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Guangyou Ning vs.
Marco Beltran

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

2-2-0 Guangyou Ning · UFC
3-3-0 Marco Beltran · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

2-2-0
UFC record
3-3-0
Featherweight
Division (benchmark)
Bantamweight
44
AgeΔ 4 yrs
40
5'4"
HeightΔ 4"
5'8"
64"
ReachΔ 5"
69"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
116.3
Layoff (months)Δ 10.4 mo
105.9
LLWW
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.

Marco Beltran is hard to hit — absorbs 1.93 sig. strikes per minute, vs a 3.58 Bantamweight norm.
Guangyou Ning is hard to hit — absorbs 1.91 sig. strikes per minute, vs a 3.47 Featherweight norm.
Marco Beltran rarely shoots — 0.70 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.12 Bantamweight 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.

Guangyou Ning

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

In the UFC: 1-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.5 wins over .500

Marco Beltran

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

In the UFC: 2-0 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record -0.2 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

1462.66/min · norm 3.54
Sig. strikes landed
1342.07/min · norm 3.52
1051.91/min · norm 3.47
Sig. strikes absorbed
1251.93/min · norm 3.58
41.6%norm 45.0%
Striking accuracy
37.5%norm 43.4%
61.4%norm 54.85%
Striking defense
63.3%norm 56.6%
00.00/15 · norm 0.29
Knockdowns
10.23/15 · norm 0.30

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

Guangyou Ning

Distance 85.5% (norm 85.7%) · Clinch 4.3% (norm 6.1%) · Ground 10.3% (norm 6.5%)

Marco Beltran

Distance 75.6% (norm 87.4%) · Clinch 10.9% (norm 5.7%) · Ground 13.4% (norm 6.5%)

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

Guangyou Ning

Head 68.9% (norm 77.4%) · Body 12.3% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 18.8% (norm 7.8%)

Marco Beltran

Head 76.5% (norm 77.4%) · Body 12.9% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 10.6% (norm 8.4%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Ning L/AAccFeatherweight med Beltran L/AAccBantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 111 / 300 37.0% 40.9% 79 / 270 29.3% 39.0%
In the clinch 10 / 15 too few to rate 70.8% 29 / 39 74.4% 68.7%
On the ground 25 / 36 69.4% 69.2% 26 / 48 54.2% 70.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 77 / 242 31.8% 37.2% 76 / 273 27.8% 34.9%
To the body 26 / 43 60.5% 68.2% 29 / 46 63.0% 66.8%
To the legs 43 / 66 65.2% 80.7% 29 / 38 76.3% 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 Ning L/AOpp accFeatherweight med vs Beltran L/AOpp accBantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 80 / 236 33.9% 39.2% 76 / 265 28.7% 39.3%
In the clinch 13 / 20 too few to rate 70.3% 18 / 25 72.0% 70.4%
On the ground 12 / 16 too few to rate 69.4% 31 / 51 60.8% 72.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 40 / 171 23.4% 35.9% 75 / 262 28.6% 34.9%
To the body 26 / 45 57.8% 67.9% 26 / 45 57.8% 66.0%
To the legs 39 / 56 69.6% 81.5% 24 / 34 70.6% 79.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

450.0% acc · 1.09/15 · norm 1.19
Takedowns landed
350.0% acc · 0.70/15 · norm 1.12
562.5% def · norm 61.5%
Takedowns stopped
646.2% def · norm 66.7%
11:5421.6% of cage time · norm 16.7%
Control time
8:1812.8% of cage time · norm 17.4%
3:170:53 per 15 · norm 3:12
Time under control
18:454:20 per 15 · norm 2:24
10.27/15 · norm 0.46
Submission attempts
10.23/15 · norm 0.28

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

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