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Frank Camacho vs.
Geoff Neal

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

2-6-0 Frank Camacho · UFC
8-6-0 Geoff Neal · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

2-6-0
UFC record
8-6-0
Lightweight
Division (benchmark)
Welterweight
37.2
AgeΔ 1.3 yrs
35.9
5'10"
HeightΔ 1"
5'11"
73"
ReachΔ 2"
75"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
50.8
Layoff (months)Δ 45.3 mo
5.5
LLLWL
Last 5 (newest first)
LLWLL
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.

Geoff Neal carries real power — 0.87 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.38 Welterweight norm.
Frank Camacho absorbs 7.44 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.37 Lightweight norm — hittable.
Frank Camacho outworks the Lightweight division — 6.56 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.42 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.

Frank Camacho

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

In the UFC: 1-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.2 wins over .500

Geoff Neal

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 96
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 30
Tier 3 — regional circuit 42

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.07 · 12 tier-1/2 wins · 12 finish wins over 24 documented bouts

In the UFC: 6-6 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +4.3 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

4436.56/min · norm 3.42
Sig. strikes landed
6875.00/min · norm 3.17
5027.44/min · norm 3.37
Sig. strikes absorbed
7645.56/min · norm 3.06
46.4%norm 43.5%
Striking accuracy
50.7%norm 44.9%
51.8%norm 56.3%
Striking defense
57.0%norm 55.25%
00.00/15 · norm 0.25
Knockdowns
80.87/15 · norm 0.38

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

Frank Camacho

Distance 93.3% (norm 82.8%) · Clinch 6.0% (norm 7.6%) · Ground 0.7% (norm 8.0%)

Geoff Neal

Distance 86.9% (norm 81.2%) · Clinch 8.0% (norm 9.4%) · Ground 5.1% (norm 8.1%)

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

Frank Camacho

Head 86.0% (norm 78.2%) · Body 12.9% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 1.2% (norm 7.9%)

Geoff Neal

Head 90.5% (norm 78.2%) · Body 6.1% (norm 12.4%) · Legs 3.5% (norm 8.4%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Camacho L/AAccLightweight med Neal L/AAccWelterweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 397 / 891 44.6% 37.9% 566 / 1177 48.1% 38.6%
In the clinch 44 / 57 77.2% 67.3% 72 / 108 66.7% 67.8%
On the ground 2 / 7 too few to rate 69.1% 49 / 69 71.0% 67.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 344 / 821 41.9% 35.0% 585 / 1225 47.8% 37.2%
To the body 90 / 123 73.2% 69.1% 58 / 82 70.7% 70.7%
To the legs 9 / 11 too few to rate 81.9% 44 / 47 93.6% 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 (Lightweight: 201 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 Camacho L/AOpp accLightweight med vs Neal L/AOpp accWelterweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 449 / 967 46.4% 38.9% 684 / 1658 41.3% 39.0%
In the clinch 38 / 51 74.5% 68.6% 73 / 104 70.2% 68.9%
On the ground 15 / 24 too few to rate 68.0% 7 / 13 too few to rate 68.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 347 / 842 41.2% 35.1% 477 / 1409 33.9% 35.6%
To the body 90 / 126 71.4% 68.1% 208 / 280 74.3% 69.6%
To the legs 65 / 74 87.8% 81.5% 79 / 86 91.9% 82.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

531.3% acc · 1.11/15 · norm 1.38
Takedowns landed
545.5% acc · 0.55/15 · norm 1.27
1973.1% def · norm 64.0%
Takedowns stopped
2689.7% def · norm 63.9%
6:269.5% of cage time · norm 19.5%
Control time
19:5514.5% of cage time · norm 18.5%
5:231:11 per 15 · norm 2:46
Time under control
7:280:48 per 15 · norm 3:15
00.00/15 · norm 0.49
Submission attempts
10.11/15 · norm 0.45

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

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