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Amir Sadollah vs. Phil Baroni

UFC 6-5-0 vs. 3-7-0

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
6-5-0
UFC record
3-7-0
Welterweight
Division (benchmark)
Middleweight
46
AgeΔ 4 yrs
50
5'10"
HeightΔ 1"
5'9"
75"
ReachΔ 3"
72"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
145
Layoff (months)Δ 44.6 mo
189.6
LLWLW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLLL

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
Phil Baroni carries real power — 0.78 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.32 Middleweight norm.
Amir Sadollah rarely shoots — 0.57 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.31 Welterweight norm.
Amir Sadollah outworks the Welterweight division — 4.71 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.17 norm.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Amir Sadollah

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 65

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.93 · 6 tier-1/2 wins · 2 finish wins over 11 documented bouts

In the UFC: 2-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.1 wins over .500

Phil Baroni

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 410
Tier 3 — regional circuit 129

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.01 · 4 tier-1/2 wins · 13 finish wins over 35 documented bouts

In the UFC: 1-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.6 wins over .500

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

6214.71/min · norm 3.17
Sig. strikes landed
2532.62/min · norm 3.23
4693.55/min · norm 3.08
Sig. strikes absorbed lower is better
3964.10/min · norm 3.20
46.5%norm 44.75%
Striking accuracy
49.4%norm 47.4%
60.7%norm 55.25%
Striking defense
37.4%norm 53.8%
00.00/15 · norm 0.38
Knockdowns
50.78/15 · norm 0.32

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

Amir Sadollah

Distance 76.3% (norm 80.7%) · Clinch 17.4% (norm 9.6%) · Ground 6.4% (norm 8.1%)

Phil Baroni

Distance 48.0% (norm 79.5%) · Clinch 29.5% (norm 9.0%) · Ground 22.5% (norm 10.0%)

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

Amir Sadollah

Head 65.4% (norm 78.3%) · Body 19.2% (norm 12.4%) · Legs 15.3% (norm 8.0%)

Phil Baroni

Head 79.7% (norm 78.0%) · Body 19.1% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 1.2% (norm 8.4%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Sadollah L/AAccWelterweight med Baroni L/AAccMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 420 / 1019 41.2% 38.5% 74 / 246 30.1% 40.5%
In the clinch 149 / 232 64.2% 67.8% 94 / 151 62.3% 70.6%
On the ground 52 / 85 61.2% 67.0% 85 / 115 73.9% 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 286 / 874 32.7% 36.4% 162 / 408 39.7% 38.8%
To the body 162 / 257 63.0% 70.7% 87 / 98 88.8% 71.6%
To the legs 173 / 205 84.4% 83.0% 4 / 6 too few to rate 83.3%

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 (Welterweight: 180 fighters · Middleweight: 178 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 Sadollah L/AOpp accWelterweight med vs Baroni L/AOpp accMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 303 / 900 33.7% 39.1% 157 / 305 51.5% 39.5%
In the clinch 89 / 153 58.2% 68.9% 142 / 199 71.4% 70.4%
On the ground 77 / 140 55.0% 68.0% 97 / 129 75.2% 69.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 361 / 1033 34.9% 35.6% 236 / 442 53.4% 37.9%
To the body 64 / 111 57.7% 69.6% 97 / 122 79.5% 71.3%
To the legs 44 / 49 89.8% 82.2% 63 / 69 91.3% 82.1%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
527.8% acc · 0.57/15 · norm 1.31
Takedowns landed
844.4% acc · 1.24/15 · norm 1.35
3160.8% def · norm 63.9%
Takedowns stopped
3166.0% def · norm 63.3%
18:2213.9% of cage time · norm 18.5%
Control time
24:3025.4% of cage time · norm 19.4%
50:085:41 per 15 · norm 3:15
Time under control lower is better
39:436:09 per 15 · norm 3:00
30.34/15 · norm 0.44
Submission attempts
30.47/15 · norm 0.45

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