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Victor Hugo vs.
Farid Basharat

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

1-1-0 Victor Hugo · UFC
7-0-0 Farid Basharat · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

1-1-0
UFC record
7-0-0
Featherweight
Division (benchmark)
Bantamweight
33
AgeΔ 4 yrs
29
5'7"
HeightΔ 1"
5'8"
71"
ReachΔ 0"
71"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
21.3
Layoff (months)Δ 20.4 mo
0.9
LW
Last 5 (newest first)
WWWWW
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.

Farid Basharat hunts takedowns — 3.66 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.12 Bantamweight norm.
Farid Basharat owns the mat — in control 32% of cage time, vs a 17% Bantamweight norm.
Victor Hugo carries real power — 0.50 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.29 Featherweight 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.

Victor Hugo

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

In the UFC: 0-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.5 wins over .500

Farid Basharat

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 80
Tier 3 — regional circuit 80

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.84 · 8 tier-1/2 wins · 7 finish wins over 16 documented bouts

In the UFC: 4-0 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.9 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

1133.77/min · norm 3.54
Sig. strikes landed
3713.94/min · norm 3.52
1023.40/min · norm 3.47
Sig. strikes absorbed
3273.47/min · norm 3.58
45.4%norm 45.0%
Striking accuracy
51.2%norm 43.4%
56.0%norm 54.85%
Striking defense
60.9%norm 56.6%
10.50/15 · norm 0.29
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.30

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

Victor Hugo

Distance 94.0% (norm 85.7%) · Clinch 6.0% (norm 6.1%) · Ground 0.0% (norm 6.5%)

Farid Basharat

Distance 87.7% (norm 87.4%) · Clinch 5.1% (norm 5.7%) · Ground 7.2% (norm 6.5%)

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

Victor Hugo

Head 63.9% (norm 77.4%) · Body 23.3% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 12.9% (norm 7.8%)

Farid Basharat

Head 74.6% (norm 77.4%) · Body 12.0% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 13.4% (norm 8.4%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Hugo L/AAccFeatherweight med Basharat L/AAccBantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 100 / 234 42.7% 40.9% 308 / 635 48.5% 39.0%
In the clinch 13 / 15 too few to rate 70.8% 28 / 37 75.7% 68.7%
On the ground 0 / 0 too few to rate 69.2% 35 / 52 67.3% 70.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 54 / 159 34.0% 37.2% 238 / 540 44.1% 34.9%
To the body 35 / 58 60.3% 68.2% 56 / 87 64.4% 66.8%
To the legs 24 / 32 75.0% 80.7% 77 / 97 79.4% 79.4%

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 (Featherweight: 126 fighters · Bantamweight: 117 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 Hugo L/AOpp accFeatherweight med vs Basharat L/AOpp accBantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 90 / 212 42.5% 39.2% 275 / 766 35.9% 39.3%
In the clinch 8 / 13 too few to rate 70.3% 42 / 59 71.2% 70.4%
On the ground 4 / 7 too few to rate 69.4% 10 / 11 too few to rate 72.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 66 / 181 36.5% 35.9% 186 / 608 30.6% 34.9%
To the body 14 / 25 56.0% 67.9% 86 / 127 67.7% 66.0%
To the legs 22 / 26 84.6% 81.5% 55 / 101 54.5% 79.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

125.0% acc · 0.50/15 · norm 1.19
Takedowns landed
2335.4% acc · 3.66/15 · norm 1.12
1575.0% def · norm 61.5%
Takedowns stopped
1254.5% def · norm 66.7%
1:073.7% of cage time · norm 16.7%
Control time
30:1032.0% of cage time · norm 17.4%
11:475:53 per 15 · norm 3:12
Time under control
9:031:26 per 15 · norm 2:24
10.50/15 · norm 0.46
Submission attempts
20.32/15 · norm 0.28

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

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