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Lauren Mueller vs.
Wu Yanan

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 Lauren Mueller · UFC
1-5-0 Wu Yanan · 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
1-5-0
Women's Flyweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Bantamweight
34
AgeΔ 4 yrs
30
5'5"
HeightΔ 3"
5'8"
67"
ReachΔ 1"
66"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
81.8
Layoff (months)Δ 34.3 mo
47.5
LLLW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLLW
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.

Wu Yanan absorbs 4.95 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.51 Women's Bantamweight norm — hittable.
Wu Yanan rarely shoots — 0.62 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.91 Women's Bantamweight 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.

Lauren Mueller

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

In the UFC: 1-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.5 wins over .500

Wu Yanan

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

In the UFC: 1-0 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record -0.5 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

1763.59/min · norm 3.91
Sig. strikes landed
3094.23/min · norm 3.56
2074.22/min · norm 3.81
Sig. strikes absorbed
3624.95/min · norm 3.51
38.1%norm 44.9%
Striking accuracy
41.4%norm 46.65%
57.4%norm 55.95%
Striking defense
49.9%norm 52.45%
00.00/15 · norm 0.09
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.08

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

Lauren Mueller

Distance 94.4% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 4.1% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 1.5% (norm 4.9%)

Wu Yanan

Distance 88.6% (norm 80.3%) · Clinch 9.4% (norm 9.7%) · Ground 2.0% (norm 7.5%)

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

Lauren Mueller

Head 76.6% (norm 78.1%) · Body 16.7% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 6.7% (norm 7.7%)

Wu Yanan

Head 70.8% (norm 75.2%) · Body 17.0% (norm 14.3%) · Legs 12.2% (norm 8.8%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Mueller L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med Yanan L/AAccWomen's Bantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 160 / 436 36.7% 39.9% 246 / 661 37.2% 38.3%
In the clinch 14 / 19 too few to rate 73.3% 55 / 70 78.6% 73.3%
On the ground 2 / 7 too few to rate 74.7% 8 / 15 too few to rate 70.8%
BY TARGET
To the head 102 / 354 28.8% 34.9% 158 / 528 29.9% 37.7%
To the body 46 / 77 59.7% 69.5% 89 / 127 70.1% 70.0%
To the legs 28 / 31 90.3% 82.6% 62 / 91 68.1% 80.9%

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 Bantamweight: 40 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 Mueller L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med vs Yanan L/AOpp accWomen's Bantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 180 / 451 39.9% 38.8% 265 / 595 44.5% 41.3%
In the clinch 21 / 29 72.4% 74.1% 52 / 65 80.0% 74.7%
On the ground 6 / 6 too few to rate 73.4% 45 / 63 71.4% 74.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 120 / 367 32.7% 35.3% 240 / 539 44.5% 38.1%
To the body 48 / 73 65.8% 69.0% 71 / 108 65.7% 73.2%
To the legs 39 / 46 84.8% 78.7% 51 / 76 67.1% 80.9%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

375.0% acc · 0.92/15 · norm 1.02
Takedowns landed
330.0% acc · 0.62/15 · norm 0.91
555.6% def · norm 58.95%
Takedowns stopped
1263.2% def · norm 62.5%
6:3313.4% of cage time · norm 19.15%
Control time
11:4816.1% of cage time · norm 26.55%
10:403:15 per 15 · norm 3:03
Time under control
16:113:19 per 15 · norm 3:19
00.00/15 · norm 0.32
Submission attempts
10.21/15 · norm 0.34

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

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