Bia Mesquita vs Kayla Harrison — Compare

Compare any two UFC fighters

Bia Mesquita

7-0W3Women's Bantamweight

American Top Team

Anchored to Women's Bantamweight

Kayla Harrison

19-1W3Women's Bantamweight

American Top Team

Data current through Jun 20, 2026

Tale of the Tape

The biometric deltas where one side genuinely has an edge.

Bia MesquitavsKayla Harrison

Age

Even

5'6"

168cm

Height

taller

5'8"

173cm

67"

170cm

Reach

reach

66"

168cm

Edge sizeSlightNotableMajor

Activity & layoff

The recency dimension Tale of the Tape doesn't carry. How active each fighter has been, and how that compares to active peers in their division.

Matchup-relevant delta

Kayla has 1 year more layoff

Time since last UFC bout

Bia4 days

Kayla1 year

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Bia Mesquita

Active

4 dayssince last bout

vs Melissa Mullins · Jun 20, 2026

Kayla Harrison

Layoff

1 yearsince last bout

vs Julianna Pena · Jun 7, 2025

Shared training affiliations

Camps both fighters currently affiliate with. The strongest signal first; secondary ties follow.

Primary teammates

American Top Team

Coconut Creek, United States

Elite

Roster

128

Bia Mesquita and Kayla Harrison are primary teammates at American Top Team.

Bia MesquitaPrimaryKayla HarrisonPrimary

Current affiliations only. Past camps the fighters may have shared (and since left) aren’t tracked in our schema yet, so absence below doesn’t rule out historical teammate ties.

Division context

Division percentiles below rank both fighters against the Women's Bantamweight roster (31 fighters).

Recent form

Last five pro bouts (non-UFC fights dashed + tagged), current trajectory, and the level of opposition going into this matchup.

Bia Mesquita

Kayla Harrison

Mesquita — last 5

recent → old

WLFA

KO R2

Dinwoodie

Jun ’25

WLFA

OTHER R2

Chase

Mar ’25

Harrison — last 5

recent → old

WPFL

DEC

Ladd

Nov ’23

LPFL

DEC

Pacheco

Nov ’22

Last 5 record

5-0

4-1

Current streak

Ranked opps

1 of 5

3 of 5

Layoff

4 d

13 mo

Schedule Score

Who they've faced × what they've done. Composite + components compared head-to-head, percentile-ranked against every UFC fighter w/ ≥3 resolved bouts.

UFC only

Bia Mesquita

Schedule Score

Kayla Harrison

Schedule Score

UFC experienceTotal octagon time + bouts

13 min

3 bouts

Octagon time

19 min

32 min

3 bouts

Schedule strength

30%

94%

Win quality

79%

100%

Ranked opponents

Title-holder bouts

Opponent quality distribution

every UFC bout, bucketed by who the opponent was at the time

Bia Mesquita

3 bouts

Kayla Harrison

3 bouts

Champion

Top-5

Top-15

Building

Unproven

Pre-UFC opposition

non-UFC slate for each fighter, from opponents’ full pro records

Comparable level of opposition — both faced slates around .685 opponent win rate.

Bia Mesquita

Opponents' combined record

9-4

.692 win rate

Winning-record opponents

2 of 2

carried winning pro records

Pro bouts faced

2 opponents with records on file

A descriptive read of the non-UFC slate from opponents’ full career pro records — not a UFC-grade Schedule Score.

Kayla Harrison

Strong

Opponents' combined record

170-81-1

.677 win rate

Winning-record opponents

11 of 14

carried winning pro records

Pro bouts faced

14 opponents with records on file

A descriptive read of the non-UFC slate from opponents’ full career pro records — not a UFC-grade Schedule Score.

Per-tier records + bout-by-bout

Per-tier records

Tier	Bia Mesquita	Kayla Harrison
Champion	—	2-0
Top-5	—	1-0
Top-15	1-0	—
Building	1-0	—
Unproven	1-0	—

Bia Mesquita — bouts

Kayla Harrison — bouts

All figures are 0–100 ratings (shown as %), not percentages of anything literal. Schedule strength = the average quality of every UFC opponent faced (win or lose). Win quality = the average quality of the opponents actually beaten. The composite Schedule Score combines schedule strength (65%) with win quality (35%). Per-bout opponent quality is scored on rank-at-time-of-fight (champion 100, ranks 1–5 = 90→78, ranks 6–15 = 75→60), with cross-division and P4P signals layered on, falling back to opponent UFC record-at-time for unranked opponents. For fighters with limited UFC experience the headline is held toward a rookie baseline, so debut / low-sample fighters read lower than established names. UFC ranking data is sparse before December 2018, so legacy-era fighters score from record-at-time when ranks are missing.

