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Poliana Botelho vs.
Syuri Kondo

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

3-4-0 Poliana Botelho · UFC
1-3-0 Syuri Kondo · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

3-4-0
UFC record
1-3-0
Women's Flyweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Strawweight
37
AgeΔ 0 yrs
37
5'8"
HeightΔ 4"
5'4"
67"
ReachΔ 1"
66"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
50.1
Layoff (months)Δ 35.4 mo
85.5
LLLWL
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLW
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.

Poliana Botelho carries real power — 0.21 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.09 Women's Flyweight norm.
Syuri Kondo rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.10 Women's Strawweight norm.
Syuri Kondo absorbs 7.22 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.94 Women's Strawweight norm — hittable.
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.

Poliana Botelho

Full career not yet synced for Poliana Botelho — 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 +0.7 wins over .500

Syuri Kondo

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

In the UFC: 0-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.0 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

2042.90/min · norm 3.91
Sig. strikes landed
2465.40/min · norm 3.77
1972.80/min · norm 3.81
Sig. strikes absorbed
3297.22/min · norm 3.94
58.6%norm 44.9%
Striking accuracy
44.9%norm 44.5%
54.2%norm 55.95%
Striking defense
58.0%norm 54.4%
10.21/15 · norm 0.09
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.00

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

Poliana Botelho

Distance 69.0% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 24.4% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 6.6% (norm 4.9%)

Syuri Kondo

Distance 91.6% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 7.8% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 0.5% (norm 5.0%)

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

Poliana Botelho

Head 62.4% (norm 78.1%) · Body 25.6% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 12.1% (norm 7.7%)

Syuri Kondo

Head 83.8% (norm 76.4%) · Body 11.1% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 5.1% (norm 9.1%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Botelho L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med Kondo L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 112 / 240 46.7% 39.9% 214 / 502 42.6% 38.3%
In the clinch 70 / 85 82.4% 73.3% 29 / 43 67.4% 72.6%
On the ground 22 / 23 too few to rate 74.7% 3 / 3 too few to rate 75.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 104 / 217 47.9% 34.9% 177 / 459 38.6% 35.4%
To the body 63 / 89 70.8% 69.5% 44 / 61 72.1% 69.3%
To the legs 37 / 42 88.1% 82.6% 25 / 28 89.3% 77.9%

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 (Women's Flyweight: 46 fighters · Women's Strawweight: 63 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 Botelho L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med vs Kondo L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 107 / 311 34.4% 38.8% 254 / 682 37.2% 39.7%
In the clinch 24 / 28 85.7% 74.1% 12 / 23 too few to rate 71.5%
On the ground 66 / 91 72.5% 73.4% 63 / 79 79.7% 74.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 97 / 278 34.9% 35.3% 256 / 668 38.3% 36.0%
To the body 50 / 73 68.5% 69.0% 34 / 57 59.6% 68.4%
To the legs 50 / 79 63.3% 78.7% 39 / 59 66.1% 79.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

457.1% acc · 0.85/15 · norm 1.02
Takedowns landed
0— acc · 0.00/15 · norm 1.10
2076.9% def · norm 58.95%
Takedowns stopped
583.3% def · norm 64.1%
13:4719.6% of cage time · norm 19.15%
Control time
0:200.7% of cage time · norm 19.4%
30:446:33 per 15 · norm 3:03
Time under control
12:584:16 per 15 · norm 3:00
00.00/15 · norm 0.32
Submission attempts
10.33/15 · norm 0.29

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

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