Compare Julianna Pena vs Miesha Tate — 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.
- Miesha is speeding up while opponent slows
Division percentiles below rank both fighters against the Bantamweight roster (341 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 | Julianna Pena | Miesha Tate |
|---|---|---|
| Champion | 2-2 | 1-3 |
| Top-5 | 3-2 | 3-4 |
| Top-15 | 2-0 | 2-0 |
| Unproven | 1-0 | 1-0 |
- L vs Kayla Harrison#297Jun 7, 2025 · Champion
- W vs Raquel PenningtonCHAMP100Oct 5, 2024 · Champion
- L vs Amanda Nunes#199Jul 30, 2022 · Champion
- W vs Amanda NunesCHAMP100Dec 11, 2021 · Champion
- W vs Sara McMann#979Jan 23, 2021 · Top-5
- L vs Germaine de Randamie#195Oct 3, 2020 · Top-5
- W vs Nicco Montano57Jul 13, 2019 · Top-15
- L vs Valentina Shevchenko#195Jan 28, 2017 · Top-5
- W vs Cat Zingano#388Jul 9, 2016 · Top-5
- W vs Jessica Eye#677Oct 3, 2015 · Top-5
- W vs Milana Dudieva8Apr 4, 2015 · Unproven
- W vs Jessica Rakoczy57Nov 30, 2013 · Top-15
- L vs Yana Santos#1075May 3, 2025 · Top-5
- W vs Julia Avila#1366Dec 2, 2023 · Top-15
- L vs Lauren Murphy#386Jul 16, 2022 · Top-5
- L vs Ketlen Vieira#782Nov 20, 2021 · Top-5
- W vs Marion Reneau#1272Jul 17, 2021 · Top-15
- L vs Raquel Pennington#890Nov 12, 2016 · Champion
- L vs Amanda Nunes#493Jul 9, 2016 · Champion
- W vs Holly HolmCHAMP100Mar 5, 2016 · Champion
- W vs Jessica Eye#677Jul 25, 2015 · Top-5
- W vs Sara McMann#384Jan 31, 2015 · Top-5
- W vs Rin Nakai8Sep 20, 2014 · Unproven
- W vs Liz Carmouche#780Apr 19, 2014 · Top-5
- L vs Ronda RouseyCHAMP100Dec 28, 2013 · Champion
- L vs Cat Zingano#487Apr 13, 2013 · Top-5
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.
Pena has the striking edge (+13).
Where Pena attacks (green = high volume) vs where Tate gets hit (red = vulnerable) — Pena’s green zones meeting Tate’s red zones are the openings.
- Head78%65th387
- Body19%48th92
- Leg3%14th14
Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share of strikes
- Head69%48th450
- Body18%59th120
- Leg12%63rd80
Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share absorbed · partly opponent-dependent
- Standing62%305
- Clinch13%65
- Ground25%123
- Standing69%448
- Clinch21%139
- Ground10%63
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 | Julianna Pena | above division average35.4 | 40% | above division average27.4 | 387 |
| Head | Miesha Tate | around division average29.7 | 40% | around division average33.8 | 398 |
| Body | Julianna Pena | around division average9.2 | 79% | above division average9.4 | 92 |
| Body | Miesha Tate | above division average12.2 | 63% | above division average9.3 | 169 |
| Leg | Julianna Pena | bottom of the division2.8 | 74% | above division average5.8 | 14 |
| Leg | Miesha Tate | well below average4.6 | 71% | above division average6.5 | 51 |
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).
Evenly matched grappling — no clear edge either way.
Full breakdown — career grappling totals
| Metric | Julianna Pena | Miesha Tate |
|---|---|---|
| Takedowns landed / 15career takedowns | 1.718 | 1.419 |
| Takedown accuracycareer landed / attempted | 55%18 / 33 | 25%19 / 75 |
| Takedown defensecareer stopped / faced | 24%7 / 29 | 59%27 / 46 |
| Submission attempts / 15career attempts | 0.88 | 0.912 |
| Control time / 15 (min)career total | 4.3 min45:07 | 4.7 min63:55 |
| Time controlled by opponent / 15 (min)career total | 5.2 min54:37 | 2.8 min38:33 |
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 | Julianna Pena | Miesha Tate |
|---|---|---|
| Wins | ||
| by KO / TKO | 3(25%) | 4(20%) |
| by submission | 5(42%) | 8(40%) |
| by decision | 4(33%) | 8(40%) |
| Losses | ||
| by KO / TKO | 1(17%) | 2(20%) |
| by submission | 3(50%) | 3(30%) |
| by decision | 2(33%) | 5(50%) |
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'dNever finished by strikes in the UFC
- Last time submittedvs Kayla Harrison1 year agoUFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2 · Jun 7, 2025 · R2 · 4:55
- Last time KO'dvs Cat Zingano13y 2mo agoThe Ultimate Fighter: Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen Finale · Apr 13, 2013 · R3 · 2:55
- Last time submittedvs Amanda Nunes9y 11mo agoUFC 200: Tate vs. Nunes · Jul 9, 2016 · R1 · 3:16
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 Tate: Tate builds (+4% per round through round 5) while Pena fades (-16% per round through round 5). Within fights that reached round 3, Pena lifts to 138% of round-1 output by round 3, Tate 90%.
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 | Julianna Pena | 4.9 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 0.20 | 26% | 12 |
| R1 | Miesha Tate | 5.5 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 0.42 | 28% | 14 |
| R2 | Julianna Pena | 5.4 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 0.23 | 32% | 10 |
| R2 | Miesha Tate | 5.4 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 0.28 | 37% | 13 |
| R3 | Julianna Pena | 5.5 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 0.31 | 44% | 7 |
| R3 | Miesha Tate | 5.0 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 0.38 | 36% | 13 |
| R4 | Julianna Pena | 2.1 | 2.0 | 4.2 | 0.00 | 3% | 2 |
| R4 | Miesha Tate | 5.6 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 0.40 | 16% | 2 |
| R5 | Julianna Pena | 3.1 | 3.1 | 4.6 | 0.00 | 0% | 2 |
| R5 | Miesha Tate | 6.5 | 4.8 | 5.5 | 0.47 | 7% | 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.