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Ilir Latifi vs.
Tanner Boser

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

9-7-0 Ilir Latifi · UFC
5-6-0 Tanner Boser · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

9-7-0
UFC record
5-6-0
Light Heavyweight
Division (benchmark)
Heavyweight
44
AgeΔ 9 yrs
35
5'10"
HeightΔ 4"
6'2"
73"
ReachΔ 2"
75"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
38.6
Layoff (months)Δ 35 mo
3.6
LWWLL
Last 5 (newest first)
LWLLW
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.

Ilir Latifi hunts takedowns — 2.11 per 15 minutes, vs a 0.87 Light Heavyweight norm.
Tanner Boser rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.95 Heavyweight norm.
Ilir Latifi owns the mat — in control 30% of cage time, vs a 16% Light Heavyweight 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.

Ilir Latifi

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

In the UFC: 6-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.1 wins over .500

Tanner Boser

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 56
Tier 3 — regional circuit 175

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.67 · 5 tier-1/2 wins · 14 finish wins over 34 documented bouts

In the UFC: 1-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.5 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

3062.05/min · norm 3.41
Sig. strikes landed
5764.82/min · norm 3.36
4362.93/min · norm 3.35
Sig. strikes absorbed
3593.00/min · norm 3.19
45.2%norm 48.3%
Striking accuracy
53.5%norm 47.8%
56.3%norm 52.9%
Striking defense
57.5%norm 52.5%
40.40/15 · norm 0.40
Knockdowns
20.25/15 · norm 0.28

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

Ilir Latifi

Distance 80.9% (norm 80.5%) · Clinch 8.3% (norm 8.6%) · Ground 10.8% (norm 10.4%)

Tanner Boser

Distance 90.5% (norm 79.5%) · Clinch 6.2% (norm 9.8%) · Ground 3.3% (norm 9.3%)

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

Ilir Latifi

Head 80.4% (norm 79.2%) · Body 11.7% (norm 11.7%) · Legs 8.0% (norm 9.7%)

Tanner Boser

Head 67.6% (norm 79.2%) · Body 13.6% (norm 11.5%) · Legs 18.9% (norm 7.6%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Latifi L/AAccLight Heavyweight med Boser L/AAccHeavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 214 / 548 39.1% 41.4% 498 / 974 51.1% 40.1%
In the clinch 34 / 56 60.7% 70.9% 52 / 67 77.6% 70.6%
On the ground 58 / 73 79.5% 72.3% 26 / 35 74.3% 70.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 205 / 544 37.7% 38.9% 278 / 727 38.2% 38.9%
To the body 56 / 79 70.9% 71.9% 112 / 146 76.7% 76.8%
To the legs 45 / 54 83.3% 81.8% 186 / 203 91.6% 87.8%

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 (Light Heavyweight: 93 fighters · Heavyweight: 93 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 Latifi L/AOpp accLight Heavyweight med vs Boser L/AOpp accHeavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 361 / 887 40.7% 40.4% 288 / 762 37.8% 40.7%
In the clinch 47 / 75 62.7% 68.7% 45 / 56 80.4% 70.6%
On the ground 28 / 36 77.8% 70.4% 26 / 27 96.3% 72.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 286 / 765 37.4% 37.5% 224 / 659 34.0% 38.8%
To the body 82 / 149 55.0% 72.3% 86 / 123 69.9% 75.1%
To the legs 68 / 84 81.0% 83.0% 49 / 63 77.8% 84.4%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

2135.6% acc · 2.11/15 · norm 0.87
Takedowns landed
00.0% acc · 0.00/15 · norm 0.95
7100.0% def · norm 66.7%
Takedowns stopped
1669.6% def · norm 64.3%
44:5030.1% of cage time · norm 16.5%
Control time
9:007.5% of cage time · norm 17.2%
2:410:16 per 15 · norm 2:48
Time under control
18:292:19 per 15 · norm 2:28
30.30/15 · norm 0.27
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.16

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

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