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Niko Price vs. Abdul Razak Alhassan

UFC 9-11-0 (2 NC) vs. 6-7-0 (1 NC)

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
9-11-0 (2 NC)
UFC record
6-7-0 (1 NC)
Welterweight
Division (benchmark)
Middleweight
37
AgeΔ 4 yrs
41
6'0"
HeightΔ 2"
5'10"
76"
ReachΔ 3"
73"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
0.3
Layoff (months)Δ 21 mo
21.3
WLLLL
Last 5 (newest first)
LNCLWL

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
Abdul Razak Alhassan carries real power — 1.53 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.32 Middleweight norm.
Niko Price absorbs 5.51 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.08 Welterweight norm — hittable.
Niko Price outworks the Welterweight division — 5.29 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.17 norm.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Niko Price

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 811
Tier 3 — regional circuit 80

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.68 · 8 tier-1/2 wins · 13 finish wins over 29 documented bouts

In the UFC: 7-10 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.9 wins over .500

Abdul Razak Alhassan

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 87
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 10
Tier 3 — regional circuit 30

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.16 · 9 tier-1/2 wins · 12 finish wins over 20 documented bouts

In the UFC: 1-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.2 wins over .500

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

9115.29/min · norm 3.17
Sig. strikes landed
3153.58/min · norm 3.23
9495.51/min · norm 3.08
Sig. strikes absorbed lower is better
3534.01/min · norm 3.20
44.0%norm 44.75%
Striking accuracy
49.8%norm 47.4%
48.4%norm 55.25%
Striking defense
54.9%norm 53.8%
50.44/15 · norm 0.38
Knockdowns
91.53/15 · norm 0.32

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

Niko Price

Distance 83.5% (norm 80.7%) · Clinch 7.7% (norm 9.6%) · Ground 8.8% (norm 8.1%)

Abdul Razak Alhassan

Distance 77.1% (norm 79.5%) · Clinch 11.7% (norm 9.0%) · Ground 11.2% (norm 10.0%)

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

Niko Price

Head 77.3% (norm 78.3%) · Body 11.4% (norm 12.4%) · Legs 11.3% (norm 8.0%)

Abdul Razak Alhassan

Head 84.3% (norm 78.0%) · Body 7.3% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 8.4% (norm 8.4%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Price L/AAccWelterweight med Alhassan L/AAccMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 682 / 1728 39.5% 38.5% 216 / 487 44.4% 40.5%
In the clinch 94 / 159 59.1% 67.8% 52 / 74 70.3% 70.6%
On the ground 135 / 182 74.2% 67.0% 47 / 71 66.2% 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 572 / 1600 35.8% 36.4% 247 / 533 46.3% 38.8%
To the body 145 / 236 61.4% 70.7% 36 / 46 78.3% 71.6%
To the legs 194 / 233 83.3% 83.0% 32 / 53 60.4% 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: 180 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 Price L/AOpp accWelterweight med vs Alhassan L/AOpp accMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 748 / 1537 48.7% 39.1% 267 / 661 40.4% 39.5%
In the clinch 81 / 108 75.0% 68.9% 55 / 78 70.5% 70.4%
On the ground 120 / 193 62.2% 68.0% 31 / 44 70.5% 69.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 649 / 1481 43.8% 35.6% 206 / 601 34.3% 37.9%
To the body 163 / 208 78.4% 69.6% 92 / 124 74.2% 71.3%
To the legs 137 / 149 91.9% 82.2% 55 / 58 94.8% 82.1%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
1230.0% acc · 1.04/15 · norm 1.31
Takedowns landed
533.3% acc · 0.85/15 · norm 1.35
2352.3% def · norm 63.9%
Takedowns stopped
2850.9% def · norm 63.3%
26:5615.6% of cage time · norm 18.5%
Control time
12:5114.6% of cage time · norm 19.4%
36:083:08 per 15 · norm 3:15
Time under control lower is better
27:024:36 per 15 · norm 3:00
70.61/15 · norm 0.44
Submission attempts
10.17/15 · norm 0.45

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