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Guangyou Ning vs. Marco Beltran

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

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that 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
118.8
Layoff (months)Δ 10.4 mo
108.4
LLWW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLWW

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
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 3.50 Featherweight norm.
Marco Beltran rarely shoots — 0.70 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.12 Bantamweight norm.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Guangyou Ning

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 22
Tier 3 — regional circuit 32

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.44 · 2 tier-1/2 wins · 4 finish wins over 10 documented bouts

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

Marco Beltran

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 33
Tier 3 — regional circuit 167

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.39 · 3 tier-1/2 wins · 15 finish wins over 30 documented bouts

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

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

1462.66/min · norm 3.52
Sig. strikes landed
1342.07/min · norm 3.52
1051.91/min · norm 3.50
Sig. strikes absorbed lower is better
1251.93/min · norm 3.58
41.6%norm 44.7%
Striking accuracy
37.5%norm 43.5%
61.4%norm 54.8%
Striking defense
63.3%norm 56.6%
00.00/15 · norm 0.29
Knockdowns
10.23/15 · norm 0.29

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

Guangyou Ning

Distance 85.5% (norm 85.9%) · Clinch 4.3% (norm 6.0%) · Ground 10.3% (norm 6.5%)

Marco Beltran

Distance 75.6% (norm 87.4%) · Clinch 10.9% (norm 6.2%) · Ground 13.4% (norm 6.4%)

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

Guangyou Ning

Head 68.9% (norm 77.5%) · Body 12.3% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 18.8% (norm 7.9%)

Marco Beltran

Head 76.5% (norm 77.5%) · 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% 40.5% 79 / 270 29.3% 39.2%
In the clinch 10 / 15 too few to rate 70.5% 29 / 39 74.4% 69.0%
On the ground 25 / 36 69.4% 69.3% 26 / 48 54.2% 70.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 77 / 242 31.8% 37.1% 76 / 273 27.8% 35.3%
To the body 26 / 43 60.5% 68.0% 29 / 46 63.0% 66.9%
To the legs 43 / 66 65.2% 80.3% 29 / 38 76.3% 79.2%

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: 127 fighters · Bantamweight: 121 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% 39.3% 76 / 265 28.7% 39.4%
In the clinch 13 / 20 too few to rate 70.3% 18 / 25 72.0% 70.6%
On the ground 12 / 16 too few to rate 69.4% 31 / 51 60.8% 72.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 40 / 171 23.4% 35.9% 75 / 262 28.6% 34.9%
To the body 26 / 45 57.8% 68.0% 26 / 45 57.8% 66.1%
To the legs 39 / 56 69.6% 81.5% 24 / 34 70.6% 78.8%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
450.0% acc · 1.09/15 · norm 1.17
Takedowns landed
350.0% acc · 0.70/15 · norm 1.12
562.5% def · norm 61.5%
Takedowns stopped
646.2% def · norm 65.7%
11:5421.6% of cage time · norm 16.5%
Control time
8:1812.8% of cage time · norm 17.8%
3:170:53 per 15 · norm 3:11
Time under control lower is better
18:454:20 per 15 · norm 2:24
10.27/15 · norm 0.45
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.