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Kyler Phillips vs.
Marcelo Rojo

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

6-4-0 Kyler Phillips · UFC
0-3-0 Marcelo Rojo · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

6-4-0
UFC record
0-3-0
Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Featherweight
31.1
AgeΔ 7 yrs
38.1
5'8"
HeightΔ 0"
5'8"
72"
ReachΔ 1"
71"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3.6
Layoff (months)Δ 40.5 mo
44.1
LLLWW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLL
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.

Kyler Phillips hunts takedowns — 2.84 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.12 Bantamweight norm.
Marcelo Rojo absorbs 6.42 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.47 Featherweight norm — hittable.
Marcelo Rojo rarely shoots — 0.46 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.

Kyler Phillips

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 74
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 20
Tier 3 — regional circuit 31

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.27 · 9 tier-1/2 wins · 7 finish wins over 17 documented bouts

In the UFC: 3-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.5 wins over .500

Marcelo Rojo

Full career not yet synced for Marcelo Rojo — 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

6434.68/min · norm 3.52
Sig. strikes landed
1604.92/min · norm 3.54
5283.84/min · norm 3.58
Sig. strikes absorbed
2096.42/min · norm 3.47
42.9%norm 43.4%
Striking accuracy
39.6%norm 45.0%
59.0%norm 56.6%
Striking defense
55.1%norm 54.85%
20.22/15 · norm 0.30
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.29

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

Kyler Phillips

Distance 88.3% (norm 87.4%) · Clinch 3.6% (norm 5.7%) · Ground 8.1% (norm 6.5%)

Marcelo Rojo

Distance 92.3% (norm 85.7%) · Clinch 6.2% (norm 6.1%) · Ground 1.5% (norm 6.5%)

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

Kyler Phillips

Head 81.8% (norm 77.4%) · Body 11.3% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 6.9% (norm 8.4%)

Marcelo Rojo

Head 75.2% (norm 77.4%) · Body 10.9% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 13.9% (norm 7.8%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Phillips L/AAccBantamweight med Rojo L/AAccFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 519 / 1324 39.2% 39.0% 140 / 373 37.5% 40.9%
In the clinch 38 / 54 70.4% 68.7% 15 / 25 60.0% 70.8%
On the ground 86 / 121 71.1% 70.2% 5 / 6 too few to rate 69.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 434 / 1226 35.4% 34.9% 77 / 304 25.3% 37.2%
To the body 118 / 169 69.8% 66.8% 31 / 44 70.5% 68.2%
To the legs 91 / 104 87.5% 79.4% 52 / 56 92.9% 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 (Bantamweight: 117 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 Phillips L/AOpp accBantamweight med vs Rojo L/AOpp accFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 461 / 1187 38.8% 39.3% 151 / 381 39.6% 39.2%
In the clinch 47 / 66 71.2% 70.4% 24 / 29 82.8% 70.3%
On the ground 20 / 34 58.8% 72.4% 34 / 55 61.8% 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 307 / 975 31.5% 34.9% 140 / 380 36.8% 35.9%
To the body 146 / 223 65.5% 66.0% 37 / 52 71.2% 67.9%
To the legs 75 / 89 84.3% 79.1% 32 / 33 97.0% 81.5%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

2647.3% acc · 2.84/15 · norm 1.12
Takedowns landed
150.0% acc · 0.46/15 · norm 1.19
3075.0% def · norm 66.7%
Takedowns stopped
866.7% def · norm 61.5%
28:2120.6% of cage time · norm 17.4%
Control time
0:583.0% of cage time · norm 16.7%
13:451:29 per 15 · norm 2:24
Time under control
8:173:49 per 15 · norm 3:12
30.33/15 · norm 0.28
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.46

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

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