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Jared Cannonier vs.
Dominick Reyes

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

11-10-0 Jared Cannonier · UFC
10-5-0 Dominick Reyes · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

11-10-0
UFC record
10-5-0
Middleweight
Division (benchmark)
Light Heavyweight
42
AgeΔ 6 yrs
36
5'11"
HeightΔ 5"
6'4"
77"
ReachΔ 0"
77"
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
0.6
Layoff (months)Δ 3.2 mo
3.8
LLWLL
Last 5 (newest first)
WLWWW
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.

Dominick Reyes carries real power — 0.89 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.40 Light Heavyweight norm.
Dominick Reyes rarely shoots — 0.25 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.87 Light Heavyweight norm.
Jared Cannonier rarely shoots — 0.77 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.42 Middleweight 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.

Jared Cannonier

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 1110
Tier 3 — regional circuit 70

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.07 · 11 tier-1/2 wins · 13 finish wins over 28 documented bouts

In the UFC: 8-9 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +4.3 wins over .500

Dominick Reyes

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 105
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 10
Tier 3 — regional circuit 50

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.44 · 11 tier-1/2 wins · 12 finish wins over 21 documented bouts

In the UFC: 7-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +3.7 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

12454.25/min · norm 3.25
Sig. strikes landed
5884.99/min · norm 3.41
12774.36/min · norm 3.20
Sig. strikes absorbed
4013.40/min · norm 3.35
49.4%norm 47.4%
Striking accuracy
53.6%norm 48.3%
55.9%norm 53.8%
Striking defense
49.6%norm 52.9%
70.36/15 · norm 0.32
Knockdowns
70.89/15 · norm 0.40

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

Jared Cannonier

Distance 88.1% (norm 79.4%) · Clinch 7.4% (norm 9.1%) · Ground 4.5% (norm 10.3%)

Dominick Reyes

Distance 82.8% (norm 80.5%) · Clinch 6.8% (norm 8.6%) · Ground 10.4% (norm 10.4%)

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

Jared Cannonier

Head 76.1% (norm 78.0%) · Body 13.5% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 10.4% (norm 8.4%)

Dominick Reyes

Head 70.3% (norm 79.2%) · Body 17.3% (norm 11.7%) · Legs 12.3% (norm 9.7%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Cannonier L/AAccMiddleweight med Reyes L/AAccLight Heavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 1007 / 2223 45.3% 40.5% 440 / 908 48.5% 41.4%
In the clinch 146 / 186 78.5% 70.3% 60 / 74 81.1% 70.9%
On the ground 92 / 113 81.4% 69.1% 88 / 114 77.2% 72.3%
BY TARGET
To the head 779 / 1918 40.6% 38.9% 331 / 771 42.9% 38.9%
To the body 252 / 341 73.9% 71.7% 141 / 190 74.2% 71.9%
To the legs 214 / 263 81.4% 83.3% 116 / 135 85.9% 81.8%

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 · Light Heavyweight: 93 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 Cannonier L/AOpp accMiddleweight med vs Reyes L/AOpp accLight Heavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 1137 / 2668 42.6% 39.5% 371 / 746 49.7% 40.4%
In the clinch 83 / 127 65.4% 70.9% 16 / 26 61.5% 68.7%
On the ground 57 / 98 58.2% 69.0% 14 / 23 too few to rate 70.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 870 / 2369 36.7% 37.9% 212 / 542 39.1% 37.5%
To the body 233 / 328 71.0% 71.3% 82 / 115 71.3% 72.3%
To the legs 174 / 196 88.8% 82.1% 107 / 138 77.5% 83.0%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

1545.5% acc · 0.77/15 · norm 1.42
Takedowns landed
228.6% acc · 0.25/15 · norm 0.87
4664.8% def · norm 63.1%
Takedowns stopped
3482.9% def · norm 66.7%
36:2512.4% of cage time · norm 19.75%
Control time
8:157.0% of cage time · norm 16.5%
36:091:51 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
8:541:07 per 15 · norm 2:48
00.00/15 · norm 0.47
Submission attempts
20.25/15 · norm 0.27

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

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