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Aleksandar Rakic vs.
Marcin Tybura

Two full careers, measured against each man's own division and against each other — the tape, the read, and every number behind them.

7-5-0 Aleksandar Rakic · UFC
14-11-0 Marcin Tybura · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

Frame, age, layoff and recent form — green marks the edge on each line.

7-5-0
UFC record
14-11-0
Light Heavyweight
Division (benchmark)
Heavyweight
34.5
AgeΔ 6.2 yrs
40.7
6'4"
HeightΔ 1"
6'3"
78"
ReachΔ 0"
78"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
0.1
Layoff (months)Δ 0 mo
0.1
WLLLL
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLWW
The read

What the numbers say.

Scouting notes, auto-generated — only stats deviating more than 25% from the division median make this list. No narratives, just deviations.

Aleksandar Rakic owns the mat — in control 30% of cage time, vs a 16% Light Heavyweight norm.
Marcin Tybura owns the mat — in control 27% of cage time, vs a 17% Heavyweight norm.
Aleksandar Rakic rarely shoots — 0.57 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.87 Light Heavyweight norm.
Level of competition

Who did they actually beat?

Full-career records re-graded by the tier of opposition — the same grading the Contender Series pick model uses. Records built on tier-4 competition are worth less than records built on killers.

Aleksandar Rakic

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 75
Tier 3 — regional circuit 81

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.99 · 7 tier-1/2 wins · 10 finish wins over 21 documented bouts

In the UFC: 7-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +3.5 wins over .500

Marcin Tybura

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 1411
Tier 3 — regional circuit 121

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.0 · 14 tier-1/2 wins · 16 finish wins over 38 documented bouts

In the UFC: 9-8 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.1 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

Career totals; norms are the medians of each man's own division.

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

5564.20/min · norm 3.41
Sig. strikes landed
9753.49/min · norm 3.36
3692.78/min · norm 3.35
Sig. strikes absorbed
9323.34/min · norm 3.19
50.5%norm 48.3%
Striking accuracy
46.8%norm 47.8%
54.8%norm 52.9%
Striking defense
54.7%norm 52.5%
40.45/15 · norm 0.40
Knockdowns
10.05/15 · norm 0.28

Where the fight happens (share of sig. strike attempts)

Aleksandar Rakic

Distance 80.5% (norm 80.5%) · Clinch 5.8% (norm 8.6%) · Ground 13.6% (norm 10.4%)

Marcin Tybura

Distance 80.2% (norm 79.5%) · Clinch 6.9% (norm 9.8%) · Ground 12.9% (norm 9.3%)

What they throw (share of sig. strike attempts by target)

Aleksandar Rakic

Head 67.7% (norm 79.2%) · Body 12.2% (norm 11.7%) · Legs 20.1% (norm 9.7%)

Marcin Tybura

Head 77.4% (norm 79.2%) · Body 15.5% (norm 11.5%) · Legs 7.1% (norm 7.6%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

Green ≥ division median, red below. UFCStats tracks position and target as separate splits.

Zone Rakic L/AAccLight Heavyweight med Tybura L/AAccHeavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 389 / 886 43.9% 41.4% 677 / 1670 40.5% 40.1%
In the clinch 52 / 64 81.2% 70.9% 96 / 144 66.7% 70.6%
On the ground 115 / 150 76.7% 72.3% 202 / 269 75.1% 70.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 282 / 745 37.9% 38.9% 629 / 1613 39.0% 38.9%
To the body 103 / 134 76.9% 71.9% 216 / 322 67.1% 76.8%
To the legs 171 / 221 77.4% 81.8% 130 / 148 87.8% 87.8%

Zones with fewer than 25 attempts are marked "too few to rate". Each fighter is measured against the median of leaderboard-eligible fighters in his own division (Light Heavyweight: 93 fighters · Heavyweight: 93 fighters).

What lands on them Opponents' accuracy against each man

Green ≤ division median — harder to hit than the typical man in his division.

Zone vs Rakic L/AOpp accLight Heavyweight med vs Tybura L/AOpp accHeavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 284 / 704 40.3% 40.4% 711 / 1754 40.5% 40.7%
In the clinch 56 / 73 76.7% 68.7% 150 / 195 76.9% 70.6%
On the ground 29 / 40 72.5% 70.4% 71 / 109 65.1% 72.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 188 / 557 33.8% 37.5% 639 / 1710 37.4% 38.8%
To the body 83 / 145 57.2% 72.3% 181 / 220 82.3% 75.1%
To the legs 98 / 115 85.2% 83.0% 112 / 128 87.5% 84.4%
Grappling

The ground war.

Takedowns, control and submissions — career totals with each man's per-minute rates against his division norm.

521.7% acc · 0.57/15 · norm 0.87
Takedowns landed
2332.4% acc · 1.23/15 · norm 0.95
2087.0% def · norm 66.7%
Takedowns stopped
2970.7% def · norm 64.3%
40:2730.5% of cage time · norm 16.5%
Control time
75:3027.0% of cage time · norm 17.2%
5:450:39 per 15 · norm 2:48
Time under control
44:102:22 per 15 · norm 2:28
10.11/15 · norm 0.27
Submission attempts
20.11/15 · norm 0.16

Bars compare the two men's rates (per-minute / per-15 figures), not raw totals — Tybura has more cage time on record.

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