Skip to content

Vitor Petrino vs. Thomas Petersen

UFC 8-2-0 vs. 3-4-0

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
8-2-0
UFC record
3-4-0
Light Heavyweight
Division (benchmark)
Heavyweight
29
AgeΔ 2 yrs
31
6'2"
HeightΔ 1"
6'1"
77"
ReachΔ 3"
74"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
1.9
Layoff (months)Δ 1 mo
2.9
WWWWL
Last 5 (newest first)
LWLWL

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
Vitor Petrino hunts takedowns — 3.00 per 15 minutes, vs a 0.87 Light Heavyweight norm.
Thomas Petersen hunts takedowns — 2.59 per 15 minutes, vs a 0.90 Heavyweight norm.
Vitor Petrino is a submission threat — 0.68 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.28 Light Heavyweight norm.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Vitor Petrino

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 82
Tier 3 — regional circuit 60

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.7 · 8 tier-1/2 wins · 10 finish wins over 16 documented bouts

In the UFC: 3-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.6 wins over .500

Thomas Petersen

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

In the UFC: 2-3 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.1 wins over .500

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

3583.25/min · norm 3.48
Sig. strikes landed
2252.99/min · norm 3.28
2862.60/min · norm 3.37
Sig. strikes absorbed lower is better
1942.58/min · norm 3.19
51.0%norm 48.45%
Striking accuracy
58.3%norm 47.5%
52.6%norm 52.75%
Striking defense
55.7%norm 52.5%
30.41/15 · norm 0.40
Knockdowns
10.20/15 · norm 0.29

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

Vitor Petrino

Distance 85.3% (norm 80.5%) · Clinch 3.6% (norm 8.8%) · Ground 11.1% (norm 10.6%)

Thomas Petersen

Distance 78.0% (norm 79.2%) · Clinch 6.0% (norm 9.8%) · Ground 16.1% (norm 9.3%)

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

Vitor Petrino

Head 77.4% (norm 78.5%) · Body 13.0% (norm 11.8%) · Legs 9.7% (norm 9.7%)

Thomas Petersen

Head 76.4% (norm 79.2%) · Body 18.7% (norm 11.5%) · Legs 4.9% (norm 7.6%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Petrino L/AAccLight Heavyweight med Petersen L/AAccHeavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 283 / 599 47.2% 41.5% 168 / 301 55.8% 40.1%
In the clinch 16 / 25 64.0% 70.8% 16 / 23 too few to rate 70.4%
On the ground 59 / 78 75.6% 72.9% 41 / 62 66.1% 70.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 228 / 543 42.0% 39.2% 145 / 295 49.2% 39.0%
To the body 71 / 91 78.0% 72.0% 61 / 72 84.7% 77.0%
To the legs 59 / 68 86.8% 82.1% 19 / 19 too few to rate 87.8%

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 (Light Heavyweight: 94 fighters · Heavyweight: 93 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 Petrino L/AOpp accLight Heavyweight med vs Petersen L/AOpp accHeavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 246 / 555 44.3% 40.6% 163 / 392 41.6% 40.7%
In the clinch 29 / 37 78.4% 68.8% 22 / 33 66.7% 70.6%
On the ground 11 / 11 too few to rate 70.4% 9 / 13 too few to rate 72.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 159 / 447 35.6% 37.7% 131 / 348 37.6% 39.3%
To the body 61 / 82 74.4% 72.9% 50 / 75 66.7% 75.1%
To the legs 66 / 74 89.2% 83.1% 13 / 15 too few to rate 84.4%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
2248.9% acc · 3.00/15 · norm 0.87
Takedowns landed
1337.1% acc · 2.59/15 · norm 0.90
2382.1% def · norm 66.7%
Takedowns stopped
685.7% def · norm 63.2%
36:5933.6% of cage time · norm 17.1%
Control time
29:0438.7% of cage time · norm 17.2%
8:081:06 per 15 · norm 2:50
Time under control lower is better
3:170:39 per 15 · norm 2:28
50.68/15 · norm 0.28
Submission attempts
10.20/15 · norm 0.16

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