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Vik Grujic vs.
Brendan O'Reilly

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

1-3-0 Vik Grujic · UFC
1-3-0 Brendan O'Reilly · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

1-3-0
UFC record
1-3-0
Welterweight
Division (benchmark)
Lightweight
49
AgeΔ 10 yrs
39
5'11"
HeightΔ 4"
5'7"
73"
ReachΔ 4"
69"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
134.9
Layoff (months)Δ 18.8 mo
116.1
LLWL
Last 5 (newest first)
LLWL
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.

Brendan O'Reilly owns the mat — in control 33% of cage time, vs a 20% Lightweight norm.
Brendan O'Reilly hunts takedowns — 2.22 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.38 Lightweight norm.
Vik Grujic's takedown defense leaks — 27% stopped, vs a 64% Welterweight 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.

Vik Grujic

Full career not yet synced for Vik Grujic — 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 -0.5 wins over .500

Brendan O'Reilly

Full career not yet synced for Brendan O'Reilly — tier grading appears once their record documentation lands (refreshes weekly).

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

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

852.24/min · norm 3.17
Sig. strikes landed
901.90/min · norm 3.42
1293.39/min · norm 3.06
Sig. strikes absorbed
1312.77/min · norm 3.37
48.3%norm 44.9%
Striking accuracy
47.4%norm 43.5%
41.9%norm 55.25%
Striking defense
39.9%norm 56.3%
00.00/15 · norm 0.38
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.25

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

Vik Grujic

Distance 54.0% (norm 81.2%) · Clinch 45.5% (norm 9.4%) · Ground 0.6% (norm 8.1%)

Brendan O'Reilly

Distance 48.9% (norm 82.8%) · Clinch 44.7% (norm 7.6%) · Ground 6.3% (norm 8.0%)

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

Vik Grujic

Head 85.8% (norm 78.2%) · Body 11.9% (norm 12.4%) · Legs 2.3% (norm 8.4%)

Brendan O'Reilly

Head 68.9% (norm 78.2%) · Body 22.6% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 8.4% (norm 7.9%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Grujic L/AAccWelterweight med O'Reilly L/AAccLightweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 34 / 95 35.8% 38.6% 32 / 93 34.4% 37.9%
In the clinch 51 / 80 63.8% 67.8% 52 / 85 61.2% 67.3%
On the ground 0 / 1 too few to rate 67.2% 6 / 12 too few to rate 69.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 64 / 151 42.4% 37.2% 49 / 131 37.4% 35.0%
To the body 17 / 21 too few to rate 70.7% 29 / 43 67.4% 69.1%
To the legs 4 / 4 too few to rate 82.9% 12 / 16 too few to rate 81.9%

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 (Welterweight: 182 fighters · Lightweight: 201 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 Grujic L/AOpp accWelterweight med vs O'Reilly L/AOpp accLightweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 36 / 93 38.7% 39.0% 40 / 91 44.0% 38.9%
In the clinch 59 / 85 69.4% 68.9% 69 / 99 69.7% 68.6%
On the ground 34 / 44 77.3% 68.0% 22 / 28 78.6% 68.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 64 / 139 46.0% 35.6% 79 / 162 48.8% 35.1%
To the body 52 / 64 81.2% 69.6% 35 / 39 89.7% 68.1%
To the legs 13 / 19 too few to rate 82.1% 17 / 17 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.

333.3% acc · 1.18/15 · norm 1.27
Takedowns landed
743.8% acc · 2.22/15 · norm 1.38
426.7% def · norm 63.9%
Takedowns stopped
436.4% def · norm 64.0%
8:3922.8% of cage time · norm 18.5%
Control time
15:2532.6% of cage time · norm 19.5%
19:527:50 per 15 · norm 3:15
Time under control
23:317:27 per 15 · norm 2:46
10.39/15 · norm 0.45
Submission attempts
20.63/15 · norm 0.49

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

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