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Javid Basharat vs.
Mateus Mendonca

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

4-2-0 (1 NC) Javid Basharat · UFC
0-3-0 Mateus Mendonca · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

4-2-0 (1 NC)
UFC record
0-3-0
Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Flyweight
30
AgeΔ 3 yrs
27
5'9"
HeightΔ 3"
5'6"
69"
ReachΔ 2"
71"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5.9
Layoff (months)Δ 23.5 mo
29.4
WLLNCW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLL
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.

Mateus Mendonca owns the mat — in control 35% of cage time, vs a 17% Flyweight norm.
Mateus Mendonca hunts takedowns — 2.60 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.30 Flyweight norm.
Javid Basharat outworks the Bantamweight division — 5.22 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.52 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.

Javid Basharat

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 52
Tier 3 — regional circuit 100

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.36 · 5 tier-1/2 wins · 11 finish wins over 18 documented bouts

In the UFC: 1-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.1 wins over .500

Mateus Mendonca

Full career not yet synced for Mateus Mendonca — 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 +1.0 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

4405.22/min · norm 3.52
Sig. strikes landed
501.44/min · norm 3.49
2593.08/min · norm 3.58
Sig. strikes absorbed
1434.13/min · norm 3.24
53.4%norm 43.4%
Striking accuracy
37.0%norm 44.6%
63.9%norm 56.6%
Striking defense
28.9%norm 56.4%
10.18/15 · norm 0.30
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.18

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

Javid Basharat

Distance 89.1% (norm 87.4%) · Clinch 5.1% (norm 5.7%) · Ground 5.8% (norm 6.5%)

Mateus Mendonca

Distance 80.7% (norm 85.1%) · Clinch 4.4% (norm 6.0%) · Ground 14.8% (norm 7.3%)

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

Javid Basharat

Head 70.9% (norm 77.4%) · Body 19.7% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 9.5% (norm 8.4%)

Mateus Mendonca

Head 81.5% (norm 75.9%) · Body 9.6% (norm 13.3%) · Legs 8.9% (norm 9.3%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Basharat L/AAccBantamweight med Mendonca L/AAccFlyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 365 / 734 49.7% 39.0% 33 / 109 30.3% 40.0%
In the clinch 31 / 42 73.8% 68.7% 6 / 6 too few to rate 70.4%
On the ground 44 / 48 91.7% 70.2% 11 / 20 too few to rate 69.7%
BY TARGET
To the head 250 / 584 42.8% 34.9% 36 / 110 32.7% 37.6%
To the body 125 / 162 77.2% 66.8% 8 / 13 too few to rate 68.5%
To the legs 65 / 78 83.3% 79.4% 6 / 12 too few to rate 80.0%

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 (Bantamweight: 117 fighters · Flyweight: 73 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 Basharat L/AOpp accBantamweight med vs Mendonca L/AOpp accFlyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 245 / 688 35.6% 39.3% 72 / 113 63.7% 40.1%
In the clinch 11 / 18 too few to rate 70.4% 16 / 22 too few to rate 68.8%
On the ground 3 / 12 too few to rate 72.4% 55 / 66 83.3% 71.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 147 / 544 27.0% 34.9% 98 / 148 66.2% 35.2%
To the body 48 / 82 58.5% 66.0% 31 / 35 88.6% 68.2%
To the legs 64 / 92 69.6% 79.1% 14 / 18 too few to rate 80.3%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

936.0% acc · 1.60/15 · norm 1.12
Takedowns landed
627.3% acc · 2.60/15 · norm 1.30
2683.9% def · norm 66.7%
Takedowns stopped
555.6% def · norm 62.5%
14:4017.4% of cage time · norm 17.4%
Control time
12:1735.4% of cage time · norm 17.0%
6:131:06 per 15 · norm 2:24
Time under control
11:415:03 per 15 · norm 2:44
00.00/15 · norm 0.28
Submission attempts
10.43/15 · norm 0.58

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

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