Don Frye vs. Amaury Bitetti

UFC 9-1-0 vs. 1-1-0

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
9-1-0
UFC record
1-1-0
Open Weight
Division (benchmark)
Middleweight
60
Age
6'1"
HeightΔ 4"
5'9"
Reach
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
356
Layoff (months)Δ 42.1 mo
313.9
WWWWW
Last 5 (newest first)
WL

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
Amaury Bitetti rarely shoots — 0.00 takedowns per 15 minutes, vs a 1.42 Middleweight norm.
Don Frye outworks the Open Weight division — 2.43 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 1.46 norm.
Opponents land 56% of their head shots on Amaury Bitetti, vs a 38% Middleweight norm — a hole in the guard.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Don Frye

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 21
Tier 3 — regional circuit 128

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.2 · 2 tier-1/2 wins · 12 finish wins over 25 documented bouts

In the UFC: 5-0 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.8 wins over .500

Amaury Bitetti

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 11
Tier 3 — regional circuit 41

Tier-weighted record quality: 0.58 · 1 tier-1/2 wins · 3 finish wins over 7 documented bouts

In the UFC: 0-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.5 wins over .500

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

1272.43/min · norm 1.46
Sig. strikes landed
80.53/min · norm 3.25
791.51/min · norm 1.68
Sig. strikes absorbed
583.81/min · norm 3.20
66.5%norm 45.8%
Striking accuracy
53.3%norm 47.4%
49.0%norm 49.0%
Striking defense
32.6%norm 53.8%
10.29/15 · norm 0.00
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.32

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

Don Frye

Distance 27.2% (norm 50.2%) · Clinch 29.3% (norm 14.9%) · Ground 43.5% (norm 28.7%)

Amaury Bitetti

Distance 40.0% (norm 79.4%) · Clinch 60.0% (norm 9.1%) · Ground 0.0% (norm 10.3%)

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

Don Frye

Head 69.6% (norm 81.2%) · Body 28.8% (norm 8.0%) · Legs 1.6% (norm 5.2%)

Amaury Bitetti

Head 80.0% (norm 78.0%) · Body 6.7% (norm 13.4%) · Legs 13.3% (norm 8.4%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Frye L/AAccOpen Weight med Bitetti L/AAccMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 14 / 52 26.9% 27.8% 4 / 6 too few to rate 40.5%
In the clinch 37 / 56 66.1% 63.8% 4 / 9 too few to rate 70.3%
On the ground 76 / 83 91.6% 65.8% 0 / 0 too few to rate 69.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 73 / 133 54.9% 39.3% 5 / 12 too few to rate 38.9%
To the body 51 / 55 92.7% 90.5% 1 / 1 too few to rate 71.7%
To the legs 3 / 3 too few to rate 53.5% 2 / 2 too few to rate 83.3%

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 (Open Weight: 11 fighters · Middleweight: 174 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 Frye L/AOpp accOpen Weight med vs Bitetti L/AOpp accMiddleweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 17 / 46 37.0% 37.0% 7 / 23 too few to rate 39.5%
In the clinch 31 / 53 58.5% 66.7% 17 / 25 68.0% 70.9%
On the ground 31 / 56 55.4% 67.1% 34 / 38 89.5% 69.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 63 / 134 47.0% 47.0% 35 / 62 56.5% 37.9%
To the body 13 / 17 too few to rate 87.9% 22 / 23 too few to rate 71.3%
To the legs 3 / 4 too few to rate 61.2% 1 / 1 too few to rate 82.1%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
466.7% acc · 1.15/15 · norm 1.15
Takedowns landed
00.0% acc · 0.00/15 · norm 1.42
1066.7% def · norm 66.7%
Takedowns stopped
150.0% def · norm 63.1%
— of cage time · norm 21.95%
Control time
0:133.8% of cage time · norm 19.75%
— per 15 · norm 0:39
Time under control
1:331:31 per 15 · norm 3:00
30.86/15 · norm 1.34
Submission attempts
00.00/15 · norm 0.47

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