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Zarah Fairn vs.
Josiane Nunes

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

0-4-0 Zarah Fairn · UFC
3-3-0 Josiane Nunes · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

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

0-4-0
UFC record
3-3-0
Women's Featherweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Bantamweight
42
AgeΔ 10 yrs
32
5'8"
HeightΔ 6"
5'2"
72"
ReachΔ 5"
67"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
35.1
Layoff (months)Δ 18.4 mo
16.7
LLLL
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLWW
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.

Josiane Nunes carries real power — 0.67 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.08 Women's Bantamweight norm.
Zarah Fairn absorbs 7.40 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 2.33 Women's Featherweight norm — hittable.
Zarah Fairn rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.18 Women's Featherweight 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.

Zarah Fairn

Full career not yet synced for Zarah Fairn — 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

Josiane Nunes

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 33
Tier 3 — regional circuit 71

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.94 · 3 tier-1/2 wins · 7 finish wins over 14 documented bouts

In the UFC: 1-1 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

1714.55/min · norm 3.85
Sig. strikes landed
3825.65/min · norm 3.56
2787.40/min · norm 2.33
Sig. strikes absorbed
3905.76/min · norm 3.51
31.5%norm 51.0%
Striking accuracy
43.1%norm 46.65%
45.9%norm 64.3%
Striking defense
51.9%norm 52.45%
00.00/15 · norm 0.17
Knockdowns
30.67/15 · norm 0.08

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

Zarah Fairn

Distance 97.1% (norm 72.1%) · Clinch 2.9% (norm 16.0%) · Ground 0.0% (norm 11.9%)

Josiane Nunes

Distance 91.0% (norm 80.3%) · Clinch 7.1% (norm 9.7%) · Ground 1.9% (norm 7.5%)

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

Zarah Fairn

Head 90.8% (norm 74.7%) · Body 6.1% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 3.1% (norm 9.0%)

Josiane Nunes

Head 79.4% (norm 75.2%) · Body 15.0% (norm 14.3%) · Legs 5.6% (norm 8.8%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Fairn L/AAccWomen's Featherweight med Nunes L/AAccWomen's Bantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 160 / 527 30.4% 47.3% 330 / 807 40.9% 38.3%
In the clinch 11 / 16 too few to rate 78.3% 43 / 63 68.3% 73.3%
On the ground 0 / 0 too few to rate 69.1% 9 / 17 too few to rate 70.8%
BY TARGET
To the head 128 / 493 26.0% 42.9% 254 / 704 36.1% 37.7%
To the body 26 / 33 78.8% 79.1% 85 / 133 63.9% 70.0%
To the legs 17 / 17 too few to rate 82.0% 43 / 50 86.0% 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 Featherweight: 3 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 Fairn L/AOpp accWomen's Featherweight med vs Nunes L/AOpp accWomen's Bantamweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 207 / 417 49.6% 32.4% 356 / 761 46.8% 41.3%
In the clinch 31 / 45 68.9% 72.7% 18 / 22 too few to rate 74.7%
On the ground 40 / 52 76.9% 72.2% 16 / 27 59.3% 74.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 149 / 355 42.0% 26.3% 250 / 640 39.1% 38.1%
To the body 59 / 76 77.6% 60.3% 77 / 105 73.3% 73.2%
To the legs 70 / 83 84.3% 67.6% 63 / 65 96.9% 80.9%
Grappling

The ground war.

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

00.0% acc · 0.00/15 · norm 1.18
Takedowns landed
00.0% acc · 0.00/15 · norm 0.91
360.0% def · norm 71.9%
Takedowns stopped
758.3% def · norm 62.5%
0:351.6% of cage time · norm 24.0%
Control time
3:245.0% of cage time · norm 26.55%
7:533:08 per 15 · norm 2:26
Time under control
10:532:24 per 15 · norm 3:19
00.00/15 · norm 0.00
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.34

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

Next move

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