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Irene Aldana vs.
Norma Dumont

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

8-6-0 Irene Aldana · UFC
9-3-0 Norma Dumont · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

8-6-0
UFC record
9-3-0
Women's Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Featherweight
38.4
AgeΔ 2.6 yrs
35.8
5'9"
HeightΔ 2"
5'7"
68"
ReachΔ 1"
67"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
22.7
Layoff (months)Δ 19.3 mo
3.4
LWLWW
Last 5 (newest first)
LWWWW
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.

Irene Aldana carries real power — 0.22 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.08 Women's Bantamweight norm.
Irene Aldana absorbs 6.64 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.51 Women's Bantamweight norm — hittable.
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.

Irene Aldana

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 86
Tier 3 — regional circuit 62

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.92 · 8 tier-1/2 wins · 10 finish wins over 22 documented bouts

In the UFC: 6-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.5 wins over .500

Norma Dumont

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 93
Tier 3 — regional circuit 40

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.38 · 9 tier-1/2 wins · 2 finish wins over 16 documented bouts

In the UFC: 6-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.2 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

10655.19/min · norm 3.56
Sig. strikes landed
6873.85/min · norm 3.85
13636.64/min · norm 3.51
Sig. strikes absorbed
4162.33/min · norm 2.33
39.9%norm 46.65%
Striking accuracy
51.0%norm 51.0%
56.3%norm 52.45%
Striking defense
64.3%norm 64.3%
30.22/15 · norm 0.08
Knockdowns
20.17/15 · norm 0.17

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

Irene Aldana

Distance 93.9% (norm 80.3%) · Clinch 2.8% (norm 9.7%) · Ground 3.3% (norm 7.5%)

Norma Dumont

Distance 87.8% (norm 72.1%) · Clinch 8.2% (norm 16.0%) · Ground 4.1% (norm 11.9%)

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

Irene Aldana

Head 81.5% (norm 75.2%) · Body 9.6% (norm 14.3%) · Legs 8.9% (norm 8.8%)

Norma Dumont

Head 74.7% (norm 74.7%) · Body 14.2% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 11.1% (norm 9.0%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Aldana L/AAccWomen's Bantamweight med Dumont L/AAccWomen's Featherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 948 / 2504 37.9% 38.3% 559 / 1183 47.3% 47.3%
In the clinch 55 / 74 74.3% 73.3% 90 / 110 81.8% 78.3%
On the ground 62 / 89 69.7% 70.8% 38 / 55 69.1% 69.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 743 / 2174 34.2% 37.7% 413 / 1007 41.0% 42.9%
To the body 145 / 255 56.9% 70.0% 151 / 191 79.1% 79.1%
To the legs 177 / 238 74.4% 80.9% 123 / 150 82.0% 82.0%

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 Bantamweight: 40 fighters · Women's Featherweight: 3 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 Aldana L/AOpp accWomen's Bantamweight med vs Dumont L/AOpp accWomen's Featherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 1258 / 2942 42.8% 41.3% 343 / 1060 32.4% 32.4%
In the clinch 44 / 74 59.5% 74.7% 64 / 88 72.7% 72.7%
On the ground 61 / 103 59.2% 74.2% 9 / 18 too few to rate 72.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 828 / 2395 34.6% 38.1% 216 / 821 26.3% 26.3%
To the body 242 / 388 62.4% 73.2% 119 / 203 58.6% 60.3%
To the legs 293 / 336 87.2% 80.9% 81 / 142 57.0% 67.6%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

250.0% acc · 0.15/15 · norm 0.91
Takedowns landed
1754.8% acc · 1.43/15 · norm 1.18
5677.8% def · norm 62.5%
Takedowns stopped
2371.9% def · norm 71.9%
4:302.2% of cage time · norm 26.55%
Control time
42:5224.0% of cage time · norm 24.0%
28:442:06 per 15 · norm 3:19
Time under control
34:172:52 per 15 · norm 2:26
30.22/15 · norm 0.34
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.00

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

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