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Istela Nunes vs.
Yazmin Jauregui

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

0-5-0 Istela Nunes · UFC
3-2-0 Yazmin Jauregui · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

0-5-0
UFC record
3-2-0
Women's Strawweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Strawweight
34
AgeΔ 6.6 yrs
27.4
5'4"
HeightΔ 1"
5'3"
66"
ReachΔ 2"
64"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
16
Layoff (months)Δ 6.7 mo
22.7
LLLLL
Last 5 (newest first)
LWLWW
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.

Yazmin Jauregui rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.10 Women's Strawweight norm.
Istela Nunes rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.10 Women's Strawweight norm.
Yazmin Jauregui outworks the Women's Strawweight division — 6.64 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.77 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.

Istela Nunes

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

In the UFC: 0-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.4 wins over .500

Yazmin Jauregui

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 32
Tier 3 — regional circuit 60

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.19 · 3 tier-1/2 wins · 6 finish wins over 11 documented bouts

In the UFC: 0-0 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record -0.6 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

2254.28/min · norm 3.77
Sig. strikes landed
2826.64/min · norm 3.77
2144.07/min · norm 3.94
Sig. strikes absorbed
2235.25/min · norm 3.94
47.4%norm 44.5%
Striking accuracy
39.4%norm 44.5%
59.7%norm 54.4%
Striking defense
54.8%norm 54.4%
10.29/15 · norm 0.00
Knockdowns
20.71/15 · norm 0.00

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

Istela Nunes

Distance 93.3% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 5.7% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 1.1% (norm 5.0%)

Yazmin Jauregui

Distance 89.4% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 5.7% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 4.9% (norm 5.0%)

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

Istela Nunes

Head 69.9% (norm 76.4%) · Body 20.0% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 10.1% (norm 9.1%)

Yazmin Jauregui

Head 76.1% (norm 76.4%) · Body 12.3% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 11.6% (norm 9.1%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Nunes L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med Jauregui L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 200 / 443 45.1% 38.3% 232 / 639 36.3% 38.3%
In the clinch 24 / 27 88.9% 72.6% 27 / 41 65.9% 72.6%
On the ground 1 / 5 too few to rate 75.0% 23 / 35 65.7% 75.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 117 / 332 35.2% 35.4% 176 / 544 32.4% 35.4%
To the body 66 / 95 69.5% 69.3% 47 / 88 53.4% 69.3%
To the legs 42 / 48 87.5% 77.9% 59 / 83 71.1% 77.9%

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 Strawweight: 63 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 Nunes L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med vs Jauregui L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 160 / 445 36.0% 39.7% 192 / 455 42.2% 39.7%
In the clinch 18 / 31 58.1% 71.5% 17 / 21 too few to rate 71.5%
On the ground 36 / 55 65.5% 74.4% 14 / 17 too few to rate 74.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 167 / 453 36.9% 36.0% 131 / 377 34.7% 36.0%
To the body 32 / 59 54.2% 68.4% 50 / 67 74.6% 68.4%
To the legs 15 / 19 too few to rate 79.1% 42 / 49 85.7% 79.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

00.0% acc · 0.00/15 · norm 1.10
Takedowns landed
00.0% acc · 0.00/15 · norm 1.10
1047.6% def · norm 64.1%
Takedowns stopped
8100.0% def · norm 64.1%
3:306.7% of cage time · norm 19.4%
Control time
3:037.2% of cage time · norm 19.4%
18:005:07 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
1:310:32 per 15 · norm 3:00
00.00/15 · norm 0.29
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.29

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

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