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Felicia Spencer vs. Amanda Nunes

UFC 3-3-0 vs. 16-2-0

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
3-3-0
UFC record
16-2-0
Women's Featherweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Bantamweight
35
AgeΔ 3 yrs
38
5'6"
HeightΔ 2"
5'8"
68"
ReachΔ 1"
69"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
59.2
Layoff (months)Δ 18.9 mo
40.3
WLLWL
Last 5 (newest first)
WWLWW

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
Amanda Nunes carries real power — 0.59 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.07 Women's Bantamweight norm.
Amanda Nunes hunts takedowns — 2.79 per 15 minutes, vs a 0.91 Women's Bantamweight norm.
Felicia Spencer absorbs 4.54 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 2.34 Women's Featherweight norm — hittable.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Felicia Spencer

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 33
Tier 3 — regional circuit 60

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.22 · 3 tier-1/2 wins · 7 finish wins over 12 documented bouts

In the UFC: 1-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.5 wins over .500

Amanda Nunes

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 162
Tier 3 — regional circuit 73

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.59 · 16 tier-1/2 wins · 17 finish wins over 28 documented bouts

In the UFC: 13-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.2 wins over .500

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

2453.21/min · norm 3.79
Sig. strikes landed
9284.54/min · norm 3.60
3474.54/min · norm 2.34
Sig. strikes absorbed lower is better
4992.44/min · norm 3.51
48.8%norm 50.4%
Striking accuracy
52.0%norm 46.5%
45.4%norm 63.8%
Striking defense
59.3%norm 52.8%
00.00/15 · norm 0.16
Knockdowns
80.59/15 · norm 0.07

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

Felicia Spencer

Distance 67.3% (norm 72.1%) · Clinch 16.9% (norm 16.0%) · Ground 15.7% (norm 11.9%)

Amanda Nunes

Distance 73.4% (norm 80.4%) · Clinch 2.9% (norm 9.4%) · Ground 23.8% (norm 7.3%)

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

Felicia Spencer

Head 77.5% (norm 73.9%) · Body 13.5% (norm 14.5%) · Legs 9.0% (norm 9.0%)

Amanda Nunes

Head 74.9% (norm 75.5%) · Body 11.1% (norm 15.0%) · Legs 14.0% (norm 8.7%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Spencer L/AAccWomen's Featherweight med Nunes L/AAccWomen's Bantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 120 / 338 35.5% 46.8% 639 / 1309 48.8% 38.5%
In the clinch 64 / 85 75.3% 78.3% 33 / 51 64.7% 74.3%
On the ground 61 / 79 77.2% 69.1% 256 / 424 60.4% 70.8%
BY TARGET
To the head 167 / 389 42.9% 42.9% 629 / 1337 47.0% 37.7%
To the body 43 / 68 63.2% 78.2% 124 / 198 62.6% 71.1%
To the legs 35 / 45 77.8% 81.7% 175 / 249 70.3% 80.8%

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 (Women's Featherweight: 3 fighters · Women's Bantamweight: 41 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 Spencer L/AOpp accWomen's Featherweight med vs Nunes L/AOpp accWomen's Bantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 258 / 515 50.1% 32.7% 397 / 1071 37.1% 41.3%
In the clinch 50 / 66 75.8% 75.0% 45 / 66 68.2% 75.0%
On the ground 39 / 54 72.2% 72.2% 57 / 89 64.0% 74.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 213 / 476 44.7% 26.4% 338 / 1001 33.8% 37.7%
To the body 78 / 98 79.6% 60.3% 73 / 109 67.0% 73.2%
To the legs 56 / 61 91.8% 67.6% 88 / 116 75.9% 80.9%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
618.8% acc · 1.18/15 · norm 1.18
Takedowns landed
3856.7% acc · 2.79/15 · norm 0.91
327.3% def · norm 74.4%
Takedowns stopped
2681.3% def · norm 62.5%
23:4631.1% of cage time · norm 22.5%
Control time
69:5834.2% of cage time · norm 26.3%
12:172:24 per 15 · norm 2:26
Time under control lower is better
13:120:58 per 15 · norm 3:19
10.20/15 · norm 0.00
Submission attempts
100.73/15 · norm 0.36

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