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Yushin Okami vs.
Aleksei Kunchenko

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

14-7-0 Yushin Okami · UFC
2-2-0 Aleksei Kunchenko · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

14-7-0
UFC record
2-2-0
Middleweight
Division (benchmark)
Welterweight
45
AgeΔ 3 yrs
42
6'2"
HeightΔ 6"
5'8"
75"
ReachΔ 5"
70"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
92.1
Layoff (months)Δ 15.4 mo
76.7
LWLLW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLWW
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.

Yushin Okami owns the mat — in control 38% of cage time, vs a 20% Middleweight norm.
Aleksei Kunchenko rarely shoots — 0.25 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.27 Welterweight norm.
Yushin Okami hunts takedowns — 1.96 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.42 Middleweight 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.

Yushin Okami

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

In the UFC: 10-6 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.7 wins over .500

Aleksei Kunchenko

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

In the UFC: 2-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +5.8 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

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

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

5132.03/min · norm 3.25
Sig. strikes landed
2203.67/min · norm 3.17
5672.25/min · norm 3.20
Sig. strikes absorbed
1702.83/min · norm 3.06
38.5%norm 47.4%
Striking accuracy
44.4%norm 44.9%
61.0%norm 53.8%
Striking defense
63.8%norm 55.25%
40.24/15 · norm 0.32
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.38

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

Yushin Okami

Distance 75.0% (norm 79.4%) · Clinch 5.9% (norm 9.1%) · Ground 19.1% (norm 10.3%)

Aleksei Kunchenko

Distance 87.1% (norm 81.2%) · Clinch 10.1% (norm 9.4%) · Ground 2.8% (norm 8.1%)

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

Yushin Okami

Head 90.6% (norm 78.0%) · Body 6.2% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 3.1% (norm 8.4%)

Aleksei Kunchenko

Head 73.0% (norm 78.2%) · Body 11.7% (norm 12.4%) · Legs 15.3% (norm 8.4%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Okami L/AAccMiddleweight med Kunchenko L/AAccWelterweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 285 / 1000 28.5% 40.5% 172 / 432 39.8% 38.6%
In the clinch 69 / 79 87.3% 70.3% 38 / 50 76.0% 67.8%
On the ground 159 / 255 62.4% 69.1% 10 / 14 too few to rate 67.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 405 / 1209 33.5% 38.9% 125 / 362 34.5% 37.2%
To the body 73 / 83 88.0% 71.7% 34 / 58 58.6% 70.7%
To the legs 35 / 42 83.3% 83.3% 61 / 76 80.3% 82.9%

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 (Middleweight: 174 fighters · Welterweight: 182 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 Okami L/AOpp accMiddleweight med vs Kunchenko L/AOpp accWelterweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 361 / 1187 30.4% 39.5% 153 / 444 34.5% 39.0%
In the clinch 164 / 210 78.1% 70.9% 5 / 9 too few to rate 68.9%
On the ground 42 / 57 73.7% 69.0% 12 / 17 too few to rate 68.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 299 / 1092 27.4% 37.9% 73 / 317 23.0% 35.6%
To the body 81 / 137 59.1% 71.3% 37 / 72 51.4% 69.6%
To the legs 187 / 225 83.1% 82.1% 60 / 81 74.1% 82.1%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

3337.9% acc · 1.96/15 · norm 1.42
Takedowns landed
133.3% acc · 0.25/15 · norm 1.27
5584.6% def · norm 63.1%
Takedowns stopped
2180.8% def · norm 63.9%
95:5538.0% of cage time · norm 19.75%
Control time
2:093.6% of cage time · norm 18.5%
33:291:59 per 15 · norm 3:00
Time under control
13:063:16 per 15 · norm 3:15
90.54/15 · norm 0.47
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.45

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

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