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Cole Escovedo vs. Alex Caceres

UFC 0-3-0 vs. 16-13-0 (1 NC)

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
0-3-0
UFC record
16-13-0 (1 NC)
Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Featherweight
45
AgeΔ 7 yrs
38
5'7"
HeightΔ 3"
5'10"
72"
ReachΔ 1"
73"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
179.2
Layoff (months)Δ 149.9 mo
29.3
LLL
Last 5 (newest first)
LLWWL

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
Cole Escovedo's takedown defense leaks — 12% stopped, vs a 66% Bantamweight norm.
Cole Escovedo absorbs 5.52 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.58 Bantamweight norm — hittable.
Alex Caceres rarely shoots — 0.54 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.17 Featherweight norm.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Cole Escovedo

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 03
Tier 3 — regional circuit 176

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.39 · 0 tier-1/2 wins · 16 finish wins over 26 documented bouts

In the UFC: 0-0 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record -0.7 wins over .500

Alex Caceres

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 1613
Tier 3 — regional circuit 52

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.78 · 16 tier-1/2 wins · 11 finish wins over 37 documented bouts

In the UFC: 6-6 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

822.08/min · norm 3.52
Sig. strikes landed
15194.21/min · norm 3.52
2185.52/min · norm 3.58
Sig. strikes absorbed lower is better
11153.09/min · norm 3.50
47.1%norm 43.5%
Striking accuracy
50.0%norm 44.7%
44.2%norm 56.6%
Striking defense
62.8%norm 54.8%
00.00/15 · norm 0.29
Knockdowns
50.21/15 · norm 0.29

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

Cole Escovedo

Distance 84.5% (norm 87.4%) · Clinch 14.4% (norm 6.2%) · Ground 1.1% (norm 6.4%)

Alex Caceres

Distance 90.0% (norm 85.9%) · Clinch 5.8% (norm 6.0%) · Ground 4.1% (norm 6.5%)

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

Cole Escovedo

Head 59.8% (norm 77.5%) · Body 28.2% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 12.1% (norm 8.4%)

Alex Caceres

Head 75.3% (norm 77.5%) · Body 17.1% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 7.6% (norm 7.9%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Escovedo L/AAccBantamweight med Caceres L/AAccFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 66 / 147 44.9% 39.2% 1306 / 2737 47.7% 40.5%
In the clinch 15 / 25 60.0% 69.0% 128 / 177 72.3% 70.5%
On the ground 1 / 2 too few to rate 70.2% 85 / 126 67.5% 69.3%
BY TARGET
To the head 28 / 104 26.9% 35.3% 950 / 2289 41.5% 37.1%
To the body 41 / 49 83.7% 66.9% 381 / 521 73.1% 68.0%
To the legs 13 / 21 too few to rate 79.2% 188 / 230 81.7% 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 Escovedo L/AOpp accBantamweight med vs Caceres L/AOpp accFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 181 / 332 54.5% 39.4% 957 / 2752 34.8% 39.3%
In the clinch 28 / 43 65.1% 70.6% 70 / 105 66.7% 70.3%
On the ground 9 / 16 too few to rate 72.1% 88 / 144 61.1% 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 129 / 285 45.3% 34.9% 633 / 2305 27.5% 35.9%
To the body 61 / 71 85.9% 66.1% 210 / 358 58.7% 68.0%
To the legs 28 / 35 80.0% 78.8% 272 / 338 80.5% 81.5%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
240.0% acc · 0.76/15 · norm 1.12
Takedowns landed
1368.4% acc · 0.54/15 · norm 1.17
112.5% def · norm 65.7%
Takedowns stopped
8564.9% def · norm 61.5%
2:477.0% of cage time · norm 17.8%
Control time
44:1012.2% of cage time · norm 16.5%
11:564:31 per 15 · norm 2:24
Time under control lower is better
76:363:11 per 15 · norm 3:11
00.00/15 · norm 0.28
Submission attempts
160.67/15 · norm 0.45

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