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Diego Ferreira vs.
Billy Quarantillo

Two full careers, measured against each man's own division and against each other — the tape, the read, and every number behind them.

10-7-0 Diego Ferreira · UFC
6-5-0 Billy Quarantillo · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

Frame, age, layoff and recent form — green marks the edge on each line.

10-7-0
UFC record
6-5-0
Lightweight
Division (benchmark)
Featherweight
41.5
AgeΔ 3.8 yrs
37.7
5'9"
HeightΔ 1"
5'10"
74"
ReachΔ 4"
70"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
10.7
Layoff (months)Δ 9 mo
19.7
LLWWL
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.

Billy Quarantillo is a submission threat — 1.10 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.46 Featherweight norm.
Billy Quarantillo outworks the Featherweight division — 7.04 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.54 norm.
Diego Ferreira rarely shoots — 0.82 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.38 Lightweight 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.

Diego Ferreira

Full career not yet synced for Diego Ferreira — tier grading appears once their record documentation lands (refreshes weekly).

In the UFC: 7-7 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +3.1 wins over .500

Billy Quarantillo

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 75
Tier 3 — regional circuit 112

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.0 · 7 tier-1/2 wins · 13 finish wins over 25 documented bouts

In the UFC: 4-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.7 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

Career totals; norms are the medians of each man's own division.

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

7764.70/min · norm 3.42
Sig. strikes landed
8637.04/min · norm 3.54
5713.46/min · norm 3.37
Sig. strikes absorbed
7205.87/min · norm 3.47
39.8%norm 43.5%
Striking accuracy
52.2%norm 45.0%
55.9%norm 56.3%
Striking defense
43.0%norm 54.85%
30.27/15 · norm 0.25
Knockdowns
20.24/15 · norm 0.29

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

Diego Ferreira

Distance 88.0% (norm 82.8%) · Clinch 3.8% (norm 7.6%) · Ground 8.3% (norm 8.0%)

Billy Quarantillo

Distance 78.0% (norm 85.7%) · Clinch 11.0% (norm 6.1%) · Ground 11.0% (norm 6.5%)

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

Diego Ferreira

Head 80.2% (norm 78.2%) · Body 16.1% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 3.7% (norm 7.9%)

Billy Quarantillo

Head 79.4% (norm 77.4%) · Body 15.7% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 4.8% (norm 7.8%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Ferreira L/AAccLightweight med Quarantillo L/AAccFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 602 / 1716 35.1% 37.9% 573 / 1289 44.5% 40.9%
In the clinch 50 / 74 67.6% 67.3% 148 / 182 81.3% 70.8%
On the ground 124 / 161 77.0% 69.1% 142 / 182 78.0% 69.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 548 / 1564 35.0% 35.0% 599 / 1313 45.6% 37.2%
To the body 169 / 314 53.8% 69.1% 198 / 260 76.2% 68.2%
To the legs 59 / 73 80.8% 81.9% 66 / 80 82.5% 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 (Lightweight: 201 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 Ferreira L/AOpp accLightweight med vs Quarantillo L/AOpp accFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 423 / 1065 39.7% 38.9% 563 / 1035 54.4% 39.2%
In the clinch 42 / 62 67.7% 68.6% 106 / 138 76.8% 70.3%
On the ground 106 / 168 63.1% 68.0% 51 / 91 56.0% 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 413 / 1069 38.6% 35.1% 496 / 983 50.5% 35.9%
To the body 106 / 164 64.6% 68.1% 141 / 187 75.4% 67.9%
To the legs 52 / 62 83.9% 81.5% 83 / 94 88.3% 81.5%
Grappling

The ground war.

Takedowns, control and submissions — career totals with each man's per-minute rates against his division norm.

930.0% acc · 0.82/15 · norm 1.38
Takedowns landed
1325.5% acc · 1.59/15 · norm 1.19
4457.9% def · norm 64.0%
Takedowns stopped
2761.4% def · norm 61.5%
19:2311.7% of cage time · norm 19.5%
Control time
33:0827.0% of cage time · norm 16.7%
39:493:37 per 15 · norm 2:46
Time under control
32:363:59 per 15 · norm 3:12
60.55/15 · norm 0.49
Submission attempts
91.10/15 · norm 0.46

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

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