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Charles Jourdain vs.
Kyler Phillips

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
6-4-0 Kyler Phillips · 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
6-4-0
Featherweight
Division (benchmark)
Bantamweight
30.7
AgeΔ 0.5 yrs
31.2
5'9"
HeightΔ 1"
5'8"
69"
ReachΔ 3"
72"
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
3.6
Layoff (months)Δ 0 mo
3.6
WWWLL
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLWW
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.

Kyler Phillips hunts takedowns — 2.84 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.12 Bantamweight norm.
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.
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

Kyler Phillips

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 74
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 20
Tier 3 — regional circuit 31

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.27 · 9 tier-1/2 wins · 7 finish wins over 17 documented bouts

In the UFC: 3-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.5 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
6434.68/min · norm 3.52
8054.11/min · norm 3.47
Sig. strikes absorbed
5283.84/min · norm 3.58
49.4%norm 45.0%
Striking accuracy
42.9%norm 43.4%
56.8%norm 54.85%
Striking defense
59.0%norm 56.6%
70.54/15 · norm 0.29
Knockdowns
20.22/15 · 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%)

Kyler Phillips

Distance 88.3% (norm 87.4%) · Clinch 3.6% (norm 5.7%) · Ground 8.1% (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%)

Kyler Phillips

Head 81.8% (norm 77.4%) · Body 11.3% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 6.9% (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 Phillips L/AAccBantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 778 / 1755 44.3% 40.9% 519 / 1324 39.2% 39.0%
In the clinch 192 / 242 79.3% 70.8% 38 / 54 70.4% 68.7%
On the ground 79 / 125 63.2% 69.2% 86 / 121 71.1% 70.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 564 / 1478 38.2% 37.2% 434 / 1226 35.4% 34.9%
To the body 299 / 427 70.0% 68.2% 118 / 169 69.8% 66.8%
To the legs 186 / 217 85.7% 80.7% 91 / 104 87.5% 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 Phillips L/AOpp accBantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 671 / 1678 40.0% 39.2% 461 / 1187 38.8% 39.3%
In the clinch 100 / 134 74.6% 70.3% 47 / 66 71.2% 70.4%
On the ground 34 / 52 65.4% 69.4% 20 / 34 58.8% 72.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 482 / 1439 33.5% 35.9% 307 / 975 31.5% 34.9%
To the body 177 / 261 67.8% 67.9% 146 / 223 65.5% 66.0%
To the legs 146 / 164 89.0% 81.5% 75 / 89 84.3% 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
2647.3% acc · 2.84/15 · norm 1.12
3147.0% def · norm 61.5%
Takedowns stopped
3075.0% def · norm 66.7%
22:4411.6% of cage time · norm 16.7%
Control time
28:2120.6% of cage time · norm 17.4%
37:242:51 per 15 · norm 3:12
Time under control
13:451:29 per 15 · norm 2:24
80.61/15 · norm 0.46
Submission attempts
30.33/15 · 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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