Skip to content

Joanderson Brito vs. Jordan Leavitt

UFC 8-3-0 vs. 6-4-0

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
8-3-0
UFC record
6-4-0
Featherweight
Division (benchmark)
Lightweight
31
AgeΔ 0 yrs
31
5'8"
HeightΔ 1"
5'9"
72"
ReachΔ 1"
71"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
1
Layoff (months)Δ 3.5 mo
4.5
WWWLL
Last 5 (newest first)
LWWLW

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
Joanderson Brito is a submission threat — 1.34 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.45 Featherweight norm.
Joanderson Brito hunts takedowns — 3.02 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.17 Featherweight norm.
Jordan Leavitt is a submission threat — 1.05 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.48 Lightweight norm.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Joanderson Brito

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 83
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 10
Tier 3 — regional circuit 102

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.28 · 9 tier-1/2 wins · 16 finish wins over 25 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.2 wins over .500

Jordan Leavitt

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 74
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 10
Tier 3 — regional circuit 50

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.36 · 8 tier-1/2 wins · 9 finish wins over 17 documented bouts

In the UFC: 2-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.7 wins over .500

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

2082.33/min · norm 3.52
Sig. strikes landed
1612.25/min · norm 3.44
2102.35/min · norm 3.50
Sig. strikes absorbed lower is better
1171.63/min · norm 3.38
50.6%norm 44.7%
Striking accuracy
58.3%norm 43.65%
43.1%norm 54.8%
Striking defense
58.9%norm 56.3%
10.17/15 · norm 0.29
Knockdowns
10.21/15 · norm 0.25

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

Joanderson Brito

Distance 72.7% (norm 85.9%) · Clinch 10.0% (norm 6.0%) · Ground 17.3% (norm 6.5%)

Jordan Leavitt

Distance 81.9% (norm 83.1%) · Clinch 10.5% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 7.6% (norm 8.0%)

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

Joanderson Brito

Head 71.5% (norm 77.5%) · Body 9.7% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 18.7% (norm 7.9%)

Jordan Leavitt

Head 36.6% (norm 78.0%) · Body 31.2% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 32.2% (norm 8.0%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Brito L/AAccFeatherweight med Leavitt L/AAccLightweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 124 / 299 41.5% 40.5% 129 / 226 57.1% 38.3%
In the clinch 31 / 41 75.6% 70.5% 20 / 29 69.0% 67.5%
On the ground 53 / 71 74.6% 69.3% 12 / 21 too few to rate 68.8%
BY TARGET
To the head 115 / 294 39.1% 37.1% 40 / 101 39.6% 35.1%
To the body 28 / 40 70.0% 68.0% 41 / 86 47.7% 69.1%
To the legs 65 / 77 84.4% 80.3% 80 / 89 89.9% 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 (Featherweight: 127 fighters · Lightweight: 204 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 Brito L/AOpp accFeatherweight med vs Leavitt L/AOpp accLightweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 111 / 255 43.5% 39.3% 79 / 238 33.2% 38.8%
In the clinch 63 / 75 84.0% 70.3% 12 / 13 too few to rate 68.6%
On the ground 36 / 39 92.3% 69.4% 26 / 34 76.5% 68.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 130 / 254 51.2% 35.9% 44 / 169 26.0% 35.2%
To the body 56 / 87 64.4% 68.0% 55 / 70 78.6% 68.2%
To the legs 24 / 28 85.7% 81.5% 18 / 46 39.1% 81.5%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
1866.7% acc · 3.02/15 · norm 1.17
Takedowns landed
1429.2% acc · 2.93/15 · norm 1.34
1557.7% def · norm 61.5%
Takedowns stopped
330.0% def · norm 63.7%
32:1636.1% of cage time · norm 16.5%
Control time
28:3139.8% of cage time · norm 18.95%
35:055:53 per 15 · norm 3:11
Time under control lower is better
19:324:05 per 15 · norm 2:50
81.34/15 · norm 0.45
Submission attempts
51.05/15 · norm 0.48

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