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Jacqueline Cavalcanti vs.
Zarah Fairn

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

5-1-0 Jacqueline Cavalcanti · UFC
0-4-0 Zarah Fairn · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

5-1-0
UFC record
0-4-0
Women's Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Featherweight
28
AgeΔ 14 yrs
42
5'8"
HeightΔ 0"
5'8"
70"
ReachΔ 2"
72"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2.7
Layoff (months)Δ 32.4 mo
35.1
LWWWW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLL
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.

Zarah Fairn absorbs 7.40 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 2.33 Women's Featherweight norm — hittable.
Zarah Fairn rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.18 Women's Featherweight norm.
Jacqueline Cavalcanti rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.91 Women's Bantamweight 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.

Jacqueline Cavalcanti

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 52
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 10
Tier 3 — regional circuit 40

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.39 · 6 tier-1/2 wins · 3 finish wins over 12 documented bouts

In the UFC: 3-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.0 wins over .500

Zarah Fairn

Full career not yet synced for Zarah Fairn — 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 +0.2 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

4775.30/min · norm 3.56
Sig. strikes landed
1714.55/min · norm 3.85
2682.98/min · norm 3.51
Sig. strikes absorbed
2787.40/min · norm 2.33
46.8%norm 46.65%
Striking accuracy
31.5%norm 51.0%
68.6%norm 52.45%
Striking defense
45.9%norm 64.3%
00.00/15 · norm 0.08
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.17

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

Jacqueline Cavalcanti

Distance 97.2% (norm 80.3%) · Clinch 2.8% (norm 9.7%) · Ground 0.0% (norm 7.5%)

Zarah Fairn

Distance 97.1% (norm 72.1%) · Clinch 2.9% (norm 16.0%) · Ground 0.0% (norm 11.9%)

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

Jacqueline Cavalcanti

Head 70.6% (norm 75.2%) · Body 11.8% (norm 14.3%) · Legs 17.7% (norm 8.8%)

Zarah Fairn

Head 90.8% (norm 74.7%) · Body 6.1% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 3.1% (norm 9.0%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Cavalcanti L/AAccWomen's Bantamweight med Fairn L/AAccWomen's Featherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 454 / 990 45.9% 38.3% 160 / 527 30.4% 47.3%
In the clinch 23 / 29 79.3% 73.3% 11 / 16 too few to rate 78.3%
On the ground 0 / 0 too few to rate 70.8% 0 / 0 too few to rate 69.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 234 / 719 32.5% 37.7% 128 / 493 26.0% 42.9%
To the body 90 / 120 75.0% 70.0% 26 / 33 78.8% 79.1%
To the legs 153 / 180 85.0% 80.9% 17 / 17 too few to rate 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 Cavalcanti L/AOpp accWomen's Bantamweight med vs Fairn L/AOpp accWomen's Featherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 246 / 819 30.0% 41.3% 207 / 417 49.6% 32.4%
In the clinch 19 / 28 67.9% 74.7% 31 / 45 68.9% 72.7%
On the ground 3 / 6 too few to rate 74.2% 40 / 52 76.9% 72.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 132 / 666 19.8% 38.1% 149 / 355 42.0% 26.3%
To the body 55 / 91 60.4% 73.2% 59 / 76 77.6% 60.3%
To the legs 81 / 96 84.4% 80.9% 70 / 83 84.3% 67.6%
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 0.91
Takedowns landed
00.0% acc · 0.00/15 · norm 1.18
1885.7% def · norm 62.5%
Takedowns stopped
360.0% def · norm 71.9%
2:122.4% of cage time · norm 26.55%
Control time
0:351.6% of cage time · norm 24.0%
11:411:56 per 15 · norm 3:19
Time under control
7:533:08 per 15 · norm 2:26
00.00/15 · 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 — Cavalcanti has more cage time on record.

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