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Amir Sadollah vs.
Phil Baroni

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

6-5-0 Amir Sadollah · UFC
3-7-0 Phil Baroni · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

6-5-0
UFC record
3-7-0
Welterweight
Division (benchmark)
Middleweight
45
AgeΔ 5 yrs
50
5'10"
HeightΔ 1"
5'9"
75"
ReachΔ 3"
72"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
142.5
Layoff (months)Δ 44.6 mo
187.1
LLWLW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLLL
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.

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 1.27 Welterweight norm.
Amir Sadollah outworks the Welterweight division — 4.71 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.17 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.

Amir Sadollah

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

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

Phil Baroni

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

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

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

6214.71/min · norm 3.17
Sig. strikes landed
2532.62/min · norm 3.25
4693.55/min · norm 3.06
Sig. strikes absorbed
3964.10/min · norm 3.20
46.5%norm 44.9%
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 81.2%) · Clinch 17.4% (norm 9.4%) · Ground 6.4% (norm 8.1%)

Phil Baroni

Distance 48.0% (norm 79.4%) · Clinch 29.5% (norm 9.1%) · Ground 22.5% (norm 10.3%)

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

Amir Sadollah

Head 65.4% (norm 78.2%) · Body 19.2% (norm 12.4%) · Legs 15.3% (norm 8.4%)

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% 38.6% 74 / 246 30.1% 40.5%
In the clinch 149 / 232 64.2% 67.8% 94 / 151 62.3% 70.3%
On the ground 52 / 85 61.2% 67.2% 85 / 115 73.9% 69.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 286 / 874 32.7% 37.2% 162 / 408 39.7% 38.9%
To the body 162 / 257 63.0% 70.7% 87 / 98 88.8% 71.7%
To the legs 173 / 205 84.4% 82.9% 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: 182 fighters · Middleweight: 174 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% 39.0% 157 / 305 51.5% 39.5%
In the clinch 89 / 153 58.2% 68.9% 142 / 199 71.4% 70.9%
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% 82.1% 63 / 69 91.3% 82.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

527.8% acc · 0.57/15 · norm 1.27
Takedowns landed
844.4% acc · 1.24/15 · norm 1.42
3160.8% def · norm 63.9%
Takedowns stopped
3166.0% def · norm 63.1%
18:2213.9% of cage time · norm 18.5%
Control time
24:3025.4% of cage time · norm 19.75%
50:085:41 per 15 · norm 3:15
Time under control
39:436:09 per 15 · norm 3:00
30.34/15 · norm 0.45
Submission attempts
30.47/15 · norm 0.47

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

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