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Chase Hooper vs.
Felipe Colares

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

9-5-0 Chase Hooper · UFC
2-4-0 Felipe Colares · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

9-5-0
UFC record
2-4-0
Lightweight
Division (benchmark)
Featherweight
26
AgeΔ 6 yrs
32
6'1"
HeightΔ 5"
5'8"
74"
ReachΔ 5"
69"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
0.6
Layoff (months)Δ 49.9 mo
50.5
WLLWW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLWLW
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.

Chase Hooper is a submission threat — 2.05 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.49 Lightweight norm.
Chase Hooper hunts takedowns — 2.82 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.38 Lightweight norm.
Opponents land 58% of their head shots on Felipe Colares, vs a 36% Featherweight norm — a hole in the guard.
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.

Chase Hooper

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 105
Tier 3 — regional circuit 70

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.38 · 10 tier-1/2 wins · 13 finish wins over 23 documented bouts

In the UFC: 2-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.2 wins over .500

Felipe Colares

Full career not yet synced for Felipe Colares — tier grading appears once their record documentation lands (refreshes weekly).

In the UFC: 0-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.5 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

5054.32/min · norm 3.42
Sig. strikes landed
1912.17/min · norm 3.54
3573.05/min · norm 3.37
Sig. strikes absorbed
4094.65/min · norm 3.47
47.6%norm 43.5%
Striking accuracy
45.3%norm 45.0%
40.6%norm 56.3%
Striking defense
36.9%norm 54.85%
10.13/15 · norm 0.25
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.29

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

Chase Hooper

Distance 72.4% (norm 82.8%) · Clinch 9.5% (norm 7.6%) · Ground 18.1% (norm 8.0%)

Felipe Colares

Distance 83.4% (norm 85.7%) · Clinch 7.6% (norm 6.1%) · Ground 9.0% (norm 6.5%)

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

Chase Hooper

Head 81.9% (norm 78.2%) · Body 11.9% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 6.2% (norm 7.9%)

Felipe Colares

Head 73.9% (norm 77.4%) · Body 21.1% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 5.0% (norm 7.8%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Hooper L/AAccLightweight med Colares L/AAccFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 311 / 768 40.5% 37.9% 147 / 352 41.8% 40.9%
In the clinch 59 / 101 58.4% 67.3% 20 / 32 62.5% 70.8%
On the ground 135 / 192 70.3% 69.1% 24 / 38 63.2% 69.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 357 / 869 41.1% 35.0% 116 / 312 37.2% 37.2%
To the body 93 / 126 73.8% 69.1% 61 / 89 68.5% 68.2%
To the legs 55 / 66 83.3% 81.9% 14 / 21 too few to rate 80.7%

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 (Lightweight: 201 fighters · Featherweight: 126 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 Hooper L/AOpp accLightweight med vs Colares L/AOpp accFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 254 / 475 53.5% 38.9% 271 / 470 57.7% 39.2%
In the clinch 33 / 44 75.0% 68.6% 86 / 114 75.4% 70.3%
On the ground 70 / 82 85.4% 68.0% 52 / 64 81.2% 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 255 / 482 52.9% 35.1% 307 / 528 58.1% 35.9%
To the body 51 / 63 81.0% 68.1% 60 / 74 81.1% 67.9%
To the legs 51 / 56 91.1% 81.5% 42 / 46 91.3% 81.5%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

2234.4% acc · 2.82/15 · norm 1.38
Takedowns landed
1124.4% acc · 1.88/15 · norm 1.19
950.0% def · norm 64.0%
Takedowns stopped
1943.2% def · norm 61.5%
41:4035.6% of cage time · norm 19.5%
Control time
23:2026.5% of cage time · norm 16.7%
24:193:07 per 15 · norm 2:46
Time under control
34:535:56 per 15 · norm 3:12
162.05/15 · norm 0.49
Submission attempts
30.51/15 · norm 0.46

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

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