Skip to content

Casey Kenney vs. Nathaniel Wood

UFC 5-3-0 vs. 11-4-0

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
5-3-0
UFC record
11-4-0
Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Featherweight
35
AgeΔ 2 yrs
33
5'7"
HeightΔ 1"
5'6"
68"
ReachΔ 1"
69"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
62.4
Layoff (months)Δ 60.9 mo
1.5
LLWWW
Last 5 (newest first)
LWWWW

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
Nathaniel Wood outworks the Featherweight division — 5.36 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.52 norm.
Nathaniel Wood carries real power — 0.44 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.29 Featherweight norm.
Casey Kenney outworks the Bantamweight division — 4.96 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.52 norm.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Casey Kenney

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 64
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 40
Tier 3 — regional circuit 60

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.26 · 10 tier-1/2 wins · 7 finish wins over 21 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.2 wins over .500

Nathaniel Wood

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 123
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 50
Tier 3 — regional circuit 63

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.34 · 17 tier-1/2 wins · 13 finish wins over 29 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.9 wins over .500

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

5364.96/min · norm 3.52
Sig. strikes landed
10975.36/min · norm 3.52
5224.83/min · norm 3.58
Sig. strikes absorbed lower is better
8564.19/min · norm 3.50
45.3%norm 43.5%
Striking accuracy
50.4%norm 44.7%
58.9%norm 56.6%
Striking defense
54.4%norm 54.8%
00.00/15 · norm 0.29
Knockdowns
60.44/15 · norm 0.29

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

Casey Kenney

Distance 94.3% (norm 87.4%) · Clinch 4.2% (norm 6.2%) · Ground 1.5% (norm 6.4%)

Nathaniel Wood

Distance 90.5% (norm 85.9%) · Clinch 4.0% (norm 6.0%) · Ground 5.5% (norm 6.5%)

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

Casey Kenney

Head 72.6% (norm 77.5%) · Body 16.6% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 10.8% (norm 8.4%)

Nathaniel Wood

Head 69.2% (norm 77.5%) · Body 9.0% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 21.8% (norm 7.9%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Kenney L/AAccBantamweight med Wood L/AAccFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 484 / 1116 43.4% 39.2% 955 / 1971 48.5% 40.5%
In the clinch 36 / 50 72.0% 69.0% 60 / 86 69.8% 70.5%
On the ground 16 / 18 too few to rate 70.2% 82 / 120 68.3% 69.3%
BY TARGET
To the head 284 / 859 33.1% 35.3% 606 / 1506 40.2% 37.1%
To the body 140 / 197 71.1% 66.9% 119 / 197 60.4% 68.0%
To the legs 112 / 128 87.5% 79.2% 372 / 474 78.5% 80.3%

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 (Bantamweight: 121 fighters · Featherweight: 127 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 Kenney L/AOpp accBantamweight med vs Wood L/AOpp accFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 458 / 1189 38.5% 39.4% 699 / 1675 41.7% 39.3%
In the clinch 36 / 46 78.3% 70.6% 93 / 117 79.5% 70.3%
On the ground 28 / 34 82.4% 72.1% 64 / 84 76.2% 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 284 / 948 30.0% 34.9% 551 / 1471 37.5% 35.9%
To the body 122 / 194 62.9% 66.1% 181 / 256 70.7% 68.0%
To the legs 116 / 127 91.3% 78.8% 124 / 149 83.2% 81.5%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
736.8% acc · 0.97/15 · norm 1.12
Takedowns landed
1748.6% acc · 1.25/15 · norm 1.17
3055.6% def · norm 65.7%
Takedowns stopped
4875.0% def · norm 61.5%
14:1913.3% of cage time · norm 17.8%
Control time
28:2213.9% of cage time · norm 16.5%
20:492:53 per 15 · norm 2:24
Time under control lower is better
32:542:24 per 15 · norm 3:11
20.28/15 · norm 0.28
Submission attempts
60.44/15 · norm 0.45

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