The lean is Padilla's 83% takedown defense against Hooper's grappling, plus Padilla's current win, not a claim Hooper's submission game is gone. The current win is the arm-triangle of Nasrat Haqparast at 4:59 of round 3. Hooper's current win is the one a same-day ESPN history page left off the record: a rear-naked choke of Mitch Ramirez at 2:15 of round 1. UFC.com lists Hooper at 17-5-1. ESPN id 4354421 printed 16-5-1 and began with Lance Gibson Jr. This page uses 17-5-1 and keeps Ramirez. The ninth career submission is that choke. ESPN's shorter split was 4 KO/TKO and 8 submissions.
What Hooper can take into the cage without a usable takedown percentage is the attempt rate, 2.50 per 15 minutes, and the submission-attempt rate, 2.16. The line that says 1 landed of 67 attempted contradicts the average, so it is not used. A 0 in the takedown-accuracy field is that rejection. Padilla's wrestling line is the mirror problem: 1.10 attempts per 15 minutes, 3 of 17 completed, and 83% of opponents' attempts listed as stuffed. If his own shots are the ones that hit the mat, they have usually missed. A miss is a scramble, and the scramble is where the Ramirez finish lived.
The other fight is the pocket. Padilla lands 6.67 significant strikes per minute at 54% accuracy, 455 of 836, with 51% striking defence, and he absorbs 4.85. Hooper lands 4.44 at 49%, 586 of 1,185, defends at 40%, and absorbs 2.97. The lower absorption is on the page, and so is the thinner defence. Both men are listed at 74 inches of reach. Hooper is four inches taller and a southpaw. An older site file had his reach at 75. Age on the snapshots used here is 30 and 26, with Tapology's near-31 note left on Padilla rather than treated as a second official age. No gym was supplied for Padilla. Hooper's ESPN team listing is Combat Sport and Fitness.
Three rounds put the two recent finishes at opposite ends of a short night. Ramirez was over in the first round. Haqparast lasted until the last second of the third, and the finish was a submission after the defence had kept the fight available. Gibson and Hernandez also ended Hooper's nights in round 1, by KO/TKO. Those names are not a power ranking against Padilla, and no shared opponent was supplied to make one. Tapology's #20 and #53 are listing ranks, not that bridge. Padilla's own window includes a majority draw with Manuel Mederos and a split decision over Jai Herbert, so the 9-6-3 career mix has not been a finish every time. If the back changes hands the way it did against Ramirez, Padilla falls toward 47%. If the takedown defence keeps the fight in the pocket where he finished Haqparast, he rises toward 66%. Hooper's complementary range is 34–53%.
