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Rick Story vs.
Quinn Mulhern

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

12-7-0 Rick Story · UFC
0-2-0 Quinn Mulhern · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

12-7-0
UFC record
0-2-0
Welterweight
Division (benchmark)
Lightweight
41.9
AgeΔ 0 yrs
41.9
5'9"
HeightΔ 6"
6'3"
71"
Reach
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
119.5
Layoff (months)Δ 31.5 mo
151
LWWWL
Last 5 (newest first)
LL
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.

Quinn Mulhern rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.38 Lightweight norm.
Rick Story hunts takedowns — 2.53 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.27 Welterweight norm.
Rick Story is a submission threat — 0.89 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.45 Welterweight 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.

Rick Story

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

In the UFC: 8-7 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.8 wins over .500

Quinn Mulhern

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

In the UFC: 0-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.5 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

9013.80/min · norm 3.17
Sig. strikes landed
251.38/min · norm 3.42
5152.17/min · norm 3.06
Sig. strikes absorbed
432.38/min · norm 3.37
41.8%norm 44.9%
Striking accuracy
22.1%norm 43.5%
62.5%norm 55.25%
Striking defense
55.7%norm 56.3%
60.38/15 · norm 0.38
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.25

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

Rick Story

Distance 74.4% (norm 81.2%) · Clinch 14.5% (norm 9.4%) · Ground 11.1% (norm 8.1%)

Quinn Mulhern

Distance 96.5% (norm 82.8%) · Clinch 2.7% (norm 7.6%) · Ground 0.9% (norm 8.0%)

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

Rick Story

Head 73.5% (norm 78.2%) · Body 20.0% (norm 12.4%) · Legs 6.5% (norm 8.4%)

Quinn Mulhern

Head 77.0% (norm 78.2%) · Body 17.7% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 5.3% (norm 7.9%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Story L/AAccWelterweight med Mulhern L/AAccLightweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 548 / 1606 34.1% 38.6% 24 / 109 22.0% 37.9%
In the clinch 201 / 312 64.4% 67.8% 1 / 3 too few to rate 67.3%
On the ground 152 / 240 63.3% 67.2% 0 / 1 too few to rate 69.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 465 / 1586 29.3% 37.2% 19 / 87 21.8% 35.0%
To the body 312 / 432 72.2% 70.7% 4 / 20 too few to rate 69.1%
To the legs 124 / 140 88.6% 82.9% 2 / 6 too few to rate 81.9%

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 (Welterweight: 182 fighters · Lightweight: 201 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 Story L/AOpp accWelterweight med vs Mulhern L/AOpp accLightweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 395 / 1173 33.7% 39.0% 32 / 78 41.0% 38.9%
In the clinch 94 / 165 57.0% 68.9% 4 / 8 too few to rate 68.6%
On the ground 26 / 36 72.2% 68.0% 7 / 11 too few to rate 68.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 336 / 1118 30.1% 35.6% 26 / 73 35.6% 35.1%
To the body 108 / 168 64.3% 69.6% 12 / 16 too few to rate 68.1%
To the legs 71 / 88 80.7% 82.1% 5 / 8 too few to rate 81.5%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

4048.2% acc · 2.53/15 · norm 1.27
Takedowns landed
00.0% acc · 0.00/15 · norm 1.38
4863.2% def · norm 63.9%
Takedowns stopped
120.0% def · norm 64.0%
74:5431.6% of cage time · norm 18.5%
Control time
0:010.1% of cage time · norm 19.5%
39:212:29 per 15 · norm 3:15
Time under control
8:297:02 per 15 · norm 2:46
140.89/15 · norm 0.45
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.49

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

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