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Song Yadong vs.
Bharat Kandare

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

12-4-1 Song Yadong · UFC
0-1-0 Bharat Kandare · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

12-4-1
UFC record
0-1-0
Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Featherweight
28.7
AgeΔ 10.4 yrs
39.1
5'8"
HeightΔ 1"
5'7"
67"
ReachΔ 5"
72"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2.2
Layoff (months)Δ 102.1 mo
104.3
WLWLW
Last 5 (newest first)
L
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.

Bharat Kandare rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.19 Featherweight norm.
Bharat Kandare is wasteful with strikes at range — only 10% land, vs a 41% Featherweight norm.
Song Yadong carries real power — 0.48 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.30 Bantamweight 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.

Song Yadong

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 125
Tier 3 — regional circuit 114

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.04 · 12 tier-1/2 wins · 13 finish wins over 34 documented bouts

In the UFC: 8-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +3.6 wins over .500

Bharat Kandare

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

In the UFC: 0-0 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.0 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

9584.34/min · norm 3.52
Sig. strikes landed
30.70/min · norm 3.54
8423.81/min · norm 3.58
Sig. strikes absorbed
81.88/min · norm 3.47
43.7%norm 43.4%
Striking accuracy
10.0%norm 45.0%
55.0%norm 56.6%
Striking defense
72.4%norm 54.85%
70.48/15 · norm 0.30
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.29

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

Song Yadong

Distance 91.5% (norm 87.4%) · Clinch 3.6% (norm 5.7%) · Ground 4.9% (norm 6.5%)

Bharat Kandare

Distance 100.0% (norm 85.7%) · Clinch 0.0% (norm 6.1%) · Ground 0.0% (norm 6.5%)

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

Song Yadong

Head 76.6% (norm 77.4%) · Body 12.4% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 11.0% (norm 8.4%)

Bharat Kandare

Head 73.3% (norm 77.4%) · Body 0.0% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 26.7% (norm 7.8%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Yadong L/AAccBantamweight med Kandare L/AAccFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 824 / 2007 41.1% 39.0% 3 / 30 10.0% 40.9%
In the clinch 57 / 79 72.2% 68.7% 0 / 0 too few to rate 70.8%
On the ground 77 / 108 71.3% 70.2% 0 / 0 too few to rate 69.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 587 / 1681 34.9% 34.9% 1 / 22 too few to rate 37.2%
To the body 182 / 272 66.9% 66.8% 0 / 0 too few to rate 68.2%
To the legs 189 / 241 78.4% 79.4% 2 / 8 too few to rate 80.7%

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 (Bantamweight: 117 fighters · Featherweight: 126 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 Yadong L/AOpp accBantamweight med vs Kandare L/AOpp accFeatherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 763 / 1771 43.1% 39.3% 7 / 27 25.9% 39.2%
In the clinch 38 / 52 73.1% 70.4% 0 / 0 too few to rate 70.3%
On the ground 41 / 50 82.0% 72.4% 1 / 2 too few to rate 69.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 485 / 1383 35.1% 34.9% 6 / 23 too few to rate 35.9%
To the body 172 / 263 65.4% 66.0% 1 / 3 too few to rate 67.9%
To the legs 185 / 227 81.5% 79.1% 1 / 3 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.

1241.4% acc · 0.81/15 · norm 1.12
Takedowns landed
00.0% acc · 0.00/15 · norm 1.19
4873.8% def · norm 66.7%
Takedowns stopped
0— def · norm 61.5%
29:2713.3% of cage time · norm 17.4%
Control time
0:000.0% of cage time · norm 16.7%
19:111:18 per 15 · norm 2:24
Time under control
0:080:28 per 15 · norm 3:12
30.20/15 · norm 0.28
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.46

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

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