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Also, a larger sample size could be used, but I honestly just didn't feel like doing the work. Other criteria for comparing divisions could be used, e.g. As such, rather than considering 115 the lowest weight, I'm considering it as the halfway point of the two ranked divisions and welterweight as a similar halfway point between men's divisions. I chose these two because the UFC only has 4 womens divisions, but only 2 have formal rankings. In the table below, you see the champ and top 5 (by ufc.com rankings) in the Men's Welterweight division and the Women's Strawweight division. This is how fights have actually manifested in the cage. These categories, I feel, encapsulate what we would call technical execution. The categories I chose were striking, submissions, takedowns, significant strike accuracy, significant strike defense and grappling defense. I just pulled somr data from UFC.com which focuses on offensive stats, and the UFC app which includes defensive stats.
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Magana is a bad example, but to examine how the women compare to the men, we can look at the bare bones numbers the ufc provides and see how they compare. There is a subjective judgement we can make based on the way people step or feint or avoid getting submitted, but we have to go by the actual data we have. Click to expand.My point is we can speculate on the skill levels of all the fighters we watch, but we have to go by the results we see in the cage.