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Victoria Leonardo vs.
Natalia Silva

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

1-4-0 Victoria Leonardo · UFC
8-0-0 Natalia Silva · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

1-4-0
UFC record
8-0-0
Women's Flyweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Flyweight
36.5
AgeΔ 7 yrs
29.5
5'5"
HeightΔ 1"
5'4"
64"
ReachΔ 1"
65"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
23.4
Layoff (months)Δ 17 mo
6.4
LLWLL
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.

Natalia Silva carries real power — 0.29 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.09 Women's Flyweight norm.
Natalia Silva rarely shoots — 0.43 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.02 Women's Flyweight norm.
Victoria Leonardo absorbs 5.38 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 3.81 Women's Flyweight norm — hittable.
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.

Victoria Leonardo

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 34
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 20
Tier 3 — regional circuit 53

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.42 · 5 tier-1/2 wins · 6 finish wins over 17 documented bouts

In the UFC: 0-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.2 wins over .500

Natalia Silva

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 80
Tier 3 — regional circuit 125

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.02 · 8 tier-1/2 wins · 12 finish wins over 26 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-0 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.4 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

1072.81/min · norm 3.91
Sig. strikes landed
5024.81/min · norm 3.91
2055.38/min · norm 3.81
Sig. strikes absorbed
2462.36/min · norm 3.81
34.6%norm 44.9%
Striking accuracy
45.3%norm 44.9%
46.8%norm 55.95%
Striking defense
66.3%norm 55.95%
00.00/15 · norm 0.09
Knockdowns
20.29/15 · norm 0.09

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

Victoria Leonardo

Distance 90.9% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 7.8% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 1.3% (norm 4.9%)

Natalia Silva

Distance 96.6% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 1.4% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 2.0% (norm 4.9%)

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

Victoria Leonardo

Head 70.6% (norm 78.1%) · Body 18.8% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 10.7% (norm 7.7%)

Natalia Silva

Head 74.4% (norm 78.1%) · Body 14.8% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 10.8% (norm 7.7%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Leonardo L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med Silva L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 86 / 281 30.6% 39.9% 474 / 1071 44.3% 39.9%
In the clinch 18 / 24 too few to rate 73.3% 13 / 16 too few to rate 73.3%
On the ground 3 / 4 too few to rate 74.7% 15 / 22 too few to rate 74.7%
BY TARGET
To the head 48 / 218 22.0% 34.9% 289 / 825 35.0% 34.9%
To the body 34 / 58 58.6% 69.5% 107 / 164 65.2% 69.5%
To the legs 25 / 33 75.8% 82.6% 106 / 120 88.3% 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 Flyweight: 46 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 Leonardo L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med vs Silva L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 170 / 337 50.4% 38.8% 232 / 708 32.8% 38.8%
In the clinch 33 / 42 78.6% 74.1% 14 / 23 too few to rate 74.1%
On the ground 2 / 6 too few to rate 73.4% 0 / 0 too few to rate 73.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 119 / 278 42.8% 35.3% 130 / 530 24.5% 35.3%
To the body 43 / 60 71.7% 69.0% 58 / 114 50.9% 69.0%
To the legs 43 / 47 91.5% 78.7% 58 / 87 66.7% 78.7%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

218.2% acc · 0.79/15 · norm 1.02
Takedowns landed
330.0% acc · 0.43/15 · norm 1.02
571.4% def · norm 58.95%
Takedowns stopped
2890.3% def · norm 58.95%
9:3525.1% of cage time · norm 19.15%
Control time
6:045.8% of cage time · norm 19.15%
4:281:45 per 15 · norm 3:03
Time under control
19:342:48 per 15 · norm 3:03
00.00/15 · norm 0.32
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.32

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

Next move

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