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Serghei Spivac vs.
Vitor Petrino

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

9-6-0 Serghei Spivac · UFC
7-2-0 Vitor Petrino · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

9-6-0
UFC record
7-2-0
Heavyweight
Division (benchmark)
Light Heavyweight
31.5
AgeΔ 2.6 yrs
28.9
6'3"
HeightΔ 1"
6'2"
78"
ReachΔ 1"
77"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5.5
Layoff (months)Δ 0.7 mo
4.8
WLLWL
Last 5 (newest first)
WWWLL
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.

Serghei Spivac hunts takedowns — 3.82 per 15 minutes, vs a 0.95 Heavyweight norm.
Vitor Petrino hunts takedowns — 2.84 per 15 minutes, vs a 0.87 Light Heavyweight norm.
Serghei Spivac is a submission threat — 0.48 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.16 Heavyweight 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.

Serghei Spivac

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 96
Tier 3 — regional circuit 90

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.28 · 9 tier-1/2 wins · 15 finish wins over 24 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.3 wins over .500

Vitor Petrino

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 82
Tier 3 — regional circuit 60

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.7 · 8 tier-1/2 wins · 10 finish wins over 16 documented bouts

In the UFC: 2-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.3 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

4483.57/min · norm 3.36
Sig. strikes landed
2943.09/min · norm 3.41
5314.23/min · norm 3.19
Sig. strikes absorbed
2632.76/min · norm 3.35
47.8%norm 47.8%
Striking accuracy
48.8%norm 48.3%
52.2%norm 52.5%
Striking defense
50.9%norm 52.9%
00.00/15 · norm 0.28
Knockdowns
30.47/15 · norm 0.40

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

Serghei Spivac

Distance 75.6% (norm 79.5%) · Clinch 2.8% (norm 9.8%) · Ground 21.6% (norm 9.3%)

Vitor Petrino

Distance 87.1% (norm 80.5%) · Clinch 3.3% (norm 8.6%) · Ground 9.6% (norm 10.4%)

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

Serghei Spivac

Head 96.6% (norm 79.2%) · Body 2.1% (norm 11.5%) · Legs 1.3% (norm 7.6%)

Vitor Petrino

Head 80.4% (norm 79.2%) · Body 11.9% (norm 11.7%) · Legs 7.6% (norm 9.7%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Spivac L/AAccHeavyweight med Petrino L/AAccLight Heavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 275 / 709 38.8% 40.1% 240 / 525 45.7% 41.4%
In the clinch 17 / 26 65.4% 70.6% 12 / 20 too few to rate 70.9%
On the ground 156 / 203 76.8% 70.2% 42 / 58 72.4% 72.3%
BY TARGET
To the head 421 / 906 46.5% 38.9% 198 / 485 40.8% 38.9%
To the body 16 / 20 too few to rate 76.8% 58 / 72 80.6% 71.9%
To the legs 11 / 12 too few to rate 87.8% 38 / 46 82.6% 81.8%

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 (Heavyweight: 93 fighters · Light Heavyweight: 93 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 Spivac L/AOpp accHeavyweight med vs Petrino L/AOpp accLight Heavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 439 / 979 44.8% 40.7% 225 / 490 45.9% 40.4%
In the clinch 43 / 62 69.4% 70.6% 29 / 37 78.4% 68.7%
On the ground 49 / 71 69.0% 72.0% 9 / 9 too few to rate 70.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 348 / 889 39.1% 38.8% 137 / 382 35.9% 37.5%
To the body 113 / 151 74.8% 75.1% 60 / 80 75.0% 72.3%
To the legs 70 / 72 97.2% 84.4% 66 / 74 89.2% 83.0%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

3259.3% acc · 3.82/15 · norm 0.95
Takedowns landed
1846.2% acc · 2.84/15 · norm 0.87
763.6% def · norm 64.3%
Takedowns stopped
2180.8% def · norm 66.7%
41:1332.8% of cage time · norm 17.2%
Control time
30:5232.4% of cage time · norm 16.5%
15:231:50 per 15 · norm 2:28
Time under control
7:461:13 per 15 · norm 2:48
40.48/15 · norm 0.16
Submission attempts
50.79/15 · norm 0.27

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

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