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Tabatha Ricci vs.
Manon Fiorot

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

7-5-0 Tabatha Ricci · UFC
8-1-0 Manon Fiorot · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

7-5-0
UFC record
8-1-0
Women's Strawweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Flyweight
31
AgeΔ 5 yrs
36
5'1"
HeightΔ 6"
5'7"
61"
ReachΔ 4"
65"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
0.6
Layoff (months)Δ 9 mo
9.6
LLWLW
Last 5 (newest first)
WLWWW
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.

Tabatha Ricci hunts takedowns — 2.37 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.10 Women's Strawweight norm.
Manon Fiorot outworks the Women's Flyweight division — 5.66 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.91 norm.
Manon Fiorot defends head shots well — opponents land just 23%, vs a 35% Women's Flyweight 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.

Tabatha Ricci

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 75
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 30
Tier 3 — regional circuit 20

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.24 · 10 tier-1/2 wins · 5 finish wins over 17 documented bouts

In the UFC: 3-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.8 wins over .500

Manon Fiorot

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 81
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 01
Tier 3 — regional circuit 50

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.67 · 8 tier-1/2 wins · 7 finish wins over 15 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +3.9 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

5973.77/min · norm 3.77
Sig. strikes landed
7265.66/min · norm 3.91
7584.79/min · norm 3.94
Sig. strikes absorbed
4593.58/min · norm 3.81
36.5%norm 44.5%
Striking accuracy
42.0%norm 44.9%
58.1%norm 54.4%
Striking defense
66.9%norm 55.95%
00.00/15 · norm 0.00
Knockdowns
10.12/15 · norm 0.09

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

Tabatha Ricci

Distance 91.2% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 3.5% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 5.3% (norm 5.0%)

Manon Fiorot

Distance 91.0% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 6.5% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 2.5% (norm 4.9%)

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

Tabatha Ricci

Head 81.4% (norm 76.4%) · Body 8.3% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 10.3% (norm 9.1%)

Manon Fiorot

Head 82.0% (norm 78.1%) · Body 12.3% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 5.7% (norm 7.7%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Ricci L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med Fiorot L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 480 / 1492 32.2% 38.3% 622 / 1571 39.6% 39.9%
In the clinch 41 / 57 71.9% 72.6% 73 / 112 65.2% 73.3%
On the ground 76 / 87 87.4% 75.0% 31 / 44 70.5% 74.7%
BY TARGET
To the head 395 / 1332 29.7% 35.4% 471 / 1417 33.2% 34.9%
To the body 81 / 136 59.6% 69.3% 167 / 212 78.8% 69.5%
To the legs 121 / 168 72.0% 77.9% 88 / 98 89.8% 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 Ricci L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med vs Fiorot L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 658 / 1653 39.8% 39.7% 419 / 1313 31.9% 38.8%
In the clinch 79 / 128 61.7% 71.5% 34 / 67 50.7% 74.1%
On the ground 21 / 27 77.8% 74.4% 6 / 8 too few to rate 73.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 489 / 1433 34.1% 36.0% 246 / 1066 23.1% 35.3%
To the body 184 / 271 67.9% 68.4% 106 / 186 57.0% 69.0%
To the legs 85 / 104 81.7% 79.1% 107 / 136 78.7% 78.7%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

2534.7% acc · 2.37/15 · norm 1.10
Takedowns landed
929.0% acc · 1.05/15 · norm 1.02
1954.3% def · norm 64.1%
Takedowns stopped
2187.5% def · norm 58.95%
39:4225.1% of cage time · norm 19.4%
Control time
17:3113.6% of cage time · norm 19.15%
14:511:24 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
4:270:31 per 15 · norm 3:03
10.09/15 · norm 0.29
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.32

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

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