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Nick Ring vs.
Court McGee

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

3-3-0 Nick Ring · UFC
11-13-0 Court McGee · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

3-3-0
UFC record
11-13-0
Middleweight
Division (benchmark)
Welterweight
47
AgeΔ 6 yrs
41
6'0"
HeightΔ 1"
5'11"
74"
ReachΔ 1"
75"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
152
Layoff (months)Δ 138.2 mo
13.8
LLWLW
Last 5 (newest first)
LWLLL
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.

Court McGee outworks the Welterweight division — 4.50 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.17 norm.
Court McGee hunts takedowns — 1.78 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.27 Welterweight norm.
Nick Ring is wasteful with head shots — only 28% land, vs a 39% Middleweight 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.

Nick Ring

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

In the UFC: 1-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.0 wins over .500

Court McGee

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 1113
Tier 3 — regional circuit 111

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.79 · 11 tier-1/2 wins · 11 finish wins over 36 documented bouts

In the UFC: 4-10 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.0 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

3123.52/min · norm 3.25
Sig. strikes landed
13644.50/min · norm 3.17
3083.48/min · norm 3.20
Sig. strikes absorbed
11083.65/min · norm 3.06
42.7%norm 47.4%
Striking accuracy
36.9%norm 44.9%
62.8%norm 53.8%
Striking defense
61.0%norm 55.25%
00.00/15 · norm 0.32
Knockdowns
30.15/15 · norm 0.38

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

Nick Ring

Distance 89.1% (norm 79.4%) · Clinch 6.2% (norm 9.1%) · Ground 4.8% (norm 10.3%)

Court McGee

Distance 91.4% (norm 81.2%) · Clinch 4.2% (norm 9.4%) · Ground 4.4% (norm 8.1%)

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

Nick Ring

Head 68.4% (norm 78.0%) · Body 12.0% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 19.6% (norm 8.4%)

Court McGee

Head 72.2% (norm 78.2%) · Body 16.0% (norm 12.4%) · Legs 11.8% (norm 8.4%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Ring L/AAccMiddleweight med McGee L/AAccWelterweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 246 / 651 37.8% 40.5% 1158 / 3383 34.2% 38.6%
In the clinch 36 / 45 80.0% 70.3% 83 / 154 53.9% 67.8%
On the ground 30 / 35 85.7% 69.1% 123 / 163 75.5% 67.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 141 / 500 28.2% 38.9% 708 / 2670 26.5% 37.2%
To the body 62 / 88 70.5% 71.7% 311 / 592 52.5% 70.7%
To the legs 109 / 143 76.2% 83.3% 345 / 438 78.8% 82.9%

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 (Middleweight: 174 fighters · Welterweight: 182 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 Ring L/AOpp accMiddleweight med vs McGee L/AOpp accWelterweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 249 / 746 33.4% 39.5% 981 / 2625 37.4% 39.0%
In the clinch 47 / 64 73.4% 70.9% 101 / 171 59.1% 68.9%
On the ground 12 / 17 too few to rate 69.0% 26 / 42 61.9% 68.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 203 / 680 29.9% 37.9% 777 / 2363 32.9% 35.6%
To the body 53 / 79 67.1% 71.3% 212 / 333 63.7% 69.6%
To the legs 52 / 68 76.5% 82.1% 119 / 142 83.8% 82.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

836.4% acc · 1.36/15 · norm 1.42
Takedowns landed
3624.8% acc · 1.78/15 · norm 1.27
1152.4% def · norm 63.1%
Takedowns stopped
3470.8% def · norm 63.9%
15:2417.4% of cage time · norm 19.75%
Control time
71:5123.7% of cage time · norm 18.5%
14:342:28 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
15:210:45 per 15 · norm 3:15
20.34/15 · norm 0.47
Submission attempts
90.45/15 · norm 0.45

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

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