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Viviane Araujo vs.
Talita Bernardo

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

7-6-0 Viviane Araujo · UFC
1-3-0 Talita Bernardo · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

7-6-0
UFC record
1-3-0
Women's Flyweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Bantamweight
39.7
AgeΔ 0.3 yrs
39.4
5'4"
HeightΔ 0"
5'4"
68"
ReachΔ 0"
68"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
13.3
Layoff (months)Δ 73.6 mo
86.9
LWLWL
Last 5 (newest first)
LWLL
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.

Viviane Araujo is a submission threat — 0.60 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.32 Women's Flyweight norm.
Talita Bernardo hunts takedowns — 1.62 per 15 minutes, vs a 0.91 Women's Bantamweight norm.
Viviane Araujo hunts takedowns — 1.72 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.

Viviane Araujo

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 87
Tier 3 — regional circuit 61

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.86 · 8 tier-1/2 wins · 7 finish wins over 22 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-5 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.0 wins over .500

Talita Bernardo

Full career not yet synced for Talita Bernardo — 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 -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

7723.84/min · norm 3.91
Sig. strikes landed
1743.12/min · norm 3.56
9704.83/min · norm 3.81
Sig. strikes absorbed
2254.04/min · norm 3.51
47.5%norm 44.9%
Striking accuracy
42.1%norm 46.65%
55.9%norm 55.95%
Striking defense
55.7%norm 52.45%
10.07/15 · norm 0.09
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.08

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

Viviane Araujo

Distance 96.2% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 1.4% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 2.3% (norm 4.9%)

Talita Bernardo

Distance 91.8% (norm 80.3%) · Clinch 2.2% (norm 9.7%) · Ground 6.1% (norm 7.5%)

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

Viviane Araujo

Head 85.1% (norm 78.1%) · Body 8.8% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 6.1% (norm 7.7%)

Talita Bernardo

Head 80.9% (norm 75.2%) · Body 7.3% (norm 14.3%) · Legs 11.9% (norm 8.8%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Araujo L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med Bernardo L/AAccWomen's Bantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 730 / 1565 46.6% 39.9% 148 / 379 39.1% 38.3%
In the clinch 17 / 23 too few to rate 73.3% 7 / 9 too few to rate 73.3%
On the ground 25 / 38 65.8% 74.7% 19 / 25 76.0% 70.8%
BY TARGET
To the head 571 / 1384 41.3% 34.9% 106 / 334 31.7% 37.7%
To the body 112 / 143 78.3% 69.5% 24 / 30 80.0% 70.0%
To the legs 89 / 99 89.9% 82.6% 44 / 49 89.8% 80.9%

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 (Women's Flyweight: 46 fighters · Women's Bantamweight: 40 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 Araujo L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med vs Bernardo L/AOpp accWomen's Bantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 841 / 2025 41.5% 38.8% 153 / 398 38.4% 41.3%
In the clinch 69 / 101 68.3% 74.1% 16 / 22 too few to rate 74.7%
On the ground 60 / 74 81.1% 73.4% 56 / 88 63.6% 74.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 623 / 1723 36.2% 35.3% 174 / 440 39.5% 38.1%
To the body 183 / 282 64.9% 69.0% 29 / 40 72.5% 73.2%
To the legs 164 / 195 84.1% 78.7% 22 / 28 78.6% 80.9%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

2343.4% acc · 1.72/15 · norm 1.02
Takedowns landed
622.2% acc · 1.62/15 · norm 0.91
3075.0% def · norm 58.95%
Takedowns stopped
228.6% def · norm 62.5%
41:4220.8% of cage time · norm 19.15%
Control time
19:4035.3% of cage time · norm 26.55%
27:482:04 per 15 · norm 3:03
Time under control
7:392:03 per 15 · norm 3:19
80.60/15 · norm 0.32
Submission attempts
20.54/15 · norm 0.34

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

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