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Bharat Kandare vs. Song Yadong

UFC 0-1-0 vs. 13-4-1

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
0-1-0
UFC record
13-4-1
Featherweight
Division (benchmark)
Bantamweight
39
AgeΔ 11 yrs
28
5'7"
HeightΔ 1"
5'8"
72"
ReachΔ 5"
67"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
106.8
Layoff (months)Δ 105.1 mo
1.7
L
Last 5 (newest first)
WWLWL

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
Bharat Kandare rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.17 Featherweight norm.
Song Yadong carries real power — 0.53 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.29 Bantamweight norm.
Bharat Kandare is wasteful with strikes at range — only 10% land, vs a 40% Featherweight norm.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

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: 9-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +3.8 wins over .500

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

30.70/min · norm 3.52
Sig. strikes landed
9694.26/min · norm 3.52
81.88/min · norm 3.50
Sig. strikes absorbed lower is better
8553.76/min · norm 3.58
10.0%norm 44.7%
Striking accuracy
43.7%norm 43.5%
72.4%norm 54.8%
Striking defense
54.9%norm 56.6%
00.00/15 · norm 0.29
Knockdowns
80.53/15 · norm 0.29

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

Bharat Kandare

Distance 100.0% (norm 85.9%) · Clinch 0.0% (norm 6.0%) · Ground 0.0% (norm 6.5%)

Song Yadong

Distance 91.4% (norm 87.4%) · Clinch 3.6% (norm 6.2%) · Ground 5.0% (norm 6.4%)

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

Bharat Kandare

Head 73.3% (norm 77.5%) · Body 0.0% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 26.7% (norm 7.9%)

Song Yadong

Head 76.5% (norm 77.5%) · Body 12.4% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 11.1% (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 Song L/AAccBantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 3 / 30 10.0% 40.5% 833 / 2027 41.1% 39.2%
In the clinch 0 / 0 too few to rate 70.5% 57 / 79 72.2% 69.0%
On the ground 0 / 0 too few to rate 69.3% 79 / 111 71.2% 70.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 1 / 22 too few to rate 37.1% 592 / 1696 34.9% 35.3%
To the body 0 / 0 too few to rate 68.0% 185 / 275 67.3% 66.9%
To the legs 2 / 8 too few to rate 80.3% 192 / 246 78.0% 79.2%

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: 127 fighters · Bantamweight: 121 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 Song L/AOpp accBantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 7 / 27 25.9% 39.3% 776 / 1792 43.3% 39.4%
In the clinch 0 / 0 too few to rate 70.3% 38 / 52 73.1% 70.6%
On the ground 1 / 2 too few to rate 69.4% 41 / 50 82.0% 72.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 6 / 23 too few to rate 35.9% 492 / 1397 35.2% 34.9%
To the body 1 / 3 too few to rate 68.0% 172 / 263 65.4% 66.1%
To the legs 1 / 3 too few to rate 81.5% 191 / 234 81.6% 78.8%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
00.0% acc · 0.00/15 · norm 1.17
Takedowns landed
1241.4% acc · 0.79/15 · norm 1.12
0— def · norm 61.5%
Takedowns stopped
5073.5% def · norm 65.7%
0:000.0% of cage time · norm 16.5%
Control time
29:2913.0% of cage time · norm 17.8%
0:080:28 per 15 · norm 3:11
Time under control lower is better
21:091:23 per 15 · norm 2:24
00.00/15 · norm 0.45
Submission attempts
40.26/15 · norm 0.28

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