77th percentile at Lightweight)
Knockdowns scored per 15 minutes0.00(24th percentile at Lightweight)
Share of wins by finish100%(100th percentile at Lightweight)
Defence and damage
Significant strikes absorbed per minute5.90(86th percentile at Lightweight)
Significant strike defence56%(74th percentile at Lightweight)
Knockdowns suffered per 15 minutes2.86(99th percentile at Lightweight)
Significant strikes absorbed, career31(7th percentile at Lightweight)
KO/TKO losses1 (last 2026-10-24, 8 days ago)(62nd percentile at Lightweight)
Submission losses0(52nd percentile at Lightweight)
KO/TKO losses per bout over 10 years, each weighted down by the finisher's danger0.338(96th percentile at Lightweight)
Grappling
Takedowns landed per 15 minutes0.00(16th percentile at Lightweight)
Takedown defence67%(50th percentile at Lightweight)
Share of cage time in control13%(38th percentile at Lightweight)
Share of significant strikes landed in the clinch or on the ground14%(31st percentile at Lightweight)
Stylestriker (0.0 takedown attempts per 15 min; 13% control)
Career stage
Age26.0(4th percentile at Lightweight)
Age at UFC debut25.8(38th percentile at Lightweight)
Years since UFC debut0.3(6th percentile at Lightweight)
UFC bouts2(21st percentile at Lightweight)
Cage time, minutes5(4th percentile at Lightweight)
Bouts per year, last three years2.0(83rd percentile at Lightweight)
Days since last bout8(7th percentile at Lightweight)

Board position since Oct 2023

C20406020252026Oct 2023Oct 20262026-08-07: #29, Lightweight2026-08-14: #30, Lightweight2026-08-21: #30, Lightweight2026-08-28: #29, Lightweight2026-09-04: #28, Lightweight2026-09-11: #28, Lightweight2026-09-18: #29, Lightweight2026-09-25: #29, Lightweight2026-09-26: #29, Lightweight2026-10-03: #31, Lightweight2026-10-10: #31, Lightweight2026-10-17: #31, Lightweight2026-10-24: #55, Lightweight2026-10-31: #54, Lightweight#54

Position on the registered v1.0 board at each weekly snapshot (C = title holder or reserved, drawn at the top; lower is better). Absent from 118 of 132 snapshots (gaps in the line).

Predictive rating by bout

1,5001,550Aug 2026Oct 20262026-08-01: 1,536 (W vs Milos Janicic)2026-10-24: 1,504 (L vs Kody Steele)1,504

Rating after each UFC bout from the frozen predictive model (performance-adjusted Elo, data/processed/elo_history.csv; a debut starts at 1,500). The resume rating's history is not stored, so this is the predictive line, which is a different number from the resume rating in the header.

Trajectory

No trajectory index: it needs three decided UFC bouts and a bout within the last three years (config/decline.yaml).

Context flags

Descriptive only. Each line is a population fact about fighters like him, not a forecast for him; the register entries hold the measurements.

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