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Eryk Anders vs.
Khalil Rountree Jr.

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

10-9-0 (1 NC) Eryk Anders · UFC
10-7-0 (1 NC) Khalil Rountree Jr. · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

10-9-0 (1 NC)
UFC record
10-7-0 (1 NC)
Middleweight
Division (benchmark)
Light Heavyweight
39
AgeΔ 3 yrs
36
6'1"
HeightΔ 0"
6'1"
75"
ReachΔ 1"
76"
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
4.8
Layoff (months)Δ 5.3 mo
10.1
WLWWL
Last 5 (newest first)
LWLWW
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.

Khalil Rountree Jr. carries real power — 1.20 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.40 Light Heavyweight norm.
Khalil Rountree Jr. rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.87 Light Heavyweight norm.
Eryk Anders owns the mat — in control 31% of cage time, vs a 20% Middleweight 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.

Eryk Anders

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 119
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 20
Tier 3 — regional circuit 50

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.1 · 13 tier-1/2 wins · 11 finish wins over 28 documented bouts

In the UFC: 4-7 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.6 wins over .500

Khalil Rountree Jr.

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 107
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 40

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.21 · 14 tier-1/2 wins · 9 finish wins over 22 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.0 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

8193.44/min · norm 3.25
Sig. strikes landed
6803.88/min · norm 3.41
9614.03/min · norm 3.20
Sig. strikes absorbed
7584.33/min · norm 3.35
47.9%norm 47.4%
Striking accuracy
40.6%norm 48.3%
50.5%norm 53.8%
Striking defense
49.5%norm 52.9%
70.44/15 · norm 0.32
Knockdowns
141.20/15 · norm 0.40

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

Eryk Anders

Distance 68.6% (norm 79.4%) · Clinch 17.8% (norm 9.1%) · Ground 13.6% (norm 10.3%)

Khalil Rountree Jr.

Distance 94.2% (norm 80.5%) · Clinch 3.2% (norm 8.6%) · Ground 2.6% (norm 10.4%)

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

Eryk Anders

Head 81.2% (norm 78.0%) · Body 15.5% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 3.3% (norm 8.4%)

Khalil Rountree Jr.

Head 76.3% (norm 79.2%) · Body 13.3% (norm 11.7%) · Legs 10.4% (norm 9.7%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Anders L/AAccMiddleweight med Jr. L/AAccLight Heavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 450 / 1174 38.3% 40.5% 617 / 1576 39.1% 41.4%
In the clinch 208 / 305 68.2% 70.3% 36 / 53 67.9% 70.9%
On the ground 161 / 232 69.4% 69.1% 27 / 44 61.4% 72.3%
BY TARGET
To the head 571 / 1390 41.1% 38.9% 375 / 1276 29.4% 38.9%
To the body 206 / 265 77.7% 71.7% 162 / 223 72.6% 71.9%
To the legs 42 / 56 75.0% 83.3% 143 / 174 82.2% 81.8%

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 · Light Heavyweight: 93 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 Anders L/AOpp accMiddleweight med vs Jr. L/AOpp accLight Heavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 721 / 1605 44.9% 39.5% 684 / 1407 48.6% 40.4%
In the clinch 199 / 251 79.3% 70.9% 31 / 41 75.6% 68.7%
On the ground 41 / 84 48.8% 69.0% 43 / 53 81.1% 70.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 523 / 1397 37.4% 37.9% 439 / 1101 39.9% 37.5%
To the body 241 / 314 76.8% 71.3% 165 / 215 76.7% 72.3%
To the legs 197 / 229 86.0% 82.1% 154 / 185 83.2% 83.0%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

2925.4% acc · 1.83/15 · norm 1.42
Takedowns landed
0— acc · 0.00/15 · norm 0.87
3780.4% def · norm 63.1%
Takedowns stopped
2058.8% def · norm 66.7%
72:5930.6% of cage time · norm 19.75%
Control time
3:111.8% of cage time · norm 16.5%
19:511:14 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
17:491:31 per 15 · norm 2:48
10.06/15 · norm 0.47
Submission attempts
10.09/15 · norm 0.27

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

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