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Rose Namajunas vs.
Erin Blanchfield

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 Rose Namajunas · UFC
8-1-0 Erin Blanchfield · 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
8-1-0
Women's Strawweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Flyweight
34.1
AgeΔ 6.8 yrs
27.3
5'5"
HeightΔ 1"
5'4"
65"
ReachΔ 1"
66"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6.4
Layoff (months)Δ 2.3 mo
8.7
LWLWW
Last 5 (newest first)
WWLWW
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.

Erin Blanchfield is a submission threat — 0.86 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.32 Women's Flyweight norm.
Erin Blanchfield owns the mat — in control 38% of cage time, vs a 19% Women's Flyweight norm.
Rose Namajunas hunts takedowns — 1.47 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.10 Women's Strawweight 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.

Rose Namajunas

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 127
Tier 3 — regional circuit 21

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.14 · 12 tier-1/2 wins · 7 finish wins over 22 documented bouts

In the UFC: 11-6 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +4.3 wins over .500

Erin Blanchfield

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 81
Tier 3 — regional circuit 61

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.65 · 8 tier-1/2 wins · 7 finish wins over 16 documented bouts

In the UFC: 7-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +3.8 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

10403.50/min · norm 3.77
Sig. strikes landed
6435.24/min · norm 3.91
10043.38/min · norm 3.94
Sig. strikes absorbed
5214.25/min · norm 3.81
41.1%norm 44.5%
Striking accuracy
44.4%norm 44.9%
63.7%norm 54.4%
Striking defense
58.8%norm 55.95%
60.30/15 · norm 0.00
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.09

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

Rose Namajunas

Distance 90.5% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 4.2% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 5.3% (norm 5.0%)

Erin Blanchfield

Distance 86.1% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 4.7% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 9.2% (norm 4.9%)

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

Rose Namajunas

Head 83.2% (norm 76.4%) · Body 11.9% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 4.9% (norm 9.1%)

Erin Blanchfield

Head 84.3% (norm 78.1%) · Body 9.0% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 6.8% (norm 7.7%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Namajunas L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med Blanchfield L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 871 / 2290 38.0% 38.3% 496 / 1247 39.8% 39.9%
In the clinch 71 / 107 66.4% 72.6% 43 / 68 63.2% 73.3%
On the ground 98 / 133 73.7% 75.0% 104 / 133 78.2% 74.7%
BY TARGET
To the head 744 / 2105 35.3% 35.4% 454 / 1220 37.2% 34.9%
To the body 195 / 300 65.0% 69.3% 102 / 130 78.5% 69.5%
To the legs 101 / 125 80.8% 77.9% 87 / 98 88.8% 82.6%

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 Strawweight: 63 fighters · Women's Flyweight: 46 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 Namajunas L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med vs Blanchfield L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 836 / 2511 33.3% 39.7% 496 / 1208 41.1% 38.8%
In the clinch 115 / 175 65.7% 71.5% 25 / 56 44.6% 74.1%
On the ground 53 / 78 67.9% 74.4% 0 / 0 too few to rate 73.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 510 / 2078 24.5% 36.0% 365 / 1058 34.5% 35.3%
To the body 216 / 344 62.8% 68.4% 76 / 120 63.3% 69.0%
To the legs 278 / 342 81.3% 79.1% 80 / 86 93.0% 78.7%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

2948.3% acc · 1.47/15 · norm 1.10
Takedowns landed
1634.0% acc · 1.96/15 · norm 1.02
4162.1% def · norm 64.1%
Takedowns stopped
1878.3% def · norm 58.95%
58:3619.7% of cage time · norm 19.4%
Control time
47:0338.4% of cage time · norm 19.15%
29:461:30 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
2:350:18 per 15 · norm 3:03
70.35/15 · norm 0.29
Submission attempts
70.86/15 · norm 0.32

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

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