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Alexa Grasso vs.
Tatiana Suarez

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

9-5-1 Alexa Grasso · UFC
9-1-0 Tatiana Suarez · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

9-5-1
UFC record
9-1-0
Women's Flyweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Strawweight
32
AgeΔ 3 yrs
35
5'5"
HeightΔ 0"
5'5"
66"
ReachΔ 0"
66"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
4.3
Layoff (months)Δ 0.5 mo
3.8
WLLDW
Last 5 (newest first)
WWLWW
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.

Tatiana Suarez hunts takedowns — 4.52 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.10 Women's Strawweight norm.
Tatiana Suarez owns the mat — in control 60% of cage time, vs a 19% Women's Strawweight norm.
Alexa Grasso is a submission threat — 0.67 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.32 Women's Flyweight 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.

Alexa Grasso

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 95
Tier 3 — regional circuit 70

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.2 · 9 tier-1/2 wins · 6 finish wins over 22 documented bouts

In the UFC: 6-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +3.5 wins over .500

Tatiana Suarez

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 91
Tier 3 — regional circuit 30

Tier-weighted record quality: 2.13 · 9 tier-1/2 wins · 8 finish wins over 13 documented bouts

In the UFC: 8-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +3.0 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

9214.11/min · norm 3.91
Sig. strikes landed
3232.86/min · norm 3.77
8313.71/min · norm 3.81
Sig. strikes absorbed
1841.63/min · norm 3.94
41.1%norm 44.9%
Striking accuracy
60.1%norm 44.5%
58.7%norm 55.95%
Striking defense
44.1%norm 54.4%
20.13/15 · norm 0.09
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.00

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

Alexa Grasso

Distance 89.7% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 8.5% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 1.7% (norm 4.9%)

Tatiana Suarez

Distance 49.0% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 11.7% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 39.3% (norm 5.0%)

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

Alexa Grasso

Head 76.6% (norm 78.1%) · Body 11.8% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 11.6% (norm 7.7%)

Tatiana Suarez

Head 60.7% (norm 76.4%) · Body 25.1% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 14.2% (norm 9.1%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Grasso L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med Suarez L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 750 / 2010 37.3% 39.9% 97 / 263 36.9% 38.3%
In the clinch 142 / 191 74.3% 73.3% 51 / 63 81.0% 72.6%
On the ground 29 / 39 74.4% 74.7% 175 / 211 82.9% 75.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 570 / 1716 33.2% 34.9% 163 / 326 50.0% 35.4%
To the body 174 / 264 65.9% 69.5% 97 / 135 71.9% 69.3%
To the legs 177 / 260 68.1% 82.6% 63 / 76 82.9% 77.9%

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 (Women's Flyweight: 46 fighters · Women's Strawweight: 63 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 Grasso L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med vs Suarez L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 709 / 1838 38.6% 38.8% 101 / 232 43.5% 39.7%
In the clinch 76 / 114 66.7% 74.1% 44 / 50 88.0% 71.5%
On the ground 46 / 61 75.4% 73.4% 39 / 47 83.0% 74.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 598 / 1692 35.3% 35.3% 113 / 222 50.9% 36.0%
To the body 145 / 210 69.0% 69.0% 51 / 74 68.9% 68.4%
To the legs 88 / 111 79.3% 78.7% 20 / 33 60.6% 79.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

635.3% acc · 0.40/15 · norm 1.02
Takedowns landed
3445.9% acc · 4.52/15 · norm 1.10
4054.8% def · norm 58.95%
Takedowns stopped
457.1% def · norm 64.1%
21:159.5% of cage time · norm 19.15%
Control time
67:1459.6% of cage time · norm 19.4%
54:073:37 per 15 · norm 3:03
Time under control
13:211:46 per 15 · norm 3:00
100.67/15 · norm 0.32
Submission attempts
50.66/15 · norm 0.29

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

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