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Danny Roberts vs. Michel Pereira

UFC 7-7-0 vs. 10-6-0

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
7-7-0
UFC record
10-6-0
Welterweight
Division (benchmark)
Middleweight
39
AgeΔ 6 yrs
33
6'1"
HeightΔ 0"
6'1"
74"
ReachΔ 1"
73"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
39
Layoff (months)Δ 35.2 mo
3.8
LLLWW
Last 5 (newest first)
LWLLL

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
Danny Roberts rarely shoots — 0.24 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.31 Welterweight norm.
Michel Pereira absorbs 4.32 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.20 Middleweight norm — hittable.
Michel Pereira is a submission threat — 0.60 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.45 Middleweight norm.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Danny Roberts

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 78
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 60
Tier 3 — regional circuit 41

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.94 · 13 tier-1/2 wins · 13 finish wins over 26 documented bouts

In the UFC: 1-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.4 wins over .500

Michel Pereira

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 106
Tier 3 — regional circuit 229

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.74 · 10 tier-1/2 wins · 20 finish wins over 49 documented bouts

In the UFC: 7-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.0 wins over .500

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

4053.18/min · norm 3.17
Sig. strikes landed
7524.28/min · norm 3.23
4743.72/min · norm 3.08
Sig. strikes absorbed lower is better
7594.32/min · norm 3.20
39.6%norm 44.75%
Striking accuracy
51.4%norm 47.4%
51.0%norm 55.25%
Striking defense
50.7%norm 53.8%
30.35/15 · norm 0.38
Knockdowns
40.34/15 · norm 0.32

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

Danny Roberts

Distance 80.4% (norm 80.7%) · Clinch 11.5% (norm 9.6%) · Ground 8.1% (norm 8.1%)

Michel Pereira

Distance 88.4% (norm 79.5%) · Clinch 6.8% (norm 9.0%) · Ground 4.8% (norm 10.0%)

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

Danny Roberts

Head 78.1% (norm 78.3%) · Body 14.3% (norm 12.4%) · Legs 7.6% (norm 8.0%)

Michel Pereira

Head 61.9% (norm 78.0%) · Body 31.2% (norm 13.4%) · 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 Roberts L/AAccWelterweight med Pereira L/AAccMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 262 / 823 31.8% 38.5% 629 / 1294 48.6% 40.5%
In the clinch 82 / 118 69.5% 67.8% 83 / 99 83.8% 70.6%
On the ground 61 / 83 73.5% 67.0% 40 / 70 57.1% 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 233 / 800 29.1% 36.4% 352 / 905 38.9% 38.8%
To the body 106 / 146 72.6% 70.7% 319 / 457 69.8% 71.6%
To the legs 66 / 78 84.6% 83.0% 81 / 101 80.2% 83.3%

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 (Welterweight: 180 fighters · Middleweight: 178 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 Roberts L/AOpp accWelterweight med vs Pereira L/AOpp accMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 315 / 731 43.1% 39.1% 557 / 1273 43.8% 39.5%
In the clinch 105 / 159 66.0% 68.9% 62 / 90 68.9% 70.4%
On the ground 54 / 77 70.1% 68.0% 140 / 177 79.1% 69.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 336 / 774 43.4% 35.6% 471 / 1154 40.8% 37.9%
To the body 92 / 137 67.2% 69.6% 155 / 225 68.9% 71.3%
To the legs 46 / 56 82.1% 82.2% 133 / 161 82.6% 82.1%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
29.5% acc · 0.24/15 · norm 1.31
Takedowns landed
1352.0% acc · 1.11/15 · norm 1.35
2357.5% def · norm 63.9%
Takedowns stopped
4175.9% def · norm 63.3%
19:1015.1% of cage time · norm 18.5%
Control time
15:428.9% of cage time · norm 19.4%
34:184:02 per 15 · norm 3:15
Time under control lower is better
28:232:25 per 15 · norm 3:00
20.24/15 · norm 0.44
Submission attempts
70.60/15 · norm 0.45

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