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Maheshate vs.
Gabriel Benitez

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

2-4-0 Maheshate · UFC
7-8-0 Gabriel Benitez · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

2-4-0
UFC record
7-8-0
Lightweight
Division (benchmark)
Featherweight
26.7
AgeΔ 11.4 yrs
38.1
6'0"
HeightΔ 4"
5'8"
71"
ReachΔ 0"
71"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
11.4
Layoff (months)Δ 15.9 mo
27.3
LLWLL
Last 5 (newest first)
LLWLL
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.

Maheshate rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.38 Lightweight norm.
Maheshate absorbs 6.56 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.37 Lightweight norm — hittable.
Gabriel Benitez is a submission threat — 0.86 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.46 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.

Maheshate

Full career not yet synced for Maheshate — 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 -0.5 wins over .500

Gabriel Benitez

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 78
Tier 3 — regional circuit 164

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.73 · 7 tier-1/2 wins · 19 finish wins over 35 documented bouts

In the UFC: 2-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.9 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

2834.11/min · norm 3.42
Sig. strikes landed
7315.26/min · norm 3.54
4526.56/min · norm 3.37
Sig. strikes absorbed
6254.49/min · norm 3.47
31.8%norm 43.5%
Striking accuracy
41.7%norm 45.0%
51.2%norm 56.3%
Striking defense
63.9%norm 54.85%
20.44/15 · norm 0.25
Knockdowns
40.43/15 · norm 0.29

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

Maheshate

Distance 95.8% (norm 82.8%) · Clinch 4.0% (norm 7.6%) · Ground 0.1% (norm 8.0%)

Gabriel Benitez

Distance 93.4% (norm 85.7%) · Clinch 2.1% (norm 6.1%) · Ground 4.6% (norm 6.5%)

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

Maheshate

Head 81.9% (norm 78.2%) · Body 12.6% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 5.5% (norm 7.9%)

Gabriel Benitez

Head 77.4% (norm 77.4%) · Body 12.9% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 9.7% (norm 7.8%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Maheshate L/AAccLightweight med Benitez L/AAccFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 265 / 854 31.0% 37.9% 658 / 1638 40.2% 40.9%
In the clinch 17 / 36 47.2% 67.3% 19 / 36 52.8% 70.8%
On the ground 1 / 1 too few to rate 69.1% 54 / 80 67.5% 69.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 186 / 730 25.5% 35.0% 416 / 1358 30.6% 37.2%
To the body 57 / 112 50.9% 69.1% 165 / 226 73.0% 68.2%
To the legs 40 / 49 81.6% 81.9% 150 / 170 88.2% 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 Maheshate L/AOpp accLightweight med vs Benitez L/AOpp accFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 391 / 824 47.5% 38.9% 532 / 1591 33.4% 39.2%
In the clinch 33 / 53 62.3% 68.6% 42 / 68 61.8% 70.3%
On the ground 28 / 49 57.1% 68.0% 51 / 73 69.9% 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 282 / 713 39.6% 35.1% 422 / 1462 28.9% 35.9%
To the body 71 / 104 68.3% 68.1% 123 / 181 68.0% 67.9%
To the legs 99 / 109 90.8% 81.5% 80 / 89 89.9% 81.5%
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 1.38
Takedowns landed
250.0% acc · 0.22/15 · norm 1.19
847.1% def · norm 64.0%
Takedowns stopped
2955.8% def · norm 61.5%
0:160.4% of cage time · norm 19.5%
Control time
5:354.0% of cage time · norm 16.7%
12:172:40 per 15 · norm 2:46
Time under control
30:423:18 per 15 · norm 3:12
00.00/15 · norm 0.49
Submission attempts
80.86/15 · norm 0.46

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

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