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Niko Price vs.
Abdul Razak Alhassan

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

8-11-0 (2 NC) Niko Price · UFC
6-7-0 (1 NC) Abdul Razak Alhassan · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

8-11-0 (2 NC)
UFC record
6-7-0 (1 NC)
Welterweight
Division (benchmark)
Middleweight
36
AgeΔ 4 yrs
40
6'0"
HeightΔ 2"
5'10"
76"
ReachΔ 3"
73"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4.3
Layoff (months)Δ 14.5 mo
18.8
LLLLW
Last 5 (newest first)
LNCLWL
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.

Abdul Razak Alhassan carries real power — 1.53 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.32 Middleweight norm.
Niko Price absorbs 5.57 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.06 Welterweight norm — hittable.
Niko Price outworks the Welterweight division — 5.11 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.17 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.

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 +3.0 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

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

8705.11/min · norm 3.17
Sig. strikes landed
3153.58/min · norm 3.25
9495.57/min · norm 3.06
Sig. strikes absorbed
3534.01/min · norm 3.20
43.3%norm 44.9%
Striking accuracy
49.8%norm 47.4%
48.3%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 85.7% (norm 81.2%) · Clinch 7.9% (norm 9.4%) · Ground 6.4% (norm 8.1%)

Abdul Razak Alhassan

Distance 77.1% (norm 79.4%) · Clinch 11.7% (norm 9.1%) · Ground 11.2% (norm 10.3%)

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

Niko Price

Head 76.8% (norm 78.2%) · Body 11.6% (norm 12.4%) · Legs 11.6% (norm 8.4%)

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 678 / 1722 39.4% 38.6% 216 / 487 44.4% 40.5%
In the clinch 94 / 159 59.1% 67.8% 52 / 74 70.3% 70.3%
On the ground 98 / 129 76.0% 67.2% 47 / 71 66.2% 69.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 533 / 1543 34.5% 37.2% 247 / 533 46.3% 38.9%
To the body 143 / 234 61.1% 70.7% 36 / 46 78.3% 71.7%
To the legs 194 / 233 83.3% 82.9% 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: 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 Price L/AOpp accWelterweight med vs Alhassan L/AOpp accMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 748 / 1536 48.7% 39.0% 267 / 661 40.4% 39.5%
In the clinch 81 / 108 75.0% 68.9% 55 / 78 70.5% 70.9%
On the ground 120 / 193 62.2% 68.0% 31 / 44 70.5% 69.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 649 / 1480 43.9% 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% 82.1% 55 / 58 94.8% 82.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

1230.0% acc · 1.06/15 · norm 1.27
Takedowns landed
533.3% acc · 0.85/15 · norm 1.42
2150.0% def · norm 63.9%
Takedowns stopped
2850.9% def · norm 63.1%
25:1114.8% of cage time · norm 18.5%
Control time
12:5114.6% of cage time · norm 19.75%
36:083:10 per 15 · norm 3:15
Time under control
27:024:36 per 15 · norm 3:00
70.62/15 · norm 0.45
Submission attempts
10.17/15 · norm 0.47

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

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