Compare Gillian Robertson vs Yan Xiaonan — UFC matchup breakdown
Tale of the Tape
The biometric deltas where one side genuinely has an edge.
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.
- Yan has 11 months more layoff
Division percentiles below rank both fighters against the Strawweight roster (79 fighters).
Recent form
Last five pro bouts (non-UFC fights dashed + tagged), current trajectory, and the level of opposition going into this matchup.
Common opponents
Every UFC opponent both fighters have faced — a direct comparison controlling for matchmaking.
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.
Per-tier records + bout-by-bout
| Tier | Gillian Robertson | Yan Xiaonan |
|---|---|---|
| Champion | — | 2-2 |
| Top-5 | 2-2 | 2-2 |
| Top-15 | 7-4 | 2-0 |
| Established | 2-0 | — |
| Building | — | 1-0 |
| Unproven | 3-0 | 2-0 |
- W vs Amanda Lemos#585Mar 14, 2026 · Top-5
- W vs Marina Rodriguez#982May 3, 2025 · Top-5
- W vs Luana Pinheiro#1368Nov 9, 2024 · Top-15
- W vs Michelle Waterson-Gomez#1466Jun 29, 2024 · Top-15
- W vs Polyana Viana#1560Jan 20, 2024 · Top-15
- L vs Tabatha Ricci#1569Jun 24, 2023 · Top-15
- W vs Piera Rodriguez22Apr 15, 2023 · Established
- W vs Mariya Agapova12Sep 17, 2022 · Unproven
- L vs JJ Aldrich51Mar 12, 2022 · Top-15
- W vs Priscila Cachoeira12Dec 11, 2021 · Unproven
- L vs Miranda Maverick48Mar 27, 2021 · Top-15
- L vs Taila Santos63Dec 19, 2020 · Top-5
- W vs Poliana Botelho#1561Oct 17, 2020 · Top-15
- W vs Cortney Casey#1560Jun 20, 2020 · Top-15
- L vs Maycee Barber#1275Oct 18, 2019 · Top-5
- W vs Sarah Frota8Jul 27, 2019 · Unproven
- W vs Veronica Hardy22Feb 23, 2019 · Established
- L vs Mayra Bueno Silva42Sep 22, 2018 · Top-15
- W vs Molly McCann43May 27, 2018 · Top-15
- W vs Emily Whitmire42Dec 1, 2017 · Top-15
- L vs Virna Jandiroba#391Apr 12, 2025 · Top-5
- W vs Tabatha Ricci#1072Nov 23, 2024 · Top-15
- L vs Zhang WeiliCHAMP100Apr 13, 2024 · Champion
- W vs Jessica Andrade#495May 6, 2023 · Champion
- W vs Mackenzie Dern#592Oct 1, 2022 · Champion
- L vs Marina Rodriguez#389Mar 5, 2022 · Top-5
- L vs Carla Esparza#493May 22, 2021 · Champion
- W vs Claudia Gadelha#487Nov 7, 2020 · Top-5
- W vs Karolina Kowalkiewicz#1478Feb 22, 2020 · Top-5
- W vs Angela Hill#1467Jun 8, 2019 · Top-15
- W vs Syuri Kondo8Nov 24, 2018 · Unproven
- W vs Viviane Pereira18Jun 23, 2018 · Building
- W vs Kailin Curran8Nov 25, 2017 · Unproven
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.
Career splits
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.
Xiaonan has the striking edge (+17).
Where Robertson attacks (green = high volume) vs where Xiaonan gets hit (red = vulnerable) — Robertson’s green zones meeting Xiaonan’s red zones are the openings.
- Head67%—377
- Body16%—90
- Leg17%—93
Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share of strikes
- Head71%—445
- Body18%—113
- Leg12%—73
Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share absorbed · partly opponent-dependent
- Standing50%281
- Clinch4%20
- Ground46%259
- Standing73%461
- Clinch9%55
- Ground18%115
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.
Full breakdown — all zones, both views
| Zone | Fighter | Landed / 15 | Accuracy | Absorbed / 15 | Career landed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Head | Gillian Robertson | 22.5 | 44% | 27.0 | 377 |
| Head | Yan Xiaonan | 37.4 | 38% | 27.8 | 599 |
| Body | Gillian Robertson | 5.4 | 56% | 5.4 | 90 |
| Body | Yan Xiaonan | 7.6 | 68% | 7.1 | 121 |
| Leg | Gillian Robertson | 5.5 | 71% | 2.9 | 93 |
| Leg | Yan Xiaonan | 12.2 | 76% | 4.6 | 196 |
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.
Each metric graded on the division — the bar leans toward whoever wins that part of the grappling exchange (longer + greener = a bigger edge).
Full breakdown — career grappling totals
| Metric | Gillian Robertson | Yan Xiaonan |
|---|---|---|
| Takedowns landed / 15career takedowns | 2.838 | 0.811 |
| Takedown accuracycareer landed / attempted | 41%38 / 93 | 73%11 / 15 |
| Takedown defensecareer stopped / faced | 39%7 / 18 | 65%37 / 57 |
| Submission attempts / 15career attempts | 0.912 | 0.00 |
| Control time / 15 (min)career total | 7.5 min102:36 | 1.2 min15:51 |
| Time controlled by opponent / 15 (min)career total | 2.2 min30:05 | 4.4 min57:27 |
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.
When their fights end
every pro finish on the fight clockFinish & durability rates
Full professional career
Full method breakdown
| Outcome | Gillian Robertson | Yan Xiaonan |
|---|---|---|
| Wins | ||
| by KO / TKO | 3(18%) | 8(42%) |
| by submission | 9(53%) | 1(5%) |
| by decision | 5(29%) | 10(53%) |
| Losses | ||
| by KO / TKO | 1(13%) | 1(20%) |
| by submission | 1(13%) | 1(20%) |
| by decision | 6(75%) | 3(60%) |
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.
- Last time KO'dvs Maycee Barber6y 8mo agoUFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Weidman · Oct 18, 2019 · R1 · 3:04
- Last time submittedvs Mayra Bueno Silva7y 9mo agoUFC Fight Night: Marreta vs. Anders · Sep 22, 2018 · R1 · 4:55
- Last time KO'dvs Carla Esparza5y 1mo agoUFC Fight Night: Font vs. Garbrandt · May 22, 2021 · R2 · 2:58
- Last time submittedNever 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.
Cardio edge to Xiaonan: Xiaonan builds (+14% per round through round 3) while Robertson holds steady (+1% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Robertson lifts to 119% of round-1 output by round 3, Xiaonan 127%.
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.
| Round | Fighter | Output / min | Sig landed / min | Sig absorbed / min | TD att / min | Control | Bouts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | Gillian Robertson | 5.8 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 0.49 | 45% | 20 |
| R1 | Yan Xiaonan | 4.9 | 4.4 | 2.7 | 0.08 | 7% | 13 |
| R2 | Gillian Robertson | 6.5 | 2.9 | 2.2 | 0.40 | 60% | 16 |
| R2 | Yan Xiaonan | 5.3 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 0.12 | 8% | 12 |
| R3 | Gillian Robertson | 5.9 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 0.43 | 44% | 9 |
| R3 | Yan Xiaonan | 6.4 | 5.9 | 3.5 | 0.05 | 9% | 11 |
| R4 | Gillian Robertson | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| R4 | Yan Xiaonan | 4.8 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 0.00 | 16% | 2 |
| R5 | Gillian Robertson | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| R5 | Yan Xiaonan | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.00 | 2% | 2 |
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.