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Leslie Smith vs.
Amanda Lemos

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

4-3-0 Leslie Smith · UFC
9-6-0 Amanda Lemos · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

4-3-0
UFC record
9-6-0
Women's Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Strawweight
44
AgeΔ 4.8 yrs
39.2
5'9"
HeightΔ 5"
5'4"
66"
ReachΔ 1"
65"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
108.7
Layoff (months)Δ 103.9 mo
4.8
WWLWL
Last 5 (newest first)
LLWLW
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.

Leslie Smith carries real power — 0.48 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.08 Women's Bantamweight norm.
Amanda Lemos is a submission threat — 0.74 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.29 Women's Strawweight norm.
Leslie Smith absorbs 8.41 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.51 Women's Bantamweight norm — hittable.
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.

Leslie Smith

Full career not yet synced for Leslie Smith — 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 -0.3 wins over .500

Amanda Lemos

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 96
Tier 3 — regional circuit 60

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.18 · 9 tier-1/2 wins · 11 finish wins over 22 documented bouts

In the UFC: 8-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.9 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

4777.56/min · norm 3.56
Sig. strikes landed
4452.75/min · norm 3.77
5318.41/min · norm 3.51
Sig. strikes absorbed
4873.01/min · norm 3.94
40.3%norm 46.65%
Striking accuracy
55.3%norm 44.5%
51.1%norm 52.45%
Striking defense
45.3%norm 54.4%
20.48/15 · norm 0.08
Knockdowns
60.56/15 · norm 0.00

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

Leslie Smith

Distance 84.1% (norm 80.3%) · Clinch 14.5% (norm 9.7%) · Ground 1.4% (norm 7.5%)

Amanda Lemos

Distance 77.2% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 9.0% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 13.8% (norm 5.0%)

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

Leslie Smith

Head 84.9% (norm 75.2%) · Body 9.5% (norm 14.3%) · Legs 5.7% (norm 8.8%)

Amanda Lemos

Head 76.0% (norm 76.4%) · Body 15.5% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 8.5% (norm 9.1%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Smith L/AAccWomen's Bantamweight med Lemos L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 354 / 995 35.6% 38.3% 308 / 621 49.6% 38.3%
In the clinch 116 / 171 67.8% 73.3% 58 / 72 80.6% 72.6%
On the ground 7 / 17 too few to rate 70.8% 79 / 111 71.2% 75.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 345 / 1004 34.4% 37.7% 289 / 611 47.3% 35.4%
To the body 73 / 112 65.2% 70.0% 94 / 125 75.2% 69.3%
To the legs 59 / 67 88.1% 80.9% 62 / 68 91.2% 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 Bantamweight: 40 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 Smith L/AOpp accWomen's Bantamweight med vs Lemos L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 391 / 905 43.2% 41.3% 254 / 595 42.7% 39.7%
In the clinch 125 / 160 78.1% 74.7% 123 / 155 79.4% 71.5%
On the ground 15 / 20 too few to rate 74.2% 110 / 141 78.0% 74.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 341 / 857 39.8% 38.1% 282 / 602 46.8% 36.0%
To the body 91 / 119 76.5% 73.2% 119 / 163 73.0% 68.4%
To the legs 99 / 109 90.8% 80.9% 86 / 126 68.3% 79.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

00.0% acc · 0.00/15 · norm 0.91
Takedowns landed
1164.7% acc · 1.02/15 · norm 1.10
1062.5% def · norm 62.5%
Takedowns stopped
2963.0% def · norm 64.1%
3:566.2% of cage time · norm 26.55%
Control time
27:5717.3% of cage time · norm 19.4%
9:022:08 per 15 · norm 3:19
Time under control
66:216:09 per 15 · norm 3:00
00.00/15 · norm 0.34
Submission attempts
80.74/15 · norm 0.29

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

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