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Jamie Mullarkey vs.
Muhammad Naimov

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

6-7-0 Jamie Mullarkey · UFC
5-2-0 Muhammad Naimov · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

6-7-0
UFC record
5-2-0
Lightweight
Division (benchmark)
Featherweight
31
AgeΔ 0 yrs
31
6'0"
HeightΔ 3"
5'9"
74"
ReachΔ 4"
70"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6.1
Layoff (months)Δ 1.9 mo
8
LWLLW
Last 5 (newest first)
LWWLW
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.

Jamie Mullarkey hunts takedowns — 2.46 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.38 Lightweight norm.
Muhammad Naimov owns the mat — in control 27% of cage time, vs a 17% Featherweight norm.
Muhammad Naimov hunts takedowns — 1.79 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.19 Featherweight 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.

Jamie Mullarkey

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 67
Tier 3 — regional circuit 122

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.71 · 6 tier-1/2 wins · 13 finish wins over 27 documented bouts

In the UFC: 3-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.7 wins over .500

Muhammad Naimov

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 53
Tier 3 — regional circuit 81

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.1 · 5 tier-1/2 wins · 8 finish wins over 17 documented bouts

In the UFC: 3-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.1 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

5004.10/min · norm 3.42
Sig. strikes landed
1752.32/min · norm 3.54
5214.28/min · norm 3.37
Sig. strikes absorbed
2152.85/min · norm 3.47
46.6%norm 43.5%
Striking accuracy
40.5%norm 45.0%
54.4%norm 56.3%
Striking defense
44.7%norm 54.85%
20.25/15 · norm 0.25
Knockdowns
10.20/15 · norm 0.29

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

Jamie Mullarkey

Distance 89.8% (norm 82.8%) · Clinch 6.5% (norm 7.6%) · Ground 3.6% (norm 8.0%)

Muhammad Naimov

Distance 79.9% (norm 85.7%) · Clinch 10.2% (norm 6.1%) · Ground 10.0% (norm 6.5%)

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

Jamie Mullarkey

Head 71.5% (norm 78.2%) · Body 15.1% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 13.4% (norm 7.9%)

Muhammad Naimov

Head 76.6% (norm 77.4%) · Body 14.1% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 9.3% (norm 7.8%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Mullarkey L/AAccLightweight med Naimov L/AAccFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 429 / 963 44.5% 37.9% 122 / 345 35.4% 40.9%
In the clinch 46 / 70 65.7% 67.3% 29 / 44 65.9% 70.8%
On the ground 25 / 39 64.1% 69.1% 24 / 43 55.8% 69.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 259 / 766 33.8% 35.0% 104 / 331 31.4% 37.2%
To the body 109 / 162 67.3% 69.1% 38 / 61 62.3% 68.2%
To the legs 132 / 144 91.7% 81.9% 33 / 40 82.5% 80.7%

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 (Lightweight: 201 fighters · Featherweight: 126 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 Mullarkey L/AOpp accLightweight med vs Naimov L/AOpp accFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 428 / 1014 42.2% 38.9% 145 / 297 48.8% 39.2%
In the clinch 41 / 59 69.5% 68.6% 60 / 78 76.9% 70.3%
On the ground 52 / 70 74.3% 68.0% 10 / 14 too few to rate 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 347 / 893 38.9% 35.1% 85 / 224 37.9% 35.9%
To the body 101 / 169 59.8% 68.1% 72 / 94 76.6% 67.9%
To the legs 73 / 81 90.1% 81.5% 58 / 71 81.7% 81.5%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

2030.8% acc · 2.46/15 · norm 1.38
Takedowns landed
934.6% acc · 1.79/15 · norm 1.19
1270.6% def · norm 64.0%
Takedowns stopped
2573.5% def · norm 61.5%
27:0722.3% of cage time · norm 19.5%
Control time
20:0726.7% of cage time · norm 16.7%
5:580:44 per 15 · norm 2:46
Time under control
16:023:11 per 15 · norm 3:12
10.12/15 · norm 0.49
Submission attempts
10.20/15 · norm 0.46

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

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