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Chris Gutierrez 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.

10-4-1 Chris Gutierrez · 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.

10-4-1
UFC record
2-4-0
Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Featherweight
35.3
AgeΔ 2.9 yrs
32.4
5'9"
HeightΔ 1"
5'8"
67"
ReachΔ 2"
69"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
10.1
Layoff (months)Δ 40.4 mo
50.5
LWWLW
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.

Chris Gutierrez rarely shoots — 0.30 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.12 Bantamweight norm.
Opponents land 58% of their head shots on Felipe Colares, vs a 36% Featherweight norm — a hole in the guard.
Felipe Colares owns the mat — in control 26% of cage time, vs a 17% 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.

Chris Gutierrez

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 114
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 20
Tier 3 — regional circuit 93

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.14 · 13 tier-1/2 wins · 10 finish wins over 31 documented bouts

In the UFC: 6-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.0 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

8954.40/min · norm 3.52
Sig. strikes landed
1912.17/min · norm 3.54
5392.65/min · norm 3.58
Sig. strikes absorbed
4094.65/min · norm 3.47
57.6%norm 43.4%
Striking accuracy
45.3%norm 45.0%
63.4%norm 56.6%
Striking defense
36.9%norm 54.85%
60.44/15 · norm 0.30
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.29

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

Chris Gutierrez

Distance 95.9% (norm 87.4%) · Clinch 1.7% (norm 5.7%) · Ground 2.4% (norm 6.5%)

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)

Chris Gutierrez

Head 51.6% (norm 77.4%) · Body 10.7% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 37.7% (norm 8.4%)

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 Gutierrez L/AAccBantamweight med Colares L/AAccFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 852 / 1491 57.1% 39.0% 147 / 352 41.8% 40.9%
In the clinch 17 / 27 63.0% 68.7% 20 / 32 62.5% 70.8%
On the ground 26 / 37 70.3% 70.2% 24 / 38 63.2% 69.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 339 / 802 42.3% 34.9% 116 / 312 37.2% 37.2%
To the body 101 / 166 60.8% 66.8% 61 / 89 68.5% 68.2%
To the legs 455 / 587 77.5% 79.4% 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 (Bantamweight: 117 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 Gutierrez L/AOpp accBantamweight med vs Colares L/AOpp accFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 453 / 1341 33.8% 39.3% 271 / 470 57.7% 39.2%
In the clinch 13 / 20 too few to rate 70.4% 86 / 114 75.4% 70.3%
On the ground 73 / 112 65.2% 72.4% 52 / 64 81.2% 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 266 / 1029 25.9% 34.9% 307 / 528 58.1% 35.9%
To the body 116 / 212 54.7% 66.0% 60 / 74 81.1% 67.9%
To the legs 157 / 232 67.7% 79.1% 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.

430.8% acc · 0.30/15 · norm 1.12
Takedowns landed
1124.4% acc · 1.88/15 · norm 1.19
3867.9% def · norm 66.7%
Takedowns stopped
1943.2% def · norm 61.5%
8:594.4% of cage time · norm 17.4%
Control time
23:2026.5% of cage time · norm 16.7%
46:063:24 per 15 · norm 2:24
Time under control
34:535:56 per 15 · norm 3:12
10.07/15 · norm 0.28
Submission attempts
30.51/15 · norm 0.46

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

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