Yadier del Valle vs. Jordan Leavitt

UFC 2-1-0 vs. 6-4-0

Tale of the tape

Green = edge on that line
2-1-0
UFC record
6-4-0
Featherweight
Division (benchmark)
Lightweight
30
AgeΔ 1 yrs
31
5'9"
HeightΔ 0"
5'9"
69"
ReachΔ 2"
71"
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
5.5
Layoff (months)Δ 3.4 mo
2.1
LWW
Last 5 (newest first)
LWWLW

The read

Stats 25%+ off the division median
Yadier del Valle is a submission threat — 2.78 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.46 Featherweight norm.
Jordan Leavitt is a submission threat — 1.05 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.49 Lightweight norm.
Jordan Leavitt hunts takedowns — 2.93 per 15 minutes, vs a 1.38 Lightweight norm.

Level of competition

Full-career record by tier of opposition

Yadier del Valle

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

In the UFC: 1-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.3 wins over .500

Jordan Leavitt

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 74
Tier 2 — LFA / Cage Warriors (feeder belts) 10
Tier 3 — regional circuit 50

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.36 · 8 tier-1/2 wins · 9 finish wins over 17 documented bouts

In the UFC: 2-4 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.7 wins over .500

Striking

Career totals · norms = own-division medians

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

231.07/min · norm 3.54
Sig. strikes landed
1612.25/min · norm 3.42
200.93/min · norm 3.47
Sig. strikes absorbed
1171.63/min · norm 3.37
41.8%norm 45.0%
Striking accuracy
58.3%norm 43.5%
64.3%norm 54.85%
Striking defense
58.9%norm 56.3%
00.00/15 · norm 0.29
Knockdowns
10.21/15 · norm 0.25

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

Yadier del Valle

Distance 81.8% (norm 85.7%) · Clinch 1.8% (norm 6.1%) · Ground 16.4% (norm 6.5%)

Jordan Leavitt

Distance 81.9% (norm 82.8%) · Clinch 10.5% (norm 7.6%) · Ground 7.6% (norm 8.0%)

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

Yadier del Valle

Head 58.2% (norm 77.4%) · Body 16.4% (norm 12.9%) · Legs 25.5% (norm 7.8%)

Jordan Leavitt

Head 36.6% (norm 78.2%) · Body 31.2% (norm 12.8%) · Legs 32.2% (norm 7.9%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

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

Zone Valle L/AAccFeatherweight med Leavitt L/AAccLightweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 14 / 45 31.1% 40.9% 129 / 226 57.1% 37.9%
In the clinch 1 / 1 too few to rate 70.8% 20 / 29 69.0% 67.3%
On the ground 8 / 9 too few to rate 69.2% 12 / 21 too few to rate 69.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 8 / 32 25.0% 37.2% 40 / 101 39.6% 35.0%
To the body 9 / 9 too few to rate 68.2% 41 / 86 47.7% 69.1%
To the legs 6 / 14 too few to rate 80.7% 80 / 89 89.9% 81.9%

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 (Featherweight: 126 fighters · Lightweight: 201 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 Valle L/AOpp accFeatherweight med vs Leavitt L/AOpp accLightweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 15 / 47 31.9% 39.2% 79 / 238 33.2% 38.9%
In the clinch 0 / 0 too few to rate 70.3% 12 / 13 too few to rate 68.6%
On the ground 5 / 9 too few to rate 69.4% 26 / 34 76.5% 68.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 7 / 24 too few to rate 35.9% 44 / 169 26.0% 35.1%
To the body 3 / 20 too few to rate 67.9% 55 / 70 78.6% 68.1%
To the legs 10 / 12 too few to rate 81.5% 18 / 46 39.1% 81.5%

Grappling

Takedowns, control, submissions vs. division norm
1100.0% acc · 0.69/15 · norm 1.19
Takedowns landed
1429.2% acc · 2.93/15 · norm 1.38
555.6% def · norm 61.5%
Takedowns stopped
330.0% def · norm 64.0%
6:3430.4% of cage time · norm 16.7%
Control time
28:3139.8% of cage time · norm 19.5%
8:135:42 per 15 · norm 3:12
Time under control
19:324:05 per 15 · norm 2:46
42.78/15 · norm 0.46
Submission attempts
51.05/15 · norm 0.49

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