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Modestas Bukauskas vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk

UFC 9-5-0 vs. 10-8-0 (1 NC)

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
9-5-0
UFC record
10-8-0 (1 NC)
Light Heavyweight
Division (benchmark)
Middleweight
32
AgeΔ 1 yrs
31
6'3"
HeightΔ 3"
6'0"
76"
ReachΔ 2"
74"
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
1.5
Layoff (months)Δ 2.3 mo
3.8
WWLWW
Last 5 (newest first)
LWWWL

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
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 3.23 norm.
Modestas Bukauskas rarely shoots — 0.21 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.87 Light Heavyweight norm.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Modestas Bukauskas

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 85
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 71
Tier 3 — regional circuit 51

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.19 · 15 tier-1/2 wins · 14 finish wins over 27 documented bouts

In the UFC: 2-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.4 wins over .500

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

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

4333.10/min · norm 3.48
Sig. strikes landed
6945.73/min · norm 3.23
5443.89/min · norm 3.37
Sig. strikes absorbed lower is better
5404.45/min · norm 3.20
43.3%norm 48.45%
Striking accuracy
52.8%norm 47.4%
49.6%norm 52.75%
Striking defense
60.0%norm 53.8%
20.21/15 · norm 0.40
Knockdowns
91.11/15 · norm 0.32

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

Modestas Bukauskas

Distance 89.1% (norm 80.5%) · Clinch 6.2% (norm 8.8%) · Ground 4.7% (norm 10.6%)

Michal Oleksiejczuk

Distance 85.6% (norm 79.5%) · Clinch 2.3% (norm 9.0%) · Ground 12.2% (norm 10.0%)

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

Modestas Bukauskas

Head 86.4% (norm 78.5%) · Body 8.8% (norm 11.8%) · Legs 4.8% (norm 9.7%)

Michal Oleksiejczuk

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

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Bukauskas L/AAccLight Heavyweight med Oleksiejczuk L/AAccMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 356 / 892 39.9% 41.5% 565 / 1125 50.2% 40.5%
In the clinch 43 / 62 69.4% 70.8% 25 / 30 83.3% 70.6%
On the ground 34 / 47 72.3% 72.9% 104 / 160 65.0% 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 319 / 865 36.9% 39.2% 462 / 1035 44.6% 38.8%
To the body 70 / 88 79.5% 72.0% 197 / 240 82.1% 71.6%
To the legs 44 / 48 91.7% 82.1% 35 / 40 87.5% 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 (Light Heavyweight: 94 fighters · Middleweight: 178 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 Bukauskas L/AOpp accLight Heavyweight med vs Oleksiejczuk L/AOpp accMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 453 / 964 47.0% 40.6% 451 / 1213 37.2% 39.5%
In the clinch 57 / 71 80.3% 68.8% 77 / 125 61.6% 70.4%
On the ground 34 / 45 75.6% 70.4% 12 / 13 too few to rate 69.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 229 / 682 33.6% 37.7% 342 / 1066 32.1% 37.9%
To the body 181 / 237 76.4% 72.9% 156 / 233 67.0% 71.3%
To the legs 134 / 161 83.2% 83.1% 42 / 52 80.8% 82.1%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
266.7% acc · 0.21/15 · norm 0.87
Takedowns landed
842.1% acc · 0.99/15 · norm 1.35
2877.8% def · norm 66.7%
Takedowns stopped
1852.9% def · norm 63.3%
15:5611.4% of cage time · norm 17.1%
Control time
11:309.5% of cage time · norm 19.4%
24:442:39 per 15 · norm 2:50
Time under control lower is better
12:571:36 per 15 · norm 3:00
10.11/15 · norm 0.28
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.45

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