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Khalil Rountree Jr. vs Navajo StirlingFantasy matchup — not a booked fight

#4 at Light Heavyweight · #5 at Light Heavyweight
Not a booked fightFANTASY MATCHUP — this fight is not booked. What our two blind models would say if it were.
UFC 10-7 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 15-7
#4 at Light Heavyweight
VS
UFC 6-0 · Pro 11-0
#5 at Light Heavyweight

If they fought

A statistical read on a fight that does not exist — no market, no booking, nothing to grade it against.

Khalil Rountree Jr. 17% Navajo Stirling 83%

Run as an unbooked fight, the numbers favour Navajo Stirling at 83% — the widest kind of gap these reads produce.

Our two reads agree, and closely. Both land on Navajo Stirling — 83% on the first, 80% on the second, 3 points apart.

The same read puts the chance it goes the full distance at 46%.

KO/TKO
50%
Submission
9%
Decision
41%
These figures come from the same statistical reads we run on real cards, with the betting market removed — there is no market on a fight nobody has booked. Nothing here is timestamped against a result, nothing here is graded, and none of it counts towards our public record. It is a thought experiment with real numbers behind it.

Tale of the tape

Khalil Rountree Jr. vs Navajo Stirling — the facts, side by side. ▲ marks the reach edge.

UFC 10-7 (1 draw/NC)UFC recordUFC 6-0
15-7Pro record11-0
6' 1"Height6' 4"
76"Reach▲79"
SouthpawStanceOrthodox
36Age28
205 lbs.Weight205 lbs.
—NationalityNew Zealand
—Born inUpper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
—Fights out ofAuckland, New Zealand
—CampCity Kickboxing
Vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves.

Stat-by-stat

Khalil Rountree Jr. (left) vs Navajo Stirling (right) — career striking & grappling rates. The fighter ahead on each row is highlighted in their corner colour.

Strikes landed / min
3.88
vs
6.47
Striking accuracy
40%
vs
55%
Strikes absorbed / min
4.33
vs
2.56
Striking defence
49%
vs
58%
Takedowns / 15 min
0
vs
0.82
Takedown accuracy
0%
vs
25%
Takedown defence
58%
vs
71%
Sub attempts / 15 min
0.1
vs
0
Career averages from public UFC statistics. On “strikes absorbed / min”, fewer is better.

Fights that have happened between them

None.

Khalil Rountree Jr. and Navajo Stirling have never met in the UFC.

Every matchup on this page is a pairing that has never happened. That is how they are chosen: if these two had already met in the Octagon, there would be a real result to read instead, and this page would not exist.

The real fighters

Everything above is hypothetical. These are not.

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