Striking matchup

Each fighter's offense mapped against the other's defense — where one attacks meets where the other gets hit, across head, body, and leg. Per 15 minutes of UFC fight time.

UFC only

Overall Striking

Striking

77th

Even

74th

Evenly matched striking — no clear edge either way.

Attacking

Mesquita’s offensevsHarrison’s defense

Where Mesquita attacks (green = high volume) vs where Harrison gets hit (red = vulnerable) — Mesquita’s green zones meeting Harrison’s red zones are the openings.

Bia MesquitaOffense

Head93%70th53
Body4%41st2
Leg4%48th2

Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share of strikes

Kayla HarrisonDefense

Head60%70th21
Body17%71st6
Leg23%57th8

Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share absorbed · partly opponent-dependent

Mesquita — by position

81%Ground

Standing19%11
Clinch0%0
Ground81%46

Harrison — absorbed by position

77%Standing

Standing77%27
Clinch9%3
Ground14%5

Each lane: the attacker’s strike rate (offense) vs the other’s rate absorbed (defense), graded on the division. The bar leans toward whoever wins the exchange — longer + greener = a bigger, higher-quality edge.

Mesquita’s offensevsHarrison’s defense

Head

70th

40.5

Even

70th

26.2

Body

41st

9.5

+30

71st

8.3

Leg

48th

7.0

57th

6.6

Harrison’s offensevsMesquita’s defense

Head

70th

39.0

+16

53rd

32.2

Body

56th

12.0

Even

49th

10.0

Leg

49th

7.2

Even

52nd

7.5

Full breakdown — all zones, both views

Zone	Fighter	Landed / 15	Accuracy	Absorbed / 15	Career landed
Head	Bia Mesquita	top 30% of division40.5	56%	around division average32.2	53
Head	Kayla Harrison	top 30% of division39.0	56%	top 30% of division26.2	97
Body	Bia Mesquita	below division average9.5	67%	around division average10.0	2
Body	Kayla Harrison	above division average12.0	90%	top 29% of division8.3	27
Leg	Bia Mesquita	around division average7.0	67%	around division average7.5	2
Leg	Kayla Harrison	around division average7.2	80%	above division average6.6	12

Per-15-minute rates are sourced from UFCStats fight totals across each fighter’s UFC career. Division percentile is computed against every UFC fighter who has competed in this weight class with at least two recorded bouts. Lower “absorbed” values are better — the percentile is inverted so “top of division” always means better outcome.

Grappling matchup

Takedowns, submission threat, and control. Per 15 minutes of UFC fight time, with takedown defense as a percentage of opponent attempts stopped.

UFC only

Bia Mesquita

Kayla Harrison

Each metric graded on the division — the bar leans toward whoever wins that part of the grappling exchange (longer + greener = a bigger edge).

Overall Grappling

Grappling

77th

Even

71st

Evenly matched grappling — no clear edge either way.

Takedowns

72nd

3.6

Even

75th

2.8

Takedown accuracy

75%

3/4

47th

38%

6/16

Takedown defense

0/1

100%

2/2

Submission threat

A+

91st

3.6

+14

77th

0.9

Control time

67th

8.1 min

+18

85th

8.9 min

Full breakdown — career grappling totals

Metric	Bia Mesquita	Kayla Harrison
Takedowns landed / 15career takedowns	3.63	2.86
Takedown accuracycareer landed / attempted	75%3 / 4	38%6 / 16
Takedown defensecareer stopped / faced	0%0 / 1	100%2 / 2
Submission attempts / 15career attempts	3.63	0.92
Control time / 15 (min)career total	8.1 min6:51	8.9 min18:50
Time controlled by opponent / 15 (min)career total	1.7 min1:27	0.1 min0:15

All rates computed from UFCStats fight totals across each fighter’s UFC career. Takedown defense = opponent attempts stopped ÷ opponent total attempts. Control time figures are minutes the fighter spent in a dominant position per 15 minutes of fight time. Accuracy under 8 career attempts is shown raw and ungraded — too small a sample to rate against the division.

Finishing & durability

How often each fighter ends fights early — and how often they get put away. Outcomes view, not per-minute output.

