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Juan Manuel Puig vs.
Adriano Martins

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

0-2-0 Juan Manuel Puig · UFC
4-3-0 Adriano Martins · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

0-2-0
UFC record
4-3-0
Featherweight
Division (benchmark)
Lightweight
37.3
AgeΔ 6.3 yrs
43.6
5'9"
HeightΔ 1"
5'10"
Reach
72"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
140.4
Layoff (months)Δ 33.5 mo
106.9
LL
Last 5 (newest first)
LLWWW
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.

Adriano Martins carries real power — 0.52 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.25 Lightweight norm.
Juan Manuel Puig absorbs 7.17 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.47 Featherweight norm — hittable.
Juan Manuel Puig rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.19 Featherweight 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.

Juan Manuel Puig

Full career not yet synced for Juan Manuel Puig — 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

Adriano Martins

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

In the UFC: 3-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.1 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

134.91/min · norm 3.54
Sig. strikes landed
1031.79/min · norm 3.42
197.17/min · norm 3.47
Sig. strikes absorbed
1081.88/min · norm 3.37
23.6%norm 45.0%
Striking accuracy
44.0%norm 43.5%
51.3%norm 54.85%
Striking defense
68.4%norm 56.3%
00.00/15 · norm 0.29
Knockdowns
20.52/15 · norm 0.25

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

Juan Manuel Puig

Distance 100.0% (norm 85.7%) · Clinch 0.0% (norm 6.1%) · Ground 0.0% (norm 6.5%)

Adriano Martins

Distance 94.0% (norm 82.8%) · Clinch 1.3% (norm 7.6%) · Ground 4.7% (norm 8.0%)

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

Juan Manuel Puig

Head 72.7% (norm 77.4%) · Body 1.8% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 25.5% (norm 7.8%)

Adriano Martins

Head 73.9% (norm 78.2%) · Body 7.3% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 18.8% (norm 7.9%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Puig L/AAccFeatherweight med Martins L/AAccLightweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 13 / 55 23.6% 40.9% 96 / 220 43.6% 37.9%
In the clinch 0 / 0 too few to rate 70.8% 0 / 3 too few to rate 67.3%
On the ground 0 / 0 too few to rate 69.2% 7 / 11 too few to rate 69.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 4 / 40 10.0% 37.2% 55 / 173 31.8% 35.0%
To the body 1 / 1 too few to rate 68.2% 11 / 17 too few to rate 69.1%
To the legs 8 / 14 too few to rate 80.7% 37 / 44 84.1% 81.9%

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 (Featherweight: 126 fighters · Lightweight: 201 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 Puig L/AOpp accFeatherweight med vs Martins L/AOpp accLightweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 12 / 28 42.9% 39.2% 104 / 336 31.0% 38.9%
In the clinch 0 / 2 too few to rate 70.3% 2 / 4 too few to rate 68.6%
On the ground 7 / 9 too few to rate 69.4% 2 / 2 too few to rate 68.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 19 / 39 48.7% 35.9% 35 / 214 16.4% 35.1%
To the body 0 / 0 too few to rate 67.9% 39 / 74 52.7% 68.1%
To the legs 0 / 0 too few to rate 81.5% 34 / 54 63.0% 81.5%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

0— acc · 0.00/15 · norm 1.19
Takedowns landed
480.0% acc · 1.04/15 · norm 1.38
0— def · norm 61.5%
Takedowns stopped
685.7% def · norm 64.0%
0:000.0% of cage time · norm 16.7%
Control time
6:1610.9% of cage time · norm 19.5%
0:090:50 per 15 · norm 3:12
Time under control
0:150:03 per 15 · norm 2:46
00.00/15 · norm 0.46
Submission attempts
20.52/15 · norm 0.49

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

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