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Punahele Soriano vs. Daniil Donchenko

UFC 7-5-0 vs. 4-0-0

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
7-5-0
UFC record
4-0-0
Middleweight
Division (benchmark)
Welterweight
33
AgeΔ 8 yrs
25
5'11"
HeightΔ 0"
5'11"
72"
ReachΔ 1"
71"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
1.5
Layoff (months)Δ 0 mo
1.5
LWWWW
Last 5 (newest first)
WWWW

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
Daniil Donchenko carries real power — 1.83 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.38 Welterweight norm.
Punahele Soriano carries real power — 0.74 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.32 Middleweight norm.
Daniil Donchenko outworks the Welterweight division — 7.14 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.17 norm.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Punahele Soriano

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 94
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 10
Tier 3 — regional circuit 30

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.53 · 10 tier-1/2 wins · 9 finish wins over 17 documented bouts

In the UFC: 3-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.5 wins over .500

Daniil Donchenko

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

In the UFC: 2-0 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.8 wins over .500

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

5054.15/min · norm 3.23
Sig. strikes landed
2937.14/min · norm 3.17
4493.69/min · norm 3.20
Sig. strikes absorbed lower is better
882.14/min · norm 3.08
52.7%norm 47.4%
Striking accuracy
61.8%norm 44.75%
46.2%norm 53.8%
Striking defense
73.3%norm 55.25%
60.74/15 · norm 0.32
Knockdowns
51.83/15 · norm 0.38

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

Punahele Soriano

Distance 64.3% (norm 79.5%) · Clinch 6.2% (norm 9.0%) · Ground 29.5% (norm 10.0%)

Daniil Donchenko

Distance 81.6% (norm 80.7%) · Clinch 9.7% (norm 9.6%) · Ground 8.6% (norm 8.1%)

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

Punahele Soriano

Head 85.1% (norm 78.0%) · Body 13.3% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 1.6% (norm 8.4%)

Daniil Donchenko

Head 61.6% (norm 78.3%) · Body 20.7% (norm 12.4%) · Legs 17.7% (norm 8.0%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Soriano L/AAccMiddleweight med Donchenko L/AAccWelterweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 231 / 617 37.4% 40.5% 230 / 387 59.4% 38.5%
In the clinch 46 / 59 78.0% 70.6% 34 / 46 73.9% 67.8%
On the ground 228 / 283 80.6% 69.4% 29 / 41 70.7% 67.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 400 / 816 49.0% 38.8% 136 / 292 46.6% 36.4%
To the body 94 / 128 73.4% 71.6% 76 / 98 77.6% 70.7%
To the legs 11 / 15 too few to rate 83.3% 81 / 84 96.4% 83.0%

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: 178 fighters · Welterweight: 180 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 Soriano L/AOpp accMiddleweight med vs Donchenko L/AOpp accWelterweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 376 / 743 50.6% 39.5% 74 / 308 24.0% 39.1%
In the clinch 57 / 75 76.0% 70.4% 14 / 22 too few to rate 68.9%
On the ground 16 / 16 too few to rate 69.0% 0 / 0 too few to rate 68.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 236 / 584 40.4% 37.9% 71 / 286 24.8% 35.6%
To the body 147 / 180 81.7% 71.3% 15 / 42 35.7% 69.6%
To the legs 66 / 70 94.3% 82.1% 2 / 2 too few to rate 82.2%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
1744.7% acc · 2.10/15 · norm 1.35
Takedowns landed
125.0% acc · 0.37/15 · norm 1.31
2150.0% def · norm 63.3%
Takedowns stopped
1066.7% def · norm 63.9%
36:0929.7% of cage time · norm 19.4%
Control time
4:3111.0% of cage time · norm 18.5%
19:132:22 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control lower is better
4:511:46 per 15 · norm 3:15
20.25/15 · norm 0.45
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.44

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