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Mike Swick vs.
Yushin Okami

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

10-5-0 Mike Swick · UFC
14-7-0 Yushin Okami · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

10-5-0
UFC record
14-7-0
Welterweight
Division (benchmark)
Middleweight
47
AgeΔ 2 yrs
45
6'1"
HeightΔ 1"
6'2"
77"
ReachΔ 2"
75"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
132.9
Layoff (months)Δ 40.8 mo
92.1
LLWLL
Last 5 (newest first)
LWLLW
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.

Yushin Okami owns the mat — in control 38% of cage time, vs a 20% Middleweight norm.
Yushin Okami hunts takedowns — 1.96 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.42 Middleweight norm.
Mike Swick is wasteful with head shots — only 24% land, vs a 37% Welterweight 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.

Mike Swick

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

In the UFC: 6-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.7 wins over .500

Yushin Okami

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

In the UFC: 10-6 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.7 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

2872.29/min · norm 3.17
Sig. strikes landed
5132.03/min · norm 3.25
2912.32/min · norm 3.06
Sig. strikes absorbed
5672.25/min · norm 3.20
35.8%norm 44.9%
Striking accuracy
38.5%norm 47.4%
55.2%norm 55.25%
Striking defense
61.0%norm 53.8%
40.48/15 · norm 0.38
Knockdowns
40.24/15 · norm 0.32

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

Mike Swick

Distance 70.7% (norm 81.2%) · Clinch 20.7% (norm 9.4%) · Ground 8.6% (norm 8.1%)

Yushin Okami

Distance 75.0% (norm 79.4%) · Clinch 5.9% (norm 9.1%) · Ground 19.1% (norm 10.3%)

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

Mike Swick

Head 75.8% (norm 78.2%) · Body 11.8% (norm 12.4%) · Legs 12.3% (norm 8.4%)

Yushin Okami

Head 90.6% (norm 78.0%) · Body 6.2% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 3.1% (norm 8.4%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Swick L/AAccWelterweight med Okami L/AAccMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 144 / 567 25.4% 38.6% 285 / 1000 28.5% 40.5%
In the clinch 109 / 166 65.7% 67.8% 69 / 79 87.3% 70.3%
On the ground 34 / 69 49.3% 67.2% 159 / 255 62.4% 69.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 144 / 608 23.7% 37.2% 405 / 1209 33.5% 38.9%
To the body 67 / 95 70.5% 70.7% 73 / 83 88.0% 71.7%
To the legs 76 / 99 76.8% 82.9% 35 / 42 83.3% 83.3%

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 (Welterweight: 182 fighters · Middleweight: 174 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 Swick L/AOpp accWelterweight med vs Okami L/AOpp accMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 116 / 426 27.2% 39.0% 361 / 1187 30.4% 39.5%
In the clinch 134 / 166 80.7% 68.9% 164 / 210 78.1% 70.9%
On the ground 41 / 58 70.7% 68.0% 42 / 57 73.7% 69.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 151 / 466 32.4% 35.6% 299 / 1092 27.4% 37.9%
To the body 64 / 92 69.6% 69.6% 81 / 137 59.1% 71.3%
To the legs 76 / 92 82.6% 82.1% 187 / 225 83.1% 82.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

847.1% acc · 0.96/15 · norm 1.27
Takedowns landed
3337.9% acc · 1.96/15 · norm 1.42
2457.1% def · norm 63.9%
Takedowns stopped
5584.6% def · norm 63.1%
27:3722.0% of cage time · norm 18.5%
Control time
95:5538.0% of cage time · norm 19.75%
35:514:17 per 15 · norm 3:15
Time under control
33:291:59 per 15 · norm 3:00
50.60/15 · norm 0.45
Submission attempts
90.54/15 · norm 0.47

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

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