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Charles Jourdain vs.
Davey Grant

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

9-7-1 Charles Jourdain · UFC
9-7-0 Davey Grant · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

9-7-1
UFC record
9-7-0
Featherweight
Division (benchmark)
Bantamweight
30.7
AgeΔ 9.9 yrs
40.6
5'9"
HeightΔ 1"
5'8"
69"
ReachΔ 0"
69"
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
3.6
Layoff (months)Δ 0.2 mo
3.4
WWWLL
Last 5 (newest first)
WLWWL
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.

Charles Jourdain carries real power — 0.54 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.29 Featherweight norm.
Charles Jourdain rarely shoots — 0.38 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.19 Featherweight norm.
Davey Grant outworks the Bantamweight division — 5.58 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.52 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.

Charles Jourdain

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 97
Tier 3 — regional circuit 91

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.1 · 9 tier-1/2 wins · 15 finish wins over 27 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.2 wins over .500

Davey Grant

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 97
Tier 3 — regional circuit 91

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.0 · 9 tier-1/2 wins · 13 finish wins over 26 documented bouts

In the UFC: 4-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.1 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

10495.36/min · norm 3.54
Sig. strikes landed
10635.58/min · norm 3.52
8054.11/min · norm 3.47
Sig. strikes absorbed
7694.04/min · norm 3.58
49.4%norm 45.0%
Striking accuracy
45.5%norm 43.4%
56.8%norm 54.85%
Striking defense
54.8%norm 56.6%
70.54/15 · norm 0.29
Knockdowns
40.32/15 · norm 0.30

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

Charles Jourdain

Distance 82.7% (norm 85.7%) · Clinch 11.4% (norm 6.1%) · Ground 5.9% (norm 6.5%)

Davey Grant

Distance 92.8% (norm 87.4%) · Clinch 4.2% (norm 5.7%) · Ground 3.0% (norm 6.5%)

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

Charles Jourdain

Head 69.7% (norm 77.4%) · Body 20.1% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 10.2% (norm 7.8%)

Davey Grant

Head 63.2% (norm 77.4%) · Body 22.6% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 14.3% (norm 8.4%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Jourdain L/AAccFeatherweight med Grant L/AAccBantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 778 / 1755 44.3% 40.9% 951 / 2169 43.8% 39.0%
In the clinch 192 / 242 79.3% 70.8% 63 / 98 64.3% 68.7%
On the ground 79 / 125 63.2% 69.2% 49 / 70 70.0% 70.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 564 / 1478 38.2% 37.2% 429 / 1476 29.1% 34.9%
To the body 299 / 427 70.0% 68.2% 347 / 527 65.8% 66.8%
To the legs 186 / 217 85.7% 80.7% 287 / 334 85.9% 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 Jourdain L/AOpp accFeatherweight med vs Grant L/AOpp accBantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 671 / 1678 40.0% 39.2% 660 / 1534 43.0% 39.3%
In the clinch 100 / 134 74.6% 70.3% 54 / 74 73.0% 70.4%
On the ground 34 / 52 65.4% 69.4% 55 / 94 58.5% 72.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 482 / 1439 33.5% 35.9% 457 / 1272 35.9% 34.9%
To the body 177 / 261 67.8% 67.9% 183 / 281 65.1% 66.0%
To the legs 146 / 164 89.0% 81.5% 129 / 149 86.6% 79.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

521.7% acc · 0.38/15 · norm 1.19
Takedowns landed
1238.7% acc · 0.95/15 · norm 1.12
3147.0% def · norm 61.5%
Takedowns stopped
3065.2% def · norm 66.7%
22:4411.6% of cage time · norm 16.7%
Control time
22:5412.0% of cage time · norm 17.4%
37:242:51 per 15 · norm 3:12
Time under control
27:572:12 per 15 · norm 2:24
80.61/15 · norm 0.46
Submission attempts
20.16/15 · norm 0.28

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

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