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Heather Clark vs.
Alexa Grasso

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

1-2-0 Heather Clark · UFC
9-5-1 Alexa Grasso · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

1-2-0
UFC record
9-5-1
Women's Strawweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Flyweight
45
AgeΔ 13 yrs
32
5'6"
HeightΔ 1"
5'5"
64"
ReachΔ 2"
66"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
117
Layoff (months)Δ 112.7 mo
4.3
LLW
Last 5 (newest first)
WLLDW
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.

Alexa Grasso is a submission threat — 0.67 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.32 Women's Flyweight norm.
Heather Clark owns the mat — in control 34% of cage time, vs a 19% Women's Strawweight norm.
Heather Clark rarely shoots — 0.33 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.10 Women's Strawweight 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.

Heather Clark

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

In the UFC: 0-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.3 wins over .500

Alexa Grasso

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 95
Tier 3 — regional circuit 70

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.2 · 9 tier-1/2 wins · 6 finish wins over 22 documented bouts

In the UFC: 6-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +3.5 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

1663.69/min · norm 3.77
Sig. strikes landed
9214.11/min · norm 3.91
2535.62/min · norm 3.94
Sig. strikes absorbed
8313.71/min · norm 3.81
49.1%norm 44.5%
Striking accuracy
41.1%norm 44.9%
50.7%norm 54.4%
Striking defense
58.7%norm 55.95%
00.00/15 · norm 0.00
Knockdowns
20.13/15 · norm 0.09

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

Heather Clark

Distance 80.8% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 16.9% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 2.4% (norm 5.0%)

Alexa Grasso

Distance 89.7% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 8.5% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 1.7% (norm 4.9%)

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

Heather Clark

Head 71.0% (norm 76.4%) · Body 21.3% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 7.7% (norm 9.1%)

Alexa Grasso

Head 76.6% (norm 78.1%) · Body 11.8% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 11.6% (norm 7.7%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Clark L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med Grasso L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 116 / 273 42.5% 38.3% 750 / 2010 37.3% 39.9%
In the clinch 44 / 57 77.2% 72.6% 142 / 191 74.3% 73.3%
On the ground 6 / 8 too few to rate 75.0% 29 / 39 74.4% 74.7%
BY TARGET
To the head 96 / 240 40.0% 35.4% 570 / 1716 33.2% 34.9%
To the body 48 / 72 66.7% 69.3% 174 / 264 65.9% 69.5%
To the legs 22 / 26 84.6% 77.9% 177 / 260 68.1% 82.6%

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 Strawweight: 63 fighters · Women's Flyweight: 46 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 Clark L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med vs Grasso L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 163 / 375 43.5% 39.7% 709 / 1838 38.6% 38.8%
In the clinch 85 / 132 64.4% 71.5% 76 / 114 66.7% 74.1%
On the ground 5 / 6 too few to rate 74.4% 46 / 61 75.4% 73.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 160 / 391 40.9% 36.0% 598 / 1692 35.3% 35.3%
To the body 50 / 73 68.5% 68.4% 145 / 210 69.0% 69.0%
To the legs 43 / 49 87.8% 79.1% 88 / 111 79.3% 78.7%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

14.2% acc · 0.33/15 · norm 1.10
Takedowns landed
635.3% acc · 0.40/15 · norm 1.02
480.0% def · norm 64.1%
Takedowns stopped
4054.8% def · norm 58.95%
15:1233.8% of cage time · norm 19.4%
Control time
21:159.5% of cage time · norm 19.15%
5:081:42 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
54:073:37 per 15 · norm 3:03
10.33/15 · norm 0.29
Submission attempts
100.67/15 · norm 0.32

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

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