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Raquel Pennington vs.
Jessica Andrade

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

13-6-0 Raquel Pennington · UFC
17-13-0 Jessica Andrade · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

13-6-0
UFC record
17-13-0
Women's Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Strawweight
37
AgeΔ 3 yrs
34
5'7"
HeightΔ 6"
5'1"
67"
ReachΔ 5"
62"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
22
Layoff (months)Δ 10.3 mo
11.7
LWWWW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLWW
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.

Jessica Andrade hunts takedowns — 2.10 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.10 Women's Strawweight norm.
Raquel Pennington is a submission threat — 0.62 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.34 Women's Bantamweight norm.
Jessica Andrade outworks the Women's Strawweight division — 6.37 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.77 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.

Raquel Pennington

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 136
Tier 3 — regional circuit 33

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.99 · 13 tier-1/2 wins · 5 finish wins over 25 documented bouts

In the UFC: 10-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.9 wins over .500

Jessica Andrade

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 1713
Tier 3 — regional circuit 92

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.94 · 17 tier-1/2 wins · 18 finish wins over 41 documented bouts

In the UFC: 13-11 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.9 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

11934.10/min · norm 3.56
Sig. strikes landed
18246.37/min · norm 3.77
9663.32/min · norm 3.51
Sig. strikes absorbed
15975.58/min · norm 3.94
49.2%norm 46.65%
Striking accuracy
48.7%norm 44.5%
61.1%norm 52.45%
Striking defense
54.2%norm 54.4%
10.05/15 · norm 0.08
Knockdowns
70.37/15 · norm 0.00

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

Raquel Pennington

Distance 76.8% (norm 80.3%) · Clinch 18.1% (norm 9.7%) · Ground 5.2% (norm 7.5%)

Jessica Andrade

Distance 79.9% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 13.3% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 6.8% (norm 5.0%)

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

Raquel Pennington

Head 75.5% (norm 75.2%) · Body 18.4% (norm 14.3%) · Legs 6.1% (norm 8.8%)

Jessica Andrade

Head 76.4% (norm 76.4%) · Body 15.2% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 8.4% (norm 9.1%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Pennington L/AAccWomen's Bantamweight med Andrade L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 734 / 1863 39.4% 38.3% 1318 / 2995 44.0% 38.3%
In the clinch 358 / 438 81.7% 73.3% 308 / 497 62.0% 72.6%
On the ground 101 / 125 80.8% 70.8% 198 / 255 77.6% 75.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 690 / 1831 37.7% 37.7% 1147 / 2863 40.1% 35.4%
To the body 371 / 447 83.0% 70.0% 406 / 570 71.2% 69.3%
To the legs 132 / 148 89.2% 80.9% 271 / 314 86.3% 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 Bantamweight: 40 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 Pennington L/AOpp accWomen's Bantamweight med vs Andrade L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 666 / 2067 32.2% 41.3% 1260 / 2987 42.2% 39.7%
In the clinch 282 / 392 71.9% 74.7% 241 / 355 67.9% 71.5%
On the ground 18 / 23 too few to rate 74.2% 96 / 142 67.6% 74.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 555 / 1857 29.9% 38.1% 1094 / 2853 38.3% 36.0%
To the body 271 / 433 62.6% 73.2% 287 / 401 71.6% 68.4%
To the legs 140 / 192 72.9% 80.9% 216 / 230 93.9% 79.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

1627.6% acc · 0.83/15 · norm 0.91
Takedowns landed
4054.1% acc · 2.10/15 · norm 1.10
4062.5% def · norm 62.5%
Takedowns stopped
6975.0% def · norm 64.1%
66:2122.8% of cage time · norm 26.55%
Control time
64:3422.6% of cage time · norm 19.4%
73:463:48 per 15 · norm 3:19
Time under control
27:521:27 per 15 · norm 3:00
120.62/15 · norm 0.34
Submission attempts
60.31/15 · norm 0.29

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

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