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Bruna Brasil vs.
Wang Cong

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 Bruna Brasil · UFC
5-1-0 Wang Cong · 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
5-1-0
Women's Strawweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Flyweight
32.9
AgeΔ 1.3 yrs
34.2
5'6"
HeightΔ 0"
5'6"
65"
ReachΔ 1"
66"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
4.3
Layoff (months)Δ 3.4 mo
0.9
LLLWL
Last 5 (newest first)
WWWWL
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.

Wang Cong carries real power — 0.64 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.09 Women's Flyweight norm.
Wang Cong outworks the Women's Flyweight division — 6.84 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.91 norm.
Bruna Brasil is accurate with strikes at range — lands 52%, vs a 38% 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.

Bruna Brasil

Full career not yet synced for Bruna Brasil — 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 +0.7 wins over .500

Wang Cong

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 51
Tier 3 — regional circuit 50

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.55 · 5 tier-1/2 wins · 4 finish wins over 11 documented bouts

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

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

2422.48/min · norm 3.77
Sig. strikes landed
4786.84/min · norm 3.91
4074.17/min · norm 3.94
Sig. strikes absorbed
1972.82/min · norm 3.81
56.4%norm 44.5%
Striking accuracy
57.9%norm 44.9%
49.4%norm 54.4%
Striking defense
60.4%norm 55.95%
00.00/15 · norm 0.00
Knockdowns
30.64/15 · norm 0.09

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

Bruna Brasil

Distance 84.8% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 11.9% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 3.3% (norm 5.0%)

Wang Cong

Distance 93.0% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 4.4% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 2.7% (norm 4.9%)

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

Bruna Brasil

Head 57.1% (norm 76.4%) · Body 29.4% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 13.5% (norm 9.1%)

Wang Cong

Head 61.5% (norm 78.1%) · Body 18.5% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 20.0% (norm 7.7%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Brasil L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med Cong L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 188 / 364 51.6% 38.3% 434 / 768 56.5% 39.9%
In the clinch 45 / 51 88.2% 72.6% 29 / 36 80.6% 73.3%
On the ground 9 / 14 too few to rate 75.0% 15 / 22 too few to rate 74.7%
BY TARGET
To the head 100 / 245 40.8% 35.4% 225 / 508 44.3% 34.9%
To the body 98 / 126 77.8% 69.3% 114 / 153 74.5% 69.5%
To the legs 44 / 58 75.9% 77.9% 139 / 165 84.2% 82.6%

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 Flyweight: 46 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 Brasil L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med vs Cong L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 326 / 691 47.2% 39.7% 181 / 472 38.3% 38.8%
In the clinch 47 / 62 75.8% 71.5% 16 / 23 too few to rate 74.1%
On the ground 34 / 52 65.4% 74.4% 0 / 3 too few to rate 73.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 172 / 464 37.1% 36.0% 115 / 368 31.2% 35.3%
To the body 125 / 190 65.8% 68.4% 46 / 78 59.0% 69.0%
To the legs 110 / 151 72.8% 79.1% 36 / 52 69.2% 78.7%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

746.7% acc · 1.07/15 · norm 1.10
Takedowns landed
266.7% acc · 0.43/15 · norm 1.02
2057.1% def · norm 64.1%
Takedowns stopped
2485.7% def · norm 58.95%
13:2513.7% of cage time · norm 19.4%
Control time
4:547.0% of cage time · norm 19.15%
27:044:09 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
9:081:57 per 15 · norm 3:03
00.00/15 · norm 0.29
Submission attempts
10.21/15 · norm 0.32

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

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