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Joanne Wood vs.
Jessica Andrade

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

9-8-0 Joanne Wood · UFC
17-13-0 Jessica Andrade · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

9-8-0
UFC record
17-13-0
Women's Flyweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Strawweight
40.6
AgeΔ 5.7 yrs
34.9
5'6"
HeightΔ 5"
5'1"
65"
ReachΔ 3"
62"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
28.9
Layoff (months)Δ 17.2 mo
11.7
WWLLL
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLWW
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.

Joanne Wood carries real power — 0.24 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.09 Women's Flyweight norm.
Jessica Andrade hunts takedowns — 2.10 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.10 Women's Strawweight norm.
Joanne Wood outworks the Women's Flyweight division — 7.10 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.91 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.

Joanne Wood

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 98
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 10
Tier 3 — regional circuit 70

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.92 · 10 tier-1/2 wins · 6 finish wins over 25 documented bouts

In the UFC: 4-6 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.9 wins over .500

Jessica Andrade

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 1713
Tier 3 — regional circuit 92

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.94 · 17 tier-1/2 wins · 18 finish wins over 41 documented bouts

In the UFC: 13-11 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.9 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

13297.10/min · norm 3.91
Sig. strikes landed
18246.37/min · norm 3.77
9154.89/min · norm 3.81
Sig. strikes absorbed
15975.58/min · norm 3.94
51.5%norm 44.9%
Striking accuracy
48.7%norm 44.5%
51.5%norm 55.95%
Striking defense
54.2%norm 54.4%
30.24/15 · norm 0.09
Knockdowns
70.37/15 · norm 0.00

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

Joanne Wood

Distance 85.1% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 11.3% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 3.6% (norm 4.9%)

Jessica Andrade

Distance 79.9% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 13.3% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 6.8% (norm 5.0%)

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

Joanne Wood

Head 59.9% (norm 78.1%) · Body 18.4% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 21.6% (norm 7.7%)

Jessica Andrade

Head 76.4% (norm 76.4%) · Body 15.2% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 8.4% (norm 9.1%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Wood L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med Andrade L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 1046 / 2196 47.6% 39.9% 1318 / 2995 44.0% 38.3%
In the clinch 224 / 292 76.7% 73.3% 308 / 497 62.0% 72.6%
On the ground 59 / 94 62.8% 74.7% 198 / 255 77.6% 75.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 581 / 1547 37.6% 34.9% 1147 / 2863 40.1% 35.4%
To the body 323 / 476 67.9% 69.5% 406 / 570 71.2% 69.3%
To the legs 425 / 559 76.0% 82.6% 271 / 314 86.3% 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 Wood L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med vs Andrade L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 691 / 1596 43.3% 38.8% 1260 / 2987 42.2% 39.7%
In the clinch 152 / 197 77.2% 74.1% 241 / 355 67.9% 71.5%
On the ground 72 / 93 77.4% 73.4% 96 / 142 67.6% 74.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 554 / 1394 39.7% 35.3% 1094 / 2853 38.3% 36.0%
To the body 255 / 334 76.3% 69.0% 287 / 401 71.6% 68.4%
To the legs 106 / 158 67.1% 78.7% 216 / 230 93.9% 79.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

1955.9% acc · 1.52/15 · norm 1.02
Takedowns landed
4054.1% acc · 2.10/15 · norm 1.10
2058.8% def · norm 58.95%
Takedowns stopped
6975.0% def · norm 64.1%
35:0018.7% of cage time · norm 19.15%
Control time
64:3422.6% of cage time · norm 19.4%
38:413:06 per 15 · norm 3:03
Time under control
27:521:27 per 15 · norm 3:00
40.32/15 · norm 0.32
Submission attempts
60.31/15 · norm 0.29

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

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