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Amanda Lemos vs.
Leslie Smith

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

9-6-0 Amanda Lemos · UFC
4-3-0 Leslie Smith · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

9-6-0
UFC record
4-3-0
Women's Strawweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Bantamweight
39
AgeΔ 4 yrs
43
5'4"
HeightΔ 5"
5'9"
65"
ReachΔ 1"
66"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
4.8
Layoff (months)Δ 103.9 mo
108.7
LLWLW
Last 5 (newest first)
WWLWL
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.

Leslie Smith carries real power — 0.48 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.08 Women's Bantamweight norm.
Amanda Lemos is a submission threat — 0.74 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.29 Women's Strawweight norm.
Leslie Smith absorbs 8.41 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.51 Women's Bantamweight norm — hittable.
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.

Amanda Lemos

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 96
Tier 3 — regional circuit 60

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.18 · 9 tier-1/2 wins · 11 finish wins over 22 documented bouts

In the UFC: 8-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.9 wins over .500

Leslie Smith

Full career not yet synced for Leslie Smith — tier grading appears once their record documentation lands (refreshes weekly).

In the UFC: 0-0 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record -0.3 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

4452.75/min · norm 3.77
Sig. strikes landed
4777.56/min · norm 3.56
4873.01/min · norm 3.94
Sig. strikes absorbed
5318.41/min · norm 3.51
55.3%norm 44.5%
Striking accuracy
40.3%norm 46.65%
45.3%norm 54.4%
Striking defense
51.1%norm 52.45%
60.56/15 · norm 0.00
Knockdowns
20.48/15 · norm 0.08

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

Amanda Lemos

Distance 77.2% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 9.0% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 13.8% (norm 5.0%)

Leslie Smith

Distance 84.1% (norm 80.3%) · Clinch 14.5% (norm 9.7%) · Ground 1.4% (norm 7.5%)

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

Amanda Lemos

Head 76.0% (norm 76.4%) · Body 15.5% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 8.5% (norm 9.1%)

Leslie Smith

Head 84.9% (norm 75.2%) · Body 9.5% (norm 14.3%) · Legs 5.7% (norm 8.8%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Lemos L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med Smith L/AAccWomen's Bantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 308 / 621 49.6% 38.3% 354 / 995 35.6% 38.3%
In the clinch 58 / 72 80.6% 72.6% 116 / 171 67.8% 73.3%
On the ground 79 / 111 71.2% 75.0% 7 / 17 too few to rate 70.8%
BY TARGET
To the head 289 / 611 47.3% 35.4% 345 / 1004 34.4% 37.7%
To the body 94 / 125 75.2% 69.3% 73 / 112 65.2% 70.0%
To the legs 62 / 68 91.2% 77.9% 59 / 67 88.1% 80.9%

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 Strawweight: 63 fighters · Women's Bantamweight: 40 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 Lemos L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med vs Smith L/AOpp accWomen's Bantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 254 / 595 42.7% 39.7% 391 / 905 43.2% 41.3%
In the clinch 123 / 155 79.4% 71.5% 125 / 160 78.1% 74.7%
On the ground 110 / 141 78.0% 74.4% 15 / 20 too few to rate 74.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 282 / 602 46.8% 36.0% 341 / 857 39.8% 38.1%
To the body 119 / 163 73.0% 68.4% 91 / 119 76.5% 73.2%
To the legs 86 / 126 68.3% 79.1% 99 / 109 90.8% 80.9%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

1164.7% acc · 1.02/15 · norm 1.10
Takedowns landed
00.0% acc · 0.00/15 · norm 0.91
2963.0% def · norm 64.1%
Takedowns stopped
1062.5% def · norm 62.5%
27:5717.3% of cage time · norm 19.4%
Control time
3:566.2% of cage time · norm 26.55%
66:216:09 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
9:022:08 per 15 · norm 3:19
80.74/15 · norm 0.29
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.34

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

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