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Bec Rawlings vs.
Ashlee Evans-Smith

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

2-5-0 Bec Rawlings · UFC
3-6-0 Ashlee Evans-Smith · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

2-5-0
UFC record
3-6-0
Women's Strawweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Bantamweight
37.5
AgeΔ 1.6 yrs
39.1
5'6"
HeightΔ 2"
5'8"
64"
ReachΔ 3"
67"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
100
Layoff (months)Δ 63.3 mo
36.7
LLLLW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLWL
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.

Bec Rawlings absorbs 5.66 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.94 Women's Strawweight norm — hittable.
Ashlee Evans-Smith is wasteful with head shots — only 23% land, vs a 38% Women's Bantamweight norm.
Bec Rawlings rarely shoots — 0.71 takedowns 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.

Bec Rawlings

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

In the UFC: 0-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.3 wins over .500

Ashlee Evans-Smith

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

In the UFC: 1-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record -0.1 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

3784.48/min · norm 3.77
Sig. strikes landed
4464.03/min · norm 3.56
4785.66/min · norm 3.94
Sig. strikes absorbed
5084.59/min · norm 3.51
42.8%norm 44.5%
Striking accuracy
34.1%norm 46.65%
57.3%norm 54.4%
Striking defense
53.9%norm 52.45%
00.00/15 · norm 0.00
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.08

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

Bec Rawlings

Distance 86.3% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 10.9% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 2.8% (norm 5.0%)

Ashlee Evans-Smith

Distance 85.8% (norm 80.3%) · Clinch 10.2% (norm 9.7%) · Ground 4.0% (norm 7.5%)

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

Bec Rawlings

Head 81.5% (norm 76.4%) · Body 12.5% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 6.0% (norm 9.1%)

Ashlee Evans-Smith

Head 75.9% (norm 75.2%) · Body 16.3% (norm 14.3%) · Legs 7.9% (norm 8.8%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Rawlings L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med Evans-Smith L/AAccWomen's Bantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 293 / 762 38.5% 38.3% 309 / 1123 27.5% 38.3%
In the clinch 65 / 96 67.7% 72.6% 98 / 134 73.1% 73.3%
On the ground 20 / 25 80.0% 75.0% 39 / 52 75.0% 70.8%
BY TARGET
To the head 263 / 720 36.5% 35.4% 229 / 993 23.1% 37.7%
To the body 67 / 110 60.9% 69.3% 135 / 213 63.4% 70.0%
To the legs 48 / 53 90.6% 77.9% 82 / 103 79.6% 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 Rawlings L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med vs Evans-Smith L/AOpp accWomen's Bantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 393 / 997 39.4% 39.7% 376 / 904 41.6% 41.3%
In the clinch 57 / 86 66.3% 71.5% 78 / 120 65.0% 74.7%
On the ground 28 / 37 75.7% 74.4% 54 / 77 70.1% 74.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 301 / 866 34.8% 36.0% 319 / 871 36.6% 38.1%
To the body 97 / 152 63.8% 68.4% 95 / 125 76.0% 73.2%
To the legs 80 / 102 78.4% 79.1% 94 / 105 89.5% 80.9%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

440.0% acc · 0.71/15 · norm 1.10
Takedowns landed
722.6% acc · 0.95/15 · norm 0.91
1368.4% def · norm 64.1%
Takedowns stopped
1550.0% def · norm 62.5%
12:3714.9% of cage time · norm 19.4%
Control time
13:3012.2% of cage time · norm 26.55%
20:043:33 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
24:463:21 per 15 · norm 3:19
20.36/15 · 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 — Evans-Smith has more cage time on record.

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