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Katlyn Cerminara vs.
Amanda Ribas

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

11-6-0 Katlyn Cerminara · UFC
7-6-0 Amanda Ribas · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

11-6-0
UFC record
7-6-0
Women's Flyweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Strawweight
37.6
AgeΔ 4.7 yrs
32.9
5'9"
HeightΔ 5"
5'4"
68"
ReachΔ 2"
66"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
28.9
Layoff (months)Δ 16.5 mo
12.4
LLWWW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLWL
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.

Amanda Ribas is a submission threat — 0.56 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.29 Women's Strawweight norm.
Amanda Ribas hunts takedowns — 2.05 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.10 Women's Strawweight norm.
Katlyn Cerminara rarely shoots — 0.31 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.02 Women's Flyweight 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.

Katlyn Cerminara

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 116
Tier 3 — regional circuit 70

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.13 · 11 tier-1/2 wins · 3 finish wins over 24 documented bouts

In the UFC: 9-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.2 wins over .500

Amanda Ribas

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 76
Tier 3 — regional circuit 61

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.84 · 7 tier-1/2 wins · 8 finish wins over 20 documented bouts

In the UFC: 6-6 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.6 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

11044.58/min · norm 3.91
Sig. strikes landed
6864.26/min · norm 3.77
10804.48/min · norm 3.81
Sig. strikes absorbed
5303.29/min · norm 3.94
34.9%norm 44.9%
Striking accuracy
40.0%norm 44.5%
62.3%norm 55.95%
Striking defense
60.2%norm 54.4%
10.06/15 · norm 0.09
Knockdowns
10.09/15 · norm 0.00

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

Katlyn Cerminara

Distance 93.9% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 3.9% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 2.2% (norm 4.9%)

Amanda Ribas

Distance 91.6% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 3.1% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 5.3% (norm 5.0%)

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

Katlyn Cerminara

Head 79.8% (norm 78.1%) · Body 13.8% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 6.4% (norm 7.7%)

Amanda Ribas

Head 76.6% (norm 76.4%) · Body 12.9% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 10.4% (norm 9.1%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Cerminara L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med Ribas L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 960 / 2967 32.4% 39.9% 589 / 1573 37.4% 38.3%
In the clinch 86 / 123 69.9% 73.3% 36 / 53 67.9% 72.6%
On the ground 58 / 69 84.1% 74.7% 61 / 91 67.0% 75.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 677 / 2520 26.9% 34.9% 421 / 1316 32.0% 35.4%
To the body 269 / 437 61.6% 69.5% 123 / 222 55.4% 69.3%
To the legs 158 / 202 78.2% 82.6% 142 / 179 79.3% 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 Cerminara L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med vs Ribas L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 942 / 2687 35.1% 38.8% 413 / 1180 35.0% 39.7%
In the clinch 98 / 129 76.0% 74.1% 43 / 60 71.7% 71.5%
On the ground 40 / 47 85.1% 73.4% 74 / 90 82.2% 74.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 563 / 2131 26.4% 35.3% 369 / 1074 34.4% 36.0%
To the body 186 / 325 57.2% 69.0% 108 / 191 56.5% 68.4%
To the legs 331 / 407 81.3% 78.7% 53 / 65 81.5% 79.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

515.6% acc · 0.31/15 · norm 1.02
Takedowns landed
2252.4% acc · 2.05/15 · norm 1.10
2650.0% def · norm 58.95%
Takedowns stopped
2882.4% def · norm 64.1%
19:007.9% of cage time · norm 19.15%
Control time
43:0026.7% of cage time · norm 19.4%
38:452:24 per 15 · norm 3:03
Time under control
24:442:18 per 15 · norm 3:00
50.31/15 · norm 0.32
Submission attempts
60.56/15 · norm 0.29

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

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