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Joe Slick vs.
Jason DeLucia

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

1-1-0 Joe Slick · UFC
1-2-0 Jason DeLucia · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

1-1-0
UFC record
1-2-0
Middleweight
Division (benchmark)
Open Weight
48.8
AgeΔ 8.2 yrs
57
6'0"
HeightΔ 1"
5'11"
Reach
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
315.7
Layoff (months)Δ 4.8 mo
320.5
LW
Last 5 (newest first)
LWL
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.

Joe Slick is a submission threat — 4.49 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.47 Middleweight norm.
Jason DeLucia is a submission threat — 8.09 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 1.34 Open Weight norm.
Joe Slick is hard to hit — absorbs 0.30 sig. strikes per minute, vs a 3.20 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.

Joe Slick

Full career not yet synced for Joe Slick — tier grading appears once their record documentation lands (refreshes weekly).

In the UFC: 0-0 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.0 wins over .500

Jason DeLucia

Full career not yet synced for Jason DeLucia — 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 +0.3 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

100.75/min · norm 3.25
Sig. strikes landed
40.43/min · norm 1.46
40.30/min · norm 3.20
Sig. strikes absorbed
20.22/min · norm 1.68
55.6%norm 47.4%
Striking accuracy
66.7%norm 45.8%
80.0%norm 53.8%
Striking defense
50.0%norm 49.0%
00.00/15 · norm 0.32
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.00

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

Joe Slick

Distance 44.4% (norm 79.4%) · Clinch 11.1% (norm 9.1%) · Ground 44.4% (norm 10.3%)

Jason DeLucia

Distance 83.3% (norm 50.2%) · Clinch 0.0% (norm 14.9%) · Ground 16.7% (norm 28.7%)

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

Joe Slick

Head 83.3% (norm 78.0%) · Body 16.7% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 0.0% (norm 8.4%)

Jason DeLucia

Head 50.0% (norm 81.2%) · Body 33.3% (norm 8.0%) · Legs 16.7% (norm 5.2%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Slick L/AAccMiddleweight med DeLucia L/AAccOpen Weight med
BY POSITION
At distance 2 / 8 too few to rate 40.5% 3 / 5 too few to rate 27.8%
In the clinch 2 / 2 too few to rate 70.3% 0 / 0 too few to rate 63.8%
On the ground 6 / 8 too few to rate 69.1% 1 / 1 too few to rate 65.8%
BY TARGET
To the head 7 / 15 too few to rate 38.9% 2 / 3 too few to rate 39.3%
To the body 3 / 3 too few to rate 71.7% 1 / 2 too few to rate 90.5%
To the legs 0 / 0 too few to rate 83.3% 1 / 1 too few to rate 53.5%

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 · Open Weight: 11 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 Slick L/AOpp accMiddleweight med vs DeLucia L/AOpp accOpen Weight med
BY POSITION
At distance 3 / 18 too few to rate 39.5% 0 / 2 too few to rate 37.0%
In the clinch 0 / 1 too few to rate 70.9% 0 / 0 too few to rate 66.7%
On the ground 1 / 1 too few to rate 69.0% 2 / 2 too few to rate 67.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 4 / 20 too few to rate 37.9% 1 / 3 too few to rate 47.0%
To the body 0 / 0 too few to rate 71.3% 1 / 1 too few to rate 87.9%
To the legs 0 / 0 too few to rate 82.1% 0 / 0 too few to rate 61.2%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

150.0% acc · 1.12/15 · norm 1.42
Takedowns landed
150.0% acc · 1.62/15 · norm 1.15
562.5% def · norm 63.1%
Takedowns stopped
133.3% def · norm 66.7%
2:4921.1% of cage time · norm 19.75%
Control time
0:0910.2% of cage time · norm 21.95%
7:368:31 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
0:330:53 per 15 · norm 0:39
44.49/15 · norm 0.47
Submission attempts
58.09/15 · norm 1.34

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

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