Bia Mesquita

Kayla Harrison

When their fights end

every pro finish on the fight clock

Mesquita7W–0L by finish

Harrison14W–0L by finish · 64% in round 1

0:00

5:00

10:00

15:00

Win(above)Loss(below)KO / TKOSubmissionPosition = when the fight ended

Finish & durability rates

Full professional career

Finish rate

↑12%·Mesquita

percent of wins ending by KO or submission

↑12%·Mesquita

68th

86%

+13

55th

74%

Goes the distance

Both finishers

percent of resolved bouts going to a decision (style read, not quality)

Both finishers

30%

KO durability

Even

percent of resolved bouts ending in a KO/TKO loss

Even

74th

Even

74th

Submission defense

Even

percent of resolved bouts ending by submission loss

Even

48th

Even

48th

Full method breakdown

Outcome	Bia Mesquita	Kayla Harrison
Wins
by KO / TKO	1(14%)	6(32%)
by submission	5(71%)	8(42%)
by decision	0(0%)	5(26%)
other	1(14%)	0(0%)
Losses
by KO / TKO	0	0(0%)
by submission	0	0(0%)
by decision	0	1(100%)
other	0	0(0%)

Full professional career method splits, graded against the full-pro division distribution. Career KO losses are the total — clean knockouts and cut/injury stoppages can’t be separated outside the UFC corpus. Finish-time pace is UFC-only.

KO history

UFC fights only — knockout power and chin durability, head-to-head, then when the last finish landed, and on whom.

Bia Mesquita

Kayla Harrison

0 KO/TKO in 3 bouts

Knockout rate

0 KO/TKO in 3 bouts

0.0 / 100 head

Knockdowns dealt

0.0 / 100 head

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Clean KO losses

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

0.0 / 100 head

Knockdowns absorbed

0.0 / 100 head

Chin bars use a league scale: green = clean record, red = bottom ~10% of UFC fighters (4+ KO losses · 6+ knockdowns absorbed).

Bia MesquitaFinish timeline

Last time KO'd
Never finished by strikes in the UFC
Last time submitted
Never submitted in the UFC

Kayla HarrisonFinish timeline

Last time KO'd
Never finished by strikes in the UFC
Last time submitted
Never submitted in the UFC

Pace & fade

How each fighter's work rate holds up as a fight wears on — round-by-round output (striking, takedown attempts, and control time combined), and whether they fade. The fade % compares round-3 output to round 1 over bouts that reached the third round.

UFC only

Bia Mesquita

—

< 2 bouts to R3

Kayla Harrison

—

< 2 bouts to R3

Neither fighter has reached the third round in enough UFC bouts to read a reliable pace pattern — most of their fights end early. The round-by-round pace below is shown for what rounds there are.

Mesquita

HarrisonOutput / min

Faded points are drawn from a single bout that reached that round, so they’re less reliable than the solid points averaged over many fights.

Rounds backed by fewer than 2 bouts are drawn smaller and dimmed with an n= count — a deep round seen in one or two fights is a thin sample, not a settled rate. Per-round bout counts are in the breakdown below.

Full per-round breakdown — both fighters

What drives the pace · per round

The composite output line above blends these three inputs. Splitting them out shows whether a fighter’s work rate is built on striking volume, takedown pressure, or top control — and which input fades.

Sig. strikes landed

Mesquita

Harrisonlanded / min

Takedown attempts

Mesquita

Harrisonattempts / min

Control time

Mesquita

Harrison% of round

Round	Fighter	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	Bia Mesquita	8.3	5.5	1.3	0.19	55%	3
R1	Kayla Harrison	8.6	4.7	0.8	0.47	61%	3
R2	Bia Mesquita	4.7	0.0	1.3	0.90	49%	1
R2	Kayla Harrison	7.1	3.6	1.5	0.43	56%	3
R3	Bia Mesquita	—	—	—	—	—	—
R3	Kayla Harrison	9.5	4.6	1.0	0.80	62%	1

Output / minis the headline work rate — significant strikes landed, plus 3 per takedown attempt, plus one per 15 seconds of control — so a takedown-and-grind round isn’t scored as idle the way bare striking volume would. The remaining columns are its components. Per-round rates use UFCStats per-round data (available for ~95% of bouts since 2008). Each round’s rates are averaged only over bouts that reached that round, so the bout count shrinks as rounds deepen. The final round of a finished fight is pro-rated by its actual length — a 2:30 stoppage counts as 2.5 minutes, not five — so an early finish doesn’t distort the per-minute pace.

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