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John Lewis vs.
Lowell Anderson

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 John Lewis · UFC
0-1-0 Lowell Anderson · 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
0-1-0
Lightweight
Division (benchmark)
Middleweight
Age
6'0"
HeightΔ 6"
5'6"
Reach
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
308.6
Layoff (months)Δ 13.8 mo
322.4
LW
Last 5 (newest first)
L
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.

Lowell Anderson's takedown defense leaks — 0% stopped, vs a 63% Middleweight norm.
Lowell Anderson rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.42 Middleweight norm.
John Lewis is hard to hit — absorbs 0.96 sig. strikes per minute, vs a 3.37 Lightweight 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.

John Lewis

Full career not yet synced for John Lewis — 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 +1.0 wins over .500

Lowell Anderson

Full career not yet synced for Lowell Anderson — 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

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

201.91/min · norm 3.42
Sig. strikes landed
90.88/min · norm 3.25
100.96/min · norm 3.37
Sig. strikes absorbed
201.96/min · norm 3.20
32.3%norm 43.5%
Striking accuracy
27.3%norm 47.4%
72.2%norm 56.3%
Striking defense
67.2%norm 53.8%
00.00/15 · norm 0.25
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.32

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

John Lewis

Distance 75.8% (norm 82.8%) · Clinch 24.2% (norm 7.6%) · Ground 0.0% (norm 8.0%)

Lowell Anderson

Distance 87.9% (norm 79.4%) · Clinch 12.1% (norm 9.1%) · Ground 0.0% (norm 10.3%)

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

John Lewis

Head 95.2% (norm 78.2%) · Body 4.8% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 0.0% (norm 7.9%)

Lowell Anderson

Head 84.8% (norm 78.0%) · Body 12.1% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 3.0% (norm 8.4%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Lewis L/AAccLightweight med Anderson L/AAccMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 11 / 47 23.4% 37.9% 9 / 29 31.0% 40.5%
In the clinch 9 / 15 too few to rate 67.3% 0 / 4 too few to rate 70.3%
On the ground 0 / 0 too few to rate 69.1% 0 / 0 too few to rate 69.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 18 / 59 30.5% 35.0% 6 / 28 21.4% 38.9%
To the body 2 / 3 too few to rate 69.1% 3 / 4 too few to rate 71.7%
To the legs 0 / 0 too few to rate 81.9% 0 / 1 too few to rate 83.3%

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 (Lightweight: 201 fighters · Middleweight: 174 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 Lewis L/AOpp accLightweight med vs Anderson L/AOpp accMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 10 / 32 31.2% 38.9% 11 / 46 23.9% 39.5%
In the clinch 0 / 4 too few to rate 68.6% 9 / 15 too few to rate 70.9%
On the ground 0 / 0 too few to rate 68.0% 0 / 0 too few to rate 69.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 7 / 31 22.6% 35.1% 18 / 58 31.0% 37.9%
To the body 3 / 4 too few to rate 68.1% 2 / 3 too few to rate 71.3%
To the legs 0 / 1 too few to rate 81.5% 0 / 0 too few to rate 82.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

1100.0% acc · 1.43/15 · norm 1.38
Takedowns landed
00.0% acc · 0.00/15 · norm 1.42
1100.0% def · norm 64.0%
Takedowns stopped
00.0% def · norm 63.1%
3:1931.7% of cage time · norm 19.5%
Control time
0:030.5% of cage time · norm 19.75%
0:030:04 per 15 · norm 2:46
Time under control
3:194:52 per 15 · norm 3:00
00.00/15 · norm 0.49
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.47

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

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