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Michal Oleksiejczuk vs.
Dustin Jacoby

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

10-8-0 (1 NC) Michal Oleksiejczuk · UFC
10-7-1 Dustin Jacoby · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

10-8-0 (1 NC)
UFC record
10-7-1
Middleweight
Division (benchmark)
Light Heavyweight
31.5
AgeΔ 6.8 yrs
38.3
6'0"
HeightΔ 3"
6'3"
74"
ReachΔ 2"
76"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
1.3
Layoff (months)Δ 0.9 mo
0.4
LWWWL
Last 5 (newest first)
LWWWL
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.

Michal Oleksiejczuk carries real power — 1.11 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.32 Middleweight norm.
Michal Oleksiejczuk outworks the Middleweight division — 5.73 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.25 norm.
Dustin Jacoby rarely shoots — 0.26 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.87 Light Heavyweight 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.

Michal Oleksiejczuk

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 108
Tier 3 — regional circuit 112

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.9 · 10 tier-1/2 wins · 16 finish wins over 32 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-8 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.1 wins over .500

Dustin Jacoby

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 119
Tier 3 — regional circuit 111

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.02 · 11 tier-1/2 wins · 16 finish wins over 33 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.1 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

6945.73/min · norm 3.25
Sig. strikes landed
9355.33/min · norm 3.41
5404.45/min · norm 3.20
Sig. strikes absorbed
7494.27/min · norm 3.35
52.8%norm 47.4%
Striking accuracy
45.8%norm 48.3%
60.0%norm 53.8%
Striking defense
57.8%norm 52.9%
91.11/15 · norm 0.32
Knockdowns
70.60/15 · norm 0.40

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

Michal Oleksiejczuk

Distance 85.6% (norm 79.4%) · Clinch 2.3% (norm 9.1%) · Ground 12.2% (norm 10.3%)

Dustin Jacoby

Distance 93.0% (norm 80.5%) · Clinch 5.0% (norm 8.6%) · Ground 2.1% (norm 10.4%)

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

Michal Oleksiejczuk

Head 78.7% (norm 78.0%) · Body 18.3% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 3.0% (norm 8.4%)

Dustin Jacoby

Head 79.2% (norm 79.2%) · Body 9.4% (norm 11.7%) · Legs 11.4% (norm 9.7%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Oleksiejczuk L/AAccMiddleweight med Jacoby L/AAccLight Heavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 565 / 1125 50.2% 40.5% 840 / 1899 44.2% 41.4%
In the clinch 25 / 30 83.3% 70.3% 75 / 102 73.5% 70.9%
On the ground 104 / 160 65.0% 69.1% 20 / 42 47.6% 72.3%
BY TARGET
To the head 462 / 1035 44.6% 38.9% 617 / 1618 38.1% 38.9%
To the body 197 / 240 82.1% 71.7% 129 / 192 67.2% 71.9%
To the legs 35 / 40 87.5% 83.3% 189 / 233 81.1% 81.8%

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 (Middleweight: 174 fighters · Light Heavyweight: 93 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 Oleksiejczuk L/AOpp accMiddleweight med vs Jacoby L/AOpp accLight Heavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 451 / 1213 37.2% 39.5% 656 / 1630 40.2% 40.4%
In the clinch 77 / 125 61.6% 70.9% 52 / 83 62.7% 68.7%
On the ground 12 / 13 too few to rate 69.0% 41 / 61 67.2% 70.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 342 / 1066 32.1% 37.9% 515 / 1470 35.0% 37.5%
To the body 156 / 233 67.0% 71.3% 98 / 147 66.7% 72.3%
To the legs 42 / 52 80.8% 82.1% 136 / 157 86.6% 83.0%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

842.1% acc · 0.99/15 · norm 1.42
Takedowns landed
320.0% acc · 0.26/15 · norm 0.87
1852.9% def · norm 63.1%
Takedowns stopped
2757.4% def · norm 66.7%
11:309.5% of cage time · norm 19.75%
Control time
13:197.6% of cage time · norm 16.5%
12:571:36 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
18:321:35 per 15 · norm 2:48
00.00/15 · norm 0.47
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.27

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

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