Fighters under 28 back within six months won 57% of their bouts; fighters 36 and over back within six months won 42%. In every age band, fighters returning after more than a year won less often than fighters back within six months.
Correlation is not causation. Long breaks are often caused by injury, age or a lost contract, and any of those could explain the result as well as time away itself.
Descriptive only. This page describes past UFC results; it is not a forecast.
Age is on fight night, in completed years. Bands are as given in the source data and do not overlap. Each figure counts one fighter’s side of a bout.
win rate · the thin line marks an even split · small sample