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Jack Hermansson vs.
Myktybek Orolbai

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

11-8-0 Jack Hermansson · UFC
5-1-0 Myktybek Orolbai · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

11-8-0
UFC record
5-1-0
Middleweight
Division (benchmark)
Welterweight
38
AgeΔ 10 yrs
28
6'1"
HeightΔ 3"
5'10"
77"
ReachΔ 3"
74"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
8.5
Layoff (months)Δ 3.7 mo
4.8
LLWLW
Last 5 (newest first)
WWWLW
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.

Myktybek Orolbai hunts takedowns — 8.77 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.27 Welterweight norm.
Myktybek Orolbai owns the mat — in control 54% of cage time, vs a 18% Welterweight norm.
Jack Hermansson outworks the Middleweight division — 5.15 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.25 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.

Jack Hermansson

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 1110
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 70
Tier 3 — regional circuit 60

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.18 · 18 tier-1/2 wins · 17 finish wins over 34 documented bouts

In the UFC: 7-8 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.9 wins over .500

Myktybek Orolbai

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 51
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 30
Tier 3 — regional circuit 71

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.54 · 8 tier-1/2 wins · 12 finish wins over 18 documented bouts

In the UFC: 4-1 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

10485.15/min · norm 3.25
Sig. strikes landed
1712.78/min · norm 3.17
7573.72/min · norm 3.20
Sig. strikes absorbed
1662.70/min · norm 3.06
45.3%norm 47.4%
Striking accuracy
50.0%norm 44.9%
57.0%norm 53.8%
Striking defense
51.0%norm 55.25%
00.00/15 · norm 0.32
Knockdowns
20.49/15 · norm 0.38

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

Jack Hermansson

Distance 86.2% (norm 79.4%) · Clinch 4.5% (norm 9.1%) · Ground 9.3% (norm 10.3%)

Myktybek Orolbai

Distance 76.6% (norm 81.2%) · Clinch 2.0% (norm 9.4%) · Ground 21.3% (norm 8.1%)

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

Jack Hermansson

Head 73.5% (norm 78.0%) · Body 13.6% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 12.8% (norm 8.4%)

Myktybek Orolbai

Head 82.7% (norm 78.2%) · Body 9.1% (norm 12.4%) · Legs 8.2% (norm 8.4%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Hermansson L/AAccMiddleweight med Orolbai L/AAccWelterweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 812 / 1997 40.7% 40.5% 114 / 262 43.5% 38.6%
In the clinch 77 / 104 74.0% 70.3% 6 / 7 too few to rate 67.8%
On the ground 159 / 215 74.0% 69.1% 51 / 73 69.9% 67.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 591 / 1703 34.7% 38.9% 128 / 283 45.2% 37.2%
To the body 208 / 316 65.8% 71.7% 22 / 31 71.0% 70.7%
To the legs 249 / 297 83.8% 83.3% 21 / 28 75.0% 82.9%

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 (Middleweight: 174 fighters · Welterweight: 182 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 Hermansson L/AOpp accMiddleweight med vs Orolbai L/AOpp accWelterweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 655 / 1614 40.6% 39.5% 122 / 285 42.8% 39.0%
In the clinch 44 / 64 68.8% 70.9% 19 / 25 76.0% 68.9%
On the ground 58 / 82 70.7% 69.0% 25 / 29 86.2% 68.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 544 / 1453 37.4% 37.9% 101 / 258 39.1% 35.6%
To the body 169 / 243 69.5% 71.3% 34 / 46 73.9% 69.6%
To the legs 44 / 64 68.8% 82.1% 31 / 35 88.6% 82.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

2029.9% acc · 1.48/15 · norm 1.42
Takedowns landed
3659.0% acc · 8.77/15 · norm 1.27
2180.8% def · norm 63.1%
Takedowns stopped
440.0% def · norm 63.9%
35:0317.2% of cage time · norm 19.75%
Control time
32:5953.6% of cage time · norm 18.5%
21:371:35 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
5:391:22 per 15 · norm 3:15
50.37/15 · norm 0.47
Submission attempts
20.49/15 · norm 0.45

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

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