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Petr Yan vs.
Teruto Ishihara

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

12-4-0 Petr Yan · UFC
3-5-1 Teruto Ishihara · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

12-4-0
UFC record
3-5-1
Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Featherweight
33
AgeΔ 2 yrs
35
5'7"
HeightΔ 0"
5'7"
67"
ReachΔ 2"
69"
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
8
Layoff (months)Δ 81.8 mo
89.8
WWWWL
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLWL
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.

Teruto Ishihara carries real power — 1.33 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.29 Featherweight norm.
Petr Yan carries real power — 0.53 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.30 Bantamweight norm.
Teruto Ishihara rarely shoots — 0.50 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.19 Featherweight 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.

Petr Yan

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 124
Tier 3 — regional circuit 81

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.41 · 12 tier-1/2 wins · 8 finish wins over 25 documented bouts

In the UFC: 10-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +5.4 wins over .500

Teruto Ishihara

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

In the UFC: 1-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.3 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

14565.16/min · norm 3.52
Sig. strikes landed
2953.26/min · norm 3.54
11974.24/min · norm 3.58
Sig. strikes absorbed
3293.63/min · norm 3.47
54.9%norm 43.4%
Striking accuracy
44.7%norm 45.0%
59.6%norm 56.6%
Striking defense
53.7%norm 54.85%
100.53/15 · norm 0.30
Knockdowns
81.33/15 · norm 0.29

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

Petr Yan

Distance 82.6% (norm 87.4%) · Clinch 8.5% (norm 5.7%) · Ground 8.9% (norm 6.5%)

Teruto Ishihara

Distance 84.8% (norm 85.7%) · Clinch 6.5% (norm 6.1%) · Ground 8.6% (norm 6.5%)

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

Petr Yan

Head 80.1% (norm 77.4%) · Body 12.7% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 7.2% (norm 8.4%)

Teruto Ishihara

Head 73.5% (norm 77.4%) · Body 13.8% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 12.7% (norm 7.8%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Yan L/AAccBantamweight med Ishihara L/AAccFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 1086 / 2190 49.6% 39.0% 235 / 560 42.0% 40.9%
In the clinch 176 / 225 78.2% 68.7% 24 / 43 55.8% 70.8%
On the ground 194 / 237 81.9% 70.2% 36 / 57 63.2% 69.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 1008 / 2124 47.5% 34.9% 167 / 485 34.4% 37.2%
To the body 276 / 336 82.1% 66.8% 52 / 91 57.1% 68.2%
To the legs 172 / 192 89.6% 79.4% 76 / 84 90.5% 80.7%

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 (Bantamweight: 117 fighters · Featherweight: 126 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 Yan L/AOpp accBantamweight med vs Ishihara L/AOpp accFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 1067 / 2773 38.5% 39.3% 252 / 600 42.0% 39.2%
In the clinch 99 / 148 66.9% 70.4% 54 / 74 73.0% 70.3%
On the ground 31 / 42 73.8% 72.4% 23 / 36 63.9% 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 764 / 2328 32.8% 34.9% 196 / 530 37.0% 35.9%
To the body 270 / 417 64.7% 66.0% 68 / 98 69.4% 67.9%
To the legs 163 / 218 74.8% 79.1% 65 / 82 79.3% 81.5%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

3249.2% acc · 1.70/15 · norm 1.12
Takedowns landed
316.7% acc · 0.50/15 · norm 1.19
14686.4% def · norm 66.7%
Takedowns stopped
830.8% def · norm 61.5%
42:1915.0% of cage time · norm 17.4%
Control time
8:319.4% of cage time · norm 16.7%
33:561:48 per 15 · norm 2:24
Time under control
22:543:47 per 15 · norm 3:12
20.11/15 · norm 0.28
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.46

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

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