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Kazuki Tokudome vs.
Yui Chul Nam

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

1-3-0 Kazuki Tokudome · UFC
1-2-0 Yui Chul Nam · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

1-3-0
UFC record
1-2-0
Lightweight
Division (benchmark)
Featherweight
39.4
AgeΔ 5.7 yrs
45.1
5'11"
HeightΔ 2"
5'9"
73"
Reach
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
142.5
Layoff (months)Δ 14.2 mo
128.3
LLLW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLW
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.

Yui Chul Nam carries real power — 1.00 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.29 Featherweight norm.
Yui Chul Nam owns the mat — in control 37% of cage time, vs a 17% Featherweight norm.
Kazuki Tokudome owns the mat — in control 41% of cage time, vs a 20% 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.

Kazuki Tokudome

Full career not yet synced for Kazuki Tokudome — 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 +0.2 wins over .500

Yui Chul Nam

Full career not yet synced for Yui Chul Nam — 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 -1.3 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

1192.26/min · norm 3.42
Sig. strikes landed
1593.53/min · norm 3.54
1913.63/min · norm 3.37
Sig. strikes absorbed
902.00/min · norm 3.47
41.2%norm 43.5%
Striking accuracy
51.3%norm 45.0%
53.1%norm 56.3%
Striking defense
48.3%norm 54.85%
10.29/15 · norm 0.25
Knockdowns
31.00/15 · norm 0.29

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

Kazuki Tokudome

Distance 74.0% (norm 82.8%) · Clinch 11.8% (norm 7.6%) · Ground 14.2% (norm 8.0%)

Yui Chul Nam

Distance 40.3% (norm 85.7%) · Clinch 37.4% (norm 6.1%) · Ground 22.3% (norm 6.5%)

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

Kazuki Tokudome

Head 85.5% (norm 78.2%) · Body 5.9% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 8.7% (norm 7.9%)

Yui Chul Nam

Head 76.5% (norm 77.4%) · Body 17.7% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 5.8% (norm 7.8%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Tokudome L/AAccLightweight med Nam L/AAccFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 76 / 214 35.5% 37.9% 43 / 125 34.4% 40.9%
In the clinch 20 / 34 58.8% 67.3% 81 / 116 69.8% 70.8%
On the ground 23 / 41 56.1% 69.1% 35 / 69 50.7% 69.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 84 / 247 34.0% 35.0% 107 / 237 45.1% 37.2%
To the body 14 / 17 too few to rate 69.1% 37 / 55 67.3% 68.2%
To the legs 21 / 25 84.0% 81.9% 15 / 18 too few to rate 80.7%

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 · Featherweight: 126 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 Tokudome L/AOpp accLightweight med vs Nam L/AOpp accFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 112 / 288 38.9% 38.9% 35 / 93 37.6% 39.2%
In the clinch 52 / 79 65.8% 68.6% 33 / 54 61.1% 70.3%
On the ground 27 / 40 67.5% 68.0% 22 / 27 81.5% 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 145 / 340 42.6% 35.1% 72 / 154 46.8% 35.9%
To the body 26 / 38 68.4% 68.1% 14 / 16 too few to rate 67.9%
To the legs 20 / 29 69.0% 81.5% 4 / 4 too few to rate 81.5%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

738.9% acc · 2.00/15 · norm 1.38
Takedowns landed
416.0% acc · 1.33/15 · norm 1.19
1578.9% def · norm 64.0%
Takedowns stopped
1257.1% def · norm 61.5%
21:4441.3% of cage time · norm 19.5%
Control time
16:3136.7% of cage time · norm 16.7%
10:443:03 per 15 · norm 2:46
Time under control
17:585:59 per 15 · norm 3:12
00.00/15 · norm 0.49
Submission attempts
10.33/15 · norm 0.46

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

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