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Bharat Kandare vs.
Song Yadong

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

0-1-0 Bharat Kandare · UFC
12-4-1 Song Yadong · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

0-1-0
UFC record
12-4-1
Featherweight
Division (benchmark)
Bantamweight
39.1
AgeΔ 10.4 yrs
28.7
5'7"
HeightΔ 1"
5'8"
72"
ReachΔ 5"
67"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
104.3
Layoff (months)Δ 102.1 mo
2.2
L
Last 5 (newest first)
WLWLW
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.

Bharat Kandare rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.19 Featherweight norm.
Bharat Kandare is wasteful with strikes at range — only 10% land, vs a 41% Featherweight norm.
Song Yadong carries real power — 0.48 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.30 Bantamweight 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.

Bharat Kandare

Full career not yet synced for Bharat Kandare — 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 +0.0 wins over .500

Song Yadong

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 125
Tier 3 — regional circuit 114

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.04 · 12 tier-1/2 wins · 13 finish wins over 34 documented bouts

In the UFC: 8-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +3.6 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

30.70/min · norm 3.54
Sig. strikes landed
9584.34/min · norm 3.52
81.88/min · norm 3.47
Sig. strikes absorbed
8423.81/min · norm 3.58
10.0%norm 45.0%
Striking accuracy
43.7%norm 43.4%
72.4%norm 54.85%
Striking defense
55.0%norm 56.6%
00.00/15 · norm 0.29
Knockdowns
70.48/15 · norm 0.30

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

Bharat Kandare

Distance 100.0% (norm 85.7%) · Clinch 0.0% (norm 6.1%) · Ground 0.0% (norm 6.5%)

Song Yadong

Distance 91.5% (norm 87.4%) · Clinch 3.6% (norm 5.7%) · Ground 4.9% (norm 6.5%)

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

Bharat Kandare

Head 73.3% (norm 77.4%) · Body 0.0% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 26.7% (norm 7.8%)

Song Yadong

Head 76.6% (norm 77.4%) · Body 12.4% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 11.0% (norm 8.4%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Kandare L/AAccFeatherweight med Yadong L/AAccBantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 3 / 30 10.0% 40.9% 824 / 2007 41.1% 39.0%
In the clinch 0 / 0 too few to rate 70.8% 57 / 79 72.2% 68.7%
On the ground 0 / 0 too few to rate 69.2% 77 / 108 71.3% 70.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 1 / 22 too few to rate 37.2% 587 / 1681 34.9% 34.9%
To the body 0 / 0 too few to rate 68.2% 182 / 272 66.9% 66.8%
To the legs 2 / 8 too few to rate 80.7% 189 / 241 78.4% 79.4%

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 (Featherweight: 126 fighters · Bantamweight: 117 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 Kandare L/AOpp accFeatherweight med vs Yadong L/AOpp accBantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 7 / 27 25.9% 39.2% 763 / 1771 43.1% 39.3%
In the clinch 0 / 0 too few to rate 70.3% 38 / 52 73.1% 70.4%
On the ground 1 / 2 too few to rate 69.4% 41 / 50 82.0% 72.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 6 / 23 too few to rate 35.9% 485 / 1383 35.1% 34.9%
To the body 1 / 3 too few to rate 67.9% 172 / 263 65.4% 66.0%
To the legs 1 / 3 too few to rate 81.5% 185 / 227 81.5% 79.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

00.0% acc · 0.00/15 · norm 1.19
Takedowns landed
1241.4% acc · 0.81/15 · norm 1.12
0— def · norm 61.5%
Takedowns stopped
4873.8% def · norm 66.7%
0:000.0% of cage time · norm 16.7%
Control time
29:2713.3% of cage time · norm 17.4%
0:080:28 per 15 · norm 3:12
Time under control
19:111:18 per 15 · norm 2:24
00.00/15 · norm 0.46
Submission attempts
30.20/15 · norm 0.28

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

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