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Vanessa Demopoulos vs.
JJ Aldrich

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

5-5-0 Vanessa Demopoulos · UFC
11-6-0 JJ Aldrich · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

5-5-0
UFC record
11-6-0
Women's Strawweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Flyweight
37
AgeΔ 4 yrs
33
5'2"
HeightΔ 3"
5'5"
59"
ReachΔ 8"
67"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
13.7
Layoff (months)Δ 10.1 mo
3.6
LLLWW
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.

Vanessa Demopoulos rarely shoots — 0.36 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.10 Women's Strawweight norm.
Vanessa Demopoulos's takedown defense leaks — 28% stopped, vs a 64% Women's Strawweight norm.
JJ Aldrich rarely shoots — 0.70 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.02 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.

Vanessa Demopoulos

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 56
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 52
Tier 3 — regional circuit 10

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.83 · 10 tier-1/2 wins · 5 finish wins over 19 documented bouts

In the UFC: 0-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.2 wins over .500

JJ Aldrich

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 116
Tier 3 — regional circuit 41

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.99 · 11 tier-1/2 wins · 3 finish wins over 22 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-2 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

4513.58/min · norm 3.77
Sig. strikes landed
9223.92/min · norm 3.91
7125.66/min · norm 3.94
Sig. strikes absorbed
10224.34/min · norm 3.81
39.9%norm 44.5%
Striking accuracy
46.1%norm 44.9%
40.6%norm 54.4%
Striking defense
61.9%norm 55.95%
10.12/15 · norm 0.00
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.09

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

Vanessa Demopoulos

Distance 86.9% (norm 86.9%) · Clinch 7.8% (norm 7.7%) · Ground 5.3% (norm 5.0%)

JJ Aldrich

Distance 87.6% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 7.0% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 5.4% (norm 4.9%)

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

Vanessa Demopoulos

Head 79.9% (norm 76.4%) · Body 14.6% (norm 14.9%) · Legs 5.5% (norm 9.1%)

JJ Aldrich

Head 88.4% (norm 78.1%) · Body 7.9% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 3.7% (norm 7.7%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Demopoulos L/AAccWomen's Strawweight med Aldrich L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 337 / 983 34.3% 38.3% 741 / 1752 42.3% 39.9%
In the clinch 63 / 88 71.6% 72.6% 102 / 139 73.4% 73.3%
On the ground 51 / 60 85.0% 75.0% 79 / 108 73.1% 74.7%
BY TARGET
To the head 289 / 904 32.0% 35.4% 746 / 1768 42.2% 34.9%
To the body 115 / 165 69.7% 69.3% 118 / 158 74.7% 69.5%
To the legs 47 / 62 75.8% 77.9% 58 / 73 79.5% 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 Demopoulos L/AOpp accWomen's Strawweight med vs Aldrich L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 593 / 1036 57.2% 39.7% 853 / 2447 34.9% 38.8%
In the clinch 28 / 35 80.0% 71.5% 153 / 216 70.8% 74.1%
On the ground 91 / 128 71.1% 74.4% 16 / 20 too few to rate 73.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 499 / 953 52.4% 36.0% 528 / 1975 26.7% 35.3%
To the body 130 / 152 85.5% 68.4% 274 / 425 64.5% 69.0%
To the legs 83 / 94 88.3% 79.1% 220 / 283 77.7% 78.7%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

310.3% acc · 0.36/15 · norm 1.10
Takedowns landed
1125.6% acc · 0.70/15 · norm 1.02
527.8% def · norm 64.1%
Takedowns stopped
2767.5% def · norm 58.95%
15:5712.7% of cage time · norm 19.4%
Control time
39:0016.6% of cage time · norm 19.15%
36:474:22 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
16:301:03 per 15 · norm 3:03
20.24/15 · 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 — Aldrich has more cage time on record.

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