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JJ Aldrich vs.
Danielle Taylor

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

11-6-0 JJ Aldrich · UFC
2-3-0 Danielle Taylor · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

11-6-0
UFC record
2-3-0
Women's Flyweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Strawweight
33.9
AgeΔ 2.9 yrs
36.8
5'5"
HeightΔ 5"
5'0"
67"
ReachΔ 7"
60"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
3.6
Layoff (months)Δ 92.5 mo
96.1
WWLWW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLWWL
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.

Danielle Taylor rarely shoots — 0.20 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.10 Women's Strawweight norm.
Danielle Taylor defends head shots well — opponents land just 21%, vs a 36% Women's Strawweight norm.
JJ Aldrich rarely shoots — 0.70 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.02 Women's Flyweight 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.

JJ Aldrich

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 116
Tier 3 — regional circuit 41

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.99 · 11 tier-1/2 wins · 3 finish wins over 22 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.0 wins over .500

Danielle Taylor

Full career not yet synced for Danielle Taylor — 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

9223.92/min · norm 3.91
Sig. strikes landed
2062.75/min · norm 3.77
10224.34/min · norm 3.81
Sig. strikes absorbed
2483.31/min · norm 3.94
46.1%norm 44.9%
Striking accuracy
29.5%norm 44.5%
61.9%norm 55.95%
Striking defense
71.7%norm 54.4%
00.00/15 · norm 0.09
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.00

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

JJ Aldrich

Distance 87.6% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 7.0% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 5.4% (norm 4.9%)

Danielle Taylor

Distance 97.3% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 2.6% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 0.1% (norm 5.0%)

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

JJ Aldrich

Head 88.4% (norm 78.1%) · Body 7.9% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 3.7% (norm 7.7%)

Danielle Taylor

Head 83.8% (norm 76.4%) · Body 7.6% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 8.6% (norm 9.1%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Aldrich L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med Taylor L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 741 / 1752 42.3% 39.9% 195 / 680 28.7% 38.3%
In the clinch 102 / 139 73.4% 73.3% 10 / 18 too few to rate 72.6%
On the ground 79 / 108 73.1% 74.7% 1 / 1 too few to rate 75.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 746 / 1768 42.2% 34.9% 130 / 586 22.2% 35.4%
To the body 118 / 158 74.7% 69.5% 32 / 53 60.4% 69.3%
To the legs 58 / 73 79.5% 82.6% 44 / 60 73.3% 77.9%

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 (Women's Flyweight: 46 fighters · Women's Strawweight: 63 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 Aldrich L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med vs Taylor L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 853 / 2447 34.9% 38.8% 222 / 840 26.4% 39.7%
In the clinch 153 / 216 70.8% 74.1% 24 / 33 72.7% 71.5%
On the ground 16 / 20 too few to rate 73.4% 2 / 3 too few to rate 74.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 528 / 1975 26.7% 35.3% 152 / 711 21.4% 36.0%
To the body 274 / 425 64.5% 69.0% 58 / 96 60.4% 68.4%
To the legs 220 / 283 77.7% 78.7% 38 / 69 55.1% 79.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

1125.6% acc · 0.70/15 · norm 1.02
Takedowns landed
120.0% acc · 0.20/15 · norm 1.10
2767.5% def · norm 58.95%
Takedowns stopped
770.0% def · norm 64.1%
39:0016.6% of cage time · norm 19.15%
Control time
0:010.0% of cage time · norm 19.4%
16:301:03 per 15 · norm 3:03
Time under control
3:160:39 per 15 · norm 3:00
00.00/15 · norm 0.32
Submission attempts
10.20/15 · norm 0.29

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

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