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Amanda Ribas vs.
Viviane Araujo

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

7-6-0 Amanda Ribas · UFC
7-6-0 Viviane Araujo · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

7-6-0
UFC record
7-6-0
Women's Strawweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Flyweight
32.9
AgeΔ 6.8 yrs
39.7
5'4"
HeightΔ 0"
5'4"
66"
ReachΔ 2"
68"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
12.4
Layoff (months)Δ 0.9 mo
13.3
LLLWL
Last 5 (newest first)
LWLWL
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.

Amanda Ribas is a submission threat — 0.56 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.29 Women's Strawweight norm.
Viviane Araujo is a submission threat — 0.60 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.32 Women's Flyweight norm.
Amanda Ribas hunts takedowns — 2.05 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.10 Women's Strawweight 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.

Amanda Ribas

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 76
Tier 3 — regional circuit 61

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.84 · 7 tier-1/2 wins · 8 finish wins over 20 documented bouts

In the UFC: 6-6 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.6 wins over .500

Viviane Araujo

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 87
Tier 3 — regional circuit 61

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.86 · 8 tier-1/2 wins · 7 finish wins over 22 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.0 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

6864.26/min · norm 3.77
Sig. strikes landed
7723.84/min · norm 3.91
5303.29/min · norm 3.94
Sig. strikes absorbed
9704.83/min · norm 3.81
40.0%norm 44.5%
Striking accuracy
47.5%norm 44.9%
60.2%norm 54.4%
Striking defense
55.9%norm 55.95%
10.09/15 · norm 0.00
Knockdowns
10.07/15 · norm 0.09

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

Amanda Ribas

Distance 91.6% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 3.1% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 5.3% (norm 5.0%)

Viviane Araujo

Distance 96.2% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 1.4% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 2.3% (norm 4.9%)

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

Amanda Ribas

Head 76.6% (norm 76.4%) · Body 12.9% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 10.4% (norm 9.1%)

Viviane Araujo

Head 85.1% (norm 78.1%) · Body 8.8% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 6.1% (norm 7.7%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Ribas L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med Araujo L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 589 / 1573 37.4% 38.3% 730 / 1565 46.6% 39.9%
In the clinch 36 / 53 67.9% 72.6% 17 / 23 too few to rate 73.3%
On the ground 61 / 91 67.0% 75.0% 25 / 38 65.8% 74.7%
BY TARGET
To the head 421 / 1316 32.0% 35.4% 571 / 1384 41.3% 34.9%
To the body 123 / 222 55.4% 69.3% 112 / 143 78.3% 69.5%
To the legs 142 / 179 79.3% 77.9% 89 / 99 89.9% 82.6%

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 Flyweight: 46 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 Ribas L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med vs Araujo L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 413 / 1180 35.0% 39.7% 841 / 2025 41.5% 38.8%
In the clinch 43 / 60 71.7% 71.5% 69 / 101 68.3% 74.1%
On the ground 74 / 90 82.2% 74.4% 60 / 74 81.1% 73.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 369 / 1074 34.4% 36.0% 623 / 1723 36.2% 35.3%
To the body 108 / 191 56.5% 68.4% 183 / 282 64.9% 69.0%
To the legs 53 / 65 81.5% 79.1% 164 / 195 84.1% 78.7%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

2252.4% acc · 2.05/15 · norm 1.10
Takedowns landed
2343.4% acc · 1.72/15 · norm 1.02
2882.4% def · norm 64.1%
Takedowns stopped
3075.0% def · norm 58.95%
43:0026.7% of cage time · norm 19.4%
Control time
41:4220.8% of cage time · norm 19.15%
24:442:18 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
27:482:04 per 15 · norm 3:03
60.56/15 · norm 0.29
Submission attempts
80.60/15 · norm 0.32

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

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