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Elias Theodorou vs.
Sheldon Westcott

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

8-3-0 Elias Theodorou · UFC
1-2-0 Sheldon Westcott · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

8-3-0
UFC record
1-2-0
Middleweight
Division (benchmark)
Welterweight
38.2
AgeΔ 3.8 yrs
42
6'1"
HeightΔ 0"
6'1"
75"
ReachΔ 4"
71"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
87.1
Layoff (months)Δ 40 mo
127.1
LWWWL
Last 5 (newest first)
WLL
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.

Sheldon Westcott owns the mat — in control 57% of cage time, vs a 18% Welterweight norm.
Sheldon Westcott hunts takedowns — 3.23 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.27 Welterweight norm.
Elias Theodorou outworks the Middleweight division — 4.19 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.25 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.

Elias Theodorou

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

In the UFC: 5-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.9 wins over .500

Sheldon Westcott

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

In the UFC: 0-0 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record -1.3 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

6444.19/min · norm 3.25
Sig. strikes landed
632.26/min · norm 3.17
3672.39/min · norm 3.20
Sig. strikes absorbed
1043.73/min · norm 3.06
42.3%norm 47.4%
Striking accuracy
40.6%norm 44.9%
53.0%norm 53.8%
Striking defense
37.3%norm 55.25%
00.00/15 · norm 0.32
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.38

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

Elias Theodorou

Distance 78.1% (norm 79.4%) · Clinch 15.7% (norm 9.1%) · Ground 6.1% (norm 10.3%)

Sheldon Westcott

Distance 27.7% (norm 81.2%) · Clinch 25.2% (norm 9.4%) · Ground 47.1% (norm 8.1%)

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

Elias Theodorou

Head 59.6% (norm 78.0%) · Body 24.0% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 16.3% (norm 8.4%)

Sheldon Westcott

Head 80.0% (norm 78.2%) · Body 18.1% (norm 12.4%) · Legs 1.9% (norm 8.4%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Theodorou L/AAccMiddleweight med Westcott L/AAccWelterweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 407 / 1191 34.2% 40.5% 10 / 43 23.3% 38.6%
In the clinch 165 / 240 68.8% 70.3% 20 / 39 51.3% 67.8%
On the ground 72 / 93 77.4% 69.1% 33 / 73 45.2% 67.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 279 / 909 30.7% 38.9% 48 / 124 38.7% 37.2%
To the body 211 / 366 57.7% 71.7% 13 / 28 46.4% 70.7%
To the legs 154 / 249 61.8% 83.3% 2 / 3 too few to rate 82.9%

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: 174 fighters · Welterweight: 182 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 Theodorou L/AOpp accMiddleweight med vs Westcott L/AOpp accWelterweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 227 / 583 38.9% 39.5% 30 / 73 41.1% 39.0%
In the clinch 130 / 186 69.9% 70.9% 27 / 33 81.8% 68.9%
On the ground 10 / 12 too few to rate 69.0% 47 / 60 78.3% 68.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 215 / 574 37.5% 37.9% 73 / 125 58.4% 35.6%
To the body 98 / 135 72.6% 71.3% 24 / 34 70.6% 69.6%
To the legs 54 / 72 75.0% 82.1% 7 / 7 too few to rate 82.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

1328.3% acc · 1.27/15 · norm 1.42
Takedowns landed
637.5% acc · 3.23/15 · norm 1.27
2959.2% def · norm 63.1%
Takedowns stopped
114.3% def · norm 63.9%
33:5522.1% of cage time · norm 19.75%
Control time
15:4956.7% of cage time · norm 18.5%
21:122:04 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
7:123:52 per 15 · norm 3:15
00.00/15 · norm 0.47
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.45

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

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