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Desmond Green vs. Charles Jourdain

UFC 4-3-0 vs. 9-8-1

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
4-3-0
UFC record
9-8-1
Lightweight
Division (benchmark)
Featherweight
37
AgeΔ 7 yrs
30
5'10"
HeightΔ 1"
5'9"
73"
ReachΔ 4"
69"
Southpaw
Stance
Switch
89.1
Layoff (months)Δ 88.1 mo
1
WWLWL
Last 5 (newest first)
LWWWL

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
Charles Jourdain carries real power — 0.51 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.29 Featherweight norm.
Charles Jourdain rarely shoots — 0.36 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.17 Featherweight norm.
Desmond Green defends head shots well — opponents land just 19%, vs a 35% Lightweight norm.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Desmond Green

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 75
Tier 3 — regional circuit 183

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.9 · 7 tier-1/2 wins · 8 finish wins over 33 documented bouts

In the UFC: 2-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +3.1 wins over .500

Charles Jourdain

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 97
Tier 3 — regional circuit 91

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.1 · 9 tier-1/2 wins · 15 finish wins over 27 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-6 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.4 wins over .500

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

3443.70/min · norm 3.44
Sig. strikes landed
11325.44/min · norm 3.52
2332.51/min · norm 3.38
Sig. strikes absorbed lower is better
8774.22/min · norm 3.50
46.1%norm 43.65%
Striking accuracy
50.3%norm 44.7%
69.0%norm 56.3%
Striking defense
56.0%norm 54.8%
10.16/15 · norm 0.25
Knockdowns
70.51/15 · norm 0.29

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

Desmond Green

Distance 89.7% (norm 83.1%) · Clinch 6.0% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 4.3% (norm 8.0%)

Charles Jourdain

Distance 82.2% (norm 85.9%) · Clinch 12.2% (norm 6.0%) · Ground 5.6% (norm 6.5%)

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

Desmond Green

Head 79.1% (norm 78.0%) · Body 12.6% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 8.3% (norm 8.0%)

Charles Jourdain

Head 68.5% (norm 77.5%) · Body 21.0% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 10.5% (norm 7.9%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Green L/AAccLightweight med Jourdain L/AAccFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 286 / 669 42.8% 38.3% 837 / 1849 45.3% 40.5%
In the clinch 31 / 45 68.9% 67.5% 216 / 275 78.5% 70.5%
On the ground 27 / 32 84.4% 68.8% 79 / 125 63.2% 69.3%
BY TARGET
To the head 232 / 590 39.3% 35.1% 591 / 1540 38.4% 37.1%
To the body 62 / 94 66.0% 69.1% 337 / 472 71.4% 68.0%
To the legs 50 / 62 80.6% 81.8% 204 / 237 86.1% 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 (Lightweight: 204 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 Green L/AOpp accLightweight med vs Jourdain L/AOpp accFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 209 / 715 29.2% 38.8% 708 / 1759 40.3% 39.3%
In the clinch 11 / 23 too few to rate 68.6% 121 / 159 76.1% 70.3%
On the ground 13 / 14 too few to rate 68.0% 48 / 74 64.9% 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 100 / 537 18.6% 35.2% 520 / 1524 34.1% 35.9%
To the body 53 / 118 44.9% 68.2% 199 / 289 68.9% 68.0%
To the legs 80 / 97 82.5% 81.5% 158 / 179 88.3% 81.5%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
1050.0% acc · 1.62/15 · norm 1.34
Takedowns landed
520.8% acc · 0.36/15 · norm 1.17
1875.0% def · norm 63.7%
Takedowns stopped
3144.9% def · norm 61.5%
5:496.3% of cage time · norm 18.95%
Control time
22:4410.9% of cage time · norm 16.5%
5:040:49 per 15 · norm 2:50
Time under control lower is better
39:392:51 per 15 · norm 3:11
00.00/15 · norm 0.48
Submission attempts
80.58/15 · norm 0.45

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