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Elizabeth Phillips vs.
Valerie Letourneau

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

1-3-0 Elizabeth Phillips · UFC
3-3-0 Valerie Letourneau · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

1-3-0
UFC record
3-3-0
Women's Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Strawweight
40
AgeΔ 3.3 yrs
43.3
5'6"
HeightΔ 1"
5'7"
65"
ReachΔ 3"
68"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
119.5
Layoff (months)Δ 3.7 mo
115.8
LWLL
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLWW
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.

Elizabeth Phillips is wasteful with clinch strikes — only 41% land, vs a 73% Women's Bantamweight norm.
Elizabeth Phillips owns the mat — in control 38% of cage time, vs a 27% Women's Bantamweight norm.
Valerie Letourneau absorbs 5.40 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.94 Women's Strawweight norm — hittable.
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.

Elizabeth Phillips

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

In the UFC: 0-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.2 wins over .500

Valerie Letourneau

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

In the UFC: 1-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.8 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

1562.60/min · norm 3.56
Sig. strikes landed
4414.51/min · norm 3.77
1843.07/min · norm 3.51
Sig. strikes absorbed
5285.40/min · norm 3.94
34.0%norm 46.65%
Striking accuracy
38.0%norm 44.5%
58.3%norm 52.45%
Striking defense
58.9%norm 54.4%
00.00/15 · norm 0.08
Knockdowns
10.15/15 · norm 0.00

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

Elizabeth Phillips

Distance 85.0% (norm 80.3%) · Clinch 5.9% (norm 9.7%) · Ground 9.2% (norm 7.5%)

Valerie Letourneau

Distance 88.9% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 8.8% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 2.3% (norm 5.0%)

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

Elizabeth Phillips

Head 88.5% (norm 75.2%) · Body 7.4% (norm 14.3%) · Legs 4.1% (norm 8.8%)

Valerie Letourneau

Head 83.7% (norm 76.4%) · Body 11.4% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 4.9% (norm 9.1%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Phillips L/AAccWomen's Bantamweight med Letourneau L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 118 / 390 30.3% 38.3% 363 / 1032 35.2% 38.3%
In the clinch 11 / 27 40.7% 73.3% 57 / 102 55.9% 72.6%
On the ground 27 / 42 64.3% 70.8% 21 / 27 77.8% 75.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 123 / 406 30.3% 37.7% 305 / 972 31.4% 35.4%
To the body 15 / 34 44.1% 70.0% 95 / 132 72.0% 69.3%
To the legs 18 / 19 too few to rate 80.9% 41 / 57 71.9% 77.9%

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 (Women's Bantamweight: 40 fighters · Women's Strawweight: 63 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 Phillips L/AOpp accWomen's Bantamweight med vs Letourneau L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 133 / 362 36.7% 41.3% 463 / 1169 39.6% 39.7%
In the clinch 42 / 69 60.9% 74.7% 49 / 87 56.3% 71.5%
On the ground 9 / 10 too few to rate 74.2% 16 / 28 57.1% 74.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 136 / 375 36.3% 38.1% 284 / 950 29.9% 36.0%
To the body 41 / 57 71.9% 73.2% 120 / 183 65.6% 68.4%
To the legs 7 / 9 too few to rate 80.9% 124 / 151 82.1% 79.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

325.0% acc · 0.75/15 · norm 0.91
Takedowns landed
545.5% acc · 0.77/15 · norm 1.10
853.3% def · norm 62.5%
Takedowns stopped
1066.7% def · norm 64.1%
23:0038.3% of cage time · norm 26.55%
Control time
10:2710.7% of cage time · norm 19.4%
11:012:45 per 15 · norm 3:19
Time under control
19:312:59 per 15 · norm 3:00
10.25/15 · norm 0.34
Submission attempts
20.31/15 · norm 0.29

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

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