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Liz Carmouche vs.
Katlyn Cerminara

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

5-5-0 Liz Carmouche · UFC
11-6-0 Katlyn Cerminara · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

5-5-0
UFC record
11-6-0
Women's Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Flyweight
42.5
AgeΔ 4.9 yrs
37.6
5'6"
HeightΔ 3"
5'9"
66"
ReachΔ 2"
68"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
83.9
Layoff (months)Δ 55 mo
28.9
LWWLW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLWWW
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.

Liz Carmouche hunts takedowns — 2.61 per 15 minutes, vs a 0.91 Women's Bantamweight norm.
Katlyn Cerminara rarely shoots — 0.31 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.02 Women's Flyweight norm.
Liz Carmouche defends head shots well — opponents land just 21%, vs a 38% 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.

Liz Carmouche

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

In the UFC: 1-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.6 wins over .500

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

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

3142.18/min · norm 3.56
Sig. strikes landed
11044.58/min · norm 3.91
3022.10/min · norm 3.51
Sig. strikes absorbed
10804.48/min · norm 3.81
53.0%norm 46.65%
Striking accuracy
34.9%norm 44.9%
64.9%norm 52.45%
Striking defense
62.3%norm 55.95%
00.00/15 · norm 0.08
Knockdowns
10.06/15 · norm 0.09

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

Liz Carmouche

Distance 70.4% (norm 80.3%) · Clinch 8.8% (norm 9.7%) · Ground 20.8% (norm 7.5%)

Katlyn Cerminara

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

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

Liz Carmouche

Head 65.9% (norm 75.2%) · Body 13.0% (norm 14.3%) · Legs 21.1% (norm 8.8%)

Katlyn Cerminara

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

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Carmouche L/AAccWomen's Bantamweight med Cerminara L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 177 / 417 42.4% 38.3% 960 / 2967 32.4% 39.9%
In the clinch 46 / 52 88.5% 73.3% 86 / 123 69.9% 73.3%
On the ground 91 / 123 74.0% 70.8% 58 / 69 84.1% 74.7%
BY TARGET
To the head 164 / 390 42.1% 37.7% 677 / 2520 26.9% 34.9%
To the body 57 / 77 74.0% 70.0% 269 / 437 61.6% 69.5%
To the legs 93 / 125 74.4% 80.9% 158 / 202 78.2% 82.6%

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 Flyweight: 46 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 Carmouche L/AOpp accWomen's Bantamweight med vs Cerminara L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 171 / 678 25.2% 41.3% 942 / 2687 35.1% 38.8%
In the clinch 75 / 111 67.6% 74.7% 98 / 129 76.0% 74.1%
On the ground 56 / 72 77.8% 74.2% 40 / 47 85.1% 73.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 126 / 606 20.8% 38.1% 563 / 2131 26.4% 35.3%
To the body 48 / 90 53.3% 73.2% 186 / 325 57.2% 69.0%
To the legs 128 / 165 77.6% 80.9% 331 / 407 81.3% 78.7%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

2561.0% acc · 2.61/15 · norm 0.91
Takedowns landed
515.6% acc · 0.31/15 · norm 1.02
1666.7% def · norm 62.5%
Takedowns stopped
2650.0% def · norm 58.95%
42:4129.7% of cage time · norm 26.55%
Control time
19:007.9% of cage time · norm 19.15%
38:133:59 per 15 · norm 3:19
Time under control
38:452:24 per 15 · norm 3:03
40.42/15 · norm 0.34
Submission attempts
50.31/15 · norm 0.32

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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