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Dequan Townsend vs. Devin Clark

UFC 0-4-0 vs. 8-9-0

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
0-4-0
UFC record
8-9-0
Middleweight
Division (benchmark)
Light Heavyweight
40
AgeΔ 4 yrs
36
6'3"
HeightΔ 3"
6'0"
79"
ReachΔ 4"
75"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
72.5
Layoff (months)Δ 40.2 mo
32.3
LLLL
Last 5 (newest first)
LLWLW

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
Devin Clark hunts takedowns — 2.17 per 15 minutes, vs a 0.87 Light Heavyweight norm.
Dequan Townsend rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.35 Middleweight norm.
Devin Clark owns the mat — in control 31% of cage time, vs a 17% Light Heavyweight norm.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Dequan Townsend

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 04
Tier 3 — regional circuit 279

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.5 · 0 tier-1/2 wins · 20 finish wins over 40 documented bouts

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

Devin Clark

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 89
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 41
Tier 3 — regional circuit 20

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.7 · 12 tier-1/2 wins · 5 finish wins over 24 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.5 wins over .500

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

601.23/min · norm 3.23
Sig. strikes landed
5883.03/min · norm 3.48
1923.92/min · norm 3.20
Sig. strikes absorbed lower is better
6283.24/min · norm 3.37
34.9%norm 47.4%
Striking accuracy
54.2%norm 48.45%
38.7%norm 53.8%
Striking defense
44.0%norm 52.75%
00.00/15 · norm 0.32
Knockdowns
30.23/15 · norm 0.40

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

Dequan Townsend

Distance 84.3% (norm 79.5%) · Clinch 14.0% (norm 9.0%) · Ground 1.7% (norm 10.0%)

Devin Clark

Distance 67.8% (norm 80.5%) · Clinch 21.3% (norm 8.8%) · Ground 10.9% (norm 10.6%)

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

Dequan Townsend

Head 73.3% (norm 78.0%) · Body 22.7% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 4.1% (norm 8.4%)

Devin Clark

Head 70.7% (norm 78.5%) · Body 18.0% (norm 11.8%) · Legs 11.3% (norm 9.7%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Townsend L/AAccMiddleweight med Clark L/AAccLight Heavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 36 / 145 24.8% 40.5% 306 / 736 41.6% 41.5%
In the clinch 21 / 24 too few to rate 70.6% 182 / 231 78.8% 70.8%
On the ground 3 / 3 too few to rate 69.4% 100 / 118 84.7% 72.9%
BY TARGET
To the head 24 / 126 19.0% 38.8% 328 / 767 42.8% 39.2%
To the body 30 / 39 76.9% 71.6% 160 / 195 82.1% 72.0%
To the legs 6 / 7 too few to rate 83.3% 100 / 123 81.3% 82.1%

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 (Middleweight: 178 fighters · Light Heavyweight: 94 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 Townsend L/AOpp accMiddleweight med vs Clark L/AOpp accLight Heavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 77 / 160 48.1% 39.5% 269 / 656 41.0% 40.6%
In the clinch 36 / 50 72.0% 70.4% 242 / 311 77.8% 68.8%
On the ground 79 / 103 76.7% 69.0% 117 / 155 75.5% 70.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 123 / 232 53.0% 37.9% 368 / 815 45.2% 37.7%
To the body 47 / 58 81.0% 71.3% 183 / 219 83.6% 72.9%
To the legs 22 / 23 too few to rate 82.1% 77 / 88 87.5% 83.1%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
0— acc · 0.00/15 · norm 1.35
Takedowns landed
2832.9% acc · 2.17/15 · norm 0.87
746.7% def · norm 63.3%
Takedowns stopped
2058.8% def · norm 66.7%
0:240.8% of cage time · norm 19.4%
Control time
59:4330.8% of cage time · norm 17.1%
29:409:05 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control lower is better
51:403:59 per 15 · norm 2:50
00.00/15 · norm 0.45
Submission attempts
10.08/15 · norm 0.28

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