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Felipe Colares vs.
Chris Gutierrez

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

2-4-0 Felipe Colares · UFC
10-4-1 Chris Gutierrez · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

2-4-0
UFC record
10-4-1
Featherweight
Division (benchmark)
Bantamweight
32.4
AgeΔ 2.9 yrs
35.3
5'8"
HeightΔ 1"
5'9"
69"
ReachΔ 2"
67"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
50.5
Layoff (months)Δ 40.4 mo
10.1
LLWLW
Last 5 (newest first)
LWWLW
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.

Chris Gutierrez rarely shoots — 0.30 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.12 Bantamweight norm.
Opponents land 58% of their head shots on Felipe Colares, vs a 36% Featherweight norm — a hole in the guard.
Felipe Colares owns the mat — in control 26% of cage time, vs a 17% Featherweight 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.

Felipe Colares

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

In the UFC: 0-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.5 wins over .500

Chris Gutierrez

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 114
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 20
Tier 3 — regional circuit 93

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.14 · 13 tier-1/2 wins · 10 finish wins over 31 documented bouts

In the UFC: 6-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.0 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

1912.17/min · norm 3.54
Sig. strikes landed
8954.40/min · norm 3.52
4094.65/min · norm 3.47
Sig. strikes absorbed
5392.65/min · norm 3.58
45.3%norm 45.0%
Striking accuracy
57.6%norm 43.4%
36.9%norm 54.85%
Striking defense
63.4%norm 56.6%
00.00/15 · norm 0.29
Knockdowns
60.44/15 · norm 0.30

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

Felipe Colares

Distance 83.4% (norm 85.7%) · Clinch 7.6% (norm 6.1%) · Ground 9.0% (norm 6.5%)

Chris Gutierrez

Distance 95.9% (norm 87.4%) · Clinch 1.7% (norm 5.7%) · Ground 2.4% (norm 6.5%)

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

Felipe Colares

Head 73.9% (norm 77.4%) · Body 21.1% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 5.0% (norm 7.8%)

Chris Gutierrez

Head 51.6% (norm 77.4%) · Body 10.7% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 37.7% (norm 8.4%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Colares L/AAccFeatherweight med Gutierrez L/AAccBantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 147 / 352 41.8% 40.9% 852 / 1491 57.1% 39.0%
In the clinch 20 / 32 62.5% 70.8% 17 / 27 63.0% 68.7%
On the ground 24 / 38 63.2% 69.2% 26 / 37 70.3% 70.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 116 / 312 37.2% 37.2% 339 / 802 42.3% 34.9%
To the body 61 / 89 68.5% 68.2% 101 / 166 60.8% 66.8%
To the legs 14 / 21 too few to rate 80.7% 455 / 587 77.5% 79.4%

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 (Featherweight: 126 fighters · Bantamweight: 117 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 Colares L/AOpp accFeatherweight med vs Gutierrez L/AOpp accBantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 271 / 470 57.7% 39.2% 453 / 1341 33.8% 39.3%
In the clinch 86 / 114 75.4% 70.3% 13 / 20 too few to rate 70.4%
On the ground 52 / 64 81.2% 69.4% 73 / 112 65.2% 72.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 307 / 528 58.1% 35.9% 266 / 1029 25.9% 34.9%
To the body 60 / 74 81.1% 67.9% 116 / 212 54.7% 66.0%
To the legs 42 / 46 91.3% 81.5% 157 / 232 67.7% 79.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

1124.4% acc · 1.88/15 · norm 1.19
Takedowns landed
430.8% acc · 0.30/15 · norm 1.12
1943.2% def · norm 61.5%
Takedowns stopped
3867.9% def · norm 66.7%
23:2026.5% of cage time · norm 16.7%
Control time
8:594.4% of cage time · norm 17.4%
34:535:56 per 15 · norm 3:12
Time under control
46:063:24 per 15 · norm 2:24
30.51/15 · norm 0.46
Submission attempts
10.07/15 · norm 0.28

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

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