Who won III vs Kusch?
Ray Cooper beat Pavel Kusch by during the main event of PFL 2018 #6, on Thursday 16th August 2018 at Ocean Resort Casino in Atlantic City.
The scorecards were announced as in favor of winner Ray Cooper.
The fight was scheduled to take place over 3 rounds in the Welterweight division, which meant the weight limit was 170 pounds (12.1 stone or 77.1 KG).
III vs Kusch stats
Ray Cooper stepped into the octagon with a record of 14 wins, 5 loses and 0 draws, 9 of those wins coming by the way of knock out and 5 by submission.
Pavel Kusch made his way to the cage with a record of 23 wins, 5 loses and 0 draws, with 3 of those wins by knock out and 20 by submission.
The stats suggested Cooper had a massive power advantage over Kusch, boasting at 64% knock out percentage over Kusch's 13%.
If the fight went to the ground, their records suggested Kusch had a massive advantage over Cooper, boosting at 87% submission rate over Cooper's 36%.
Ray Cooper was the younger man by 4 years, at 31 years old.
Kusch had a height advantage of 5 inches over Cooper. That also extended to a 6-inch reach advantage.
Cooper was arguably the less experienced fighter, having had 9 fewer fights, and made his debut in 2012, 3 year later than Kusch, whose first professional fight was in 2009. He had fought 16 more professional rounds, 57 to Kusch's 41.
III vs Kusch form
Cooper had beaten 4 of his last 5 opponents, stopping 1 of them, going to the judges 3 times.
In his last fight leading up to this contest, he had lost to Carlos Leal at PFL 2022 #3 on 6th May 2022 by unanimous decision in their 3 round contest at Esports Stadium Arlington, Arlington, United States.
Previous to that, he had won against Magomed Magomedkerimov at PFL 2021 #10 on 27th October 2021 by knockout in the 3rd round at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Las Vegas.
Going into that contest, he had beat Rory MacDonald at PFL 2021 #7 on 13th August 2021 by unanimous decision in their 3 round contest at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood.
Before that, he had defeated Nikolay Aleksakhin at PFL 2021 #5 on 17th June 2021 by unanimous decision in their 3 round contest at Ocean Casino Resort, Atlantic City.
He had won against Jason Ponet at PFL 2021 #2 on 29th April 2021 by unanimous decision in the 1st round at Ocean Casino Resort, Atlantic City.
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Cooper's last 5 fights had come over a period of 2 years, 10 months and 23 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 6 months and 30 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 13 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 2.6 rounds on average.
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