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Miranda Maverick vs.
Rose Namajunas

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

8-4-0 Miranda Maverick · UFC
12-7-0 Rose Namajunas · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

8-4-0
UFC record
12-7-0
Women's Flyweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Strawweight
29
AgeΔ 5 yrs
34
5'3"
HeightΔ 2"
5'5"
65"
ReachΔ 0"
65"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
13.7
Layoff (months)Δ 7.3 mo
6.4
LWWWW
Last 5 (newest first)
LWLWW
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.

Miranda Maverick hunts takedowns — 2.16 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.02 Women's Flyweight norm.
Miranda Maverick owns the mat — in control 30% of cage time, vs a 19% Women's Flyweight norm.
Rose Namajunas hunts takedowns — 1.47 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.10 Women's Strawweight 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.

Miranda Maverick

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 84
Tier 3 — regional circuit 72

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.13 · 8 tier-1/2 wins · 8 finish wins over 21 documented bouts

In the UFC: 3-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.9 wins over .500

Rose Namajunas

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 127
Tier 3 — regional circuit 21

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.14 · 12 tier-1/2 wins · 7 finish wins over 22 documented bouts

In the UFC: 11-6 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +4.3 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

5143.22/min · norm 3.91
Sig. strikes landed
10403.50/min · norm 3.77
3582.25/min · norm 3.81
Sig. strikes absorbed
10043.38/min · norm 3.94
44.5%norm 44.9%
Striking accuracy
41.1%norm 44.5%
61.7%norm 55.95%
Striking defense
63.7%norm 54.4%
00.00/15 · norm 0.09
Knockdowns
60.30/15 · norm 0.00

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

Miranda Maverick

Distance 89.4% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 3.5% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 7.1% (norm 4.9%)

Rose Namajunas

Distance 90.5% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 4.2% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 5.3% (norm 5.0%)

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

Miranda Maverick

Head 74.1% (norm 78.1%) · Body 14.5% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 11.3% (norm 7.7%)

Rose Namajunas

Head 83.2% (norm 76.4%) · Body 11.9% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 4.9% (norm 9.1%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Maverick L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med Namajunas L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 416 / 1033 40.3% 39.9% 871 / 2290 38.0% 38.3%
In the clinch 31 / 40 77.5% 73.3% 71 / 107 66.4% 72.6%
On the ground 67 / 82 81.7% 74.7% 98 / 133 73.7% 75.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 282 / 856 32.9% 34.9% 744 / 2105 35.3% 35.4%
To the body 121 / 168 72.0% 69.5% 195 / 300 65.0% 69.3%
To the legs 111 / 131 84.7% 82.6% 101 / 125 80.8% 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 Flyweight: 46 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 Maverick L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med vs Namajunas L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 296 / 851 34.8% 38.8% 836 / 2511 33.3% 39.7%
In the clinch 35 / 46 76.1% 74.1% 115 / 175 65.7% 71.5%
On the ground 27 / 37 73.0% 73.4% 53 / 78 67.9% 74.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 260 / 787 33.0% 35.3% 510 / 2078 24.5% 36.0%
To the body 71 / 113 62.8% 69.0% 216 / 344 62.8% 68.4%
To the legs 27 / 34 79.4% 78.7% 278 / 342 81.3% 79.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

2340.4% acc · 2.16/15 · norm 1.02
Takedowns landed
2948.3% acc · 1.47/15 · norm 1.10
1445.2% def · norm 58.95%
Takedowns stopped
4162.1% def · norm 64.1%
48:1430.3% of cage time · norm 19.15%
Control time
58:3619.7% of cage time · norm 19.4%
36:523:28 per 15 · norm 3:03
Time under control
29:461:30 per 15 · norm 3:00
40.38/15 · norm 0.32
Submission attempts
70.35/15 · norm 0.29

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

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