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Natalia Silva

20-5-1
29y·5' 4"·65" reach·Southpaw
0:52
Control / 15m
time on top
+2.45
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
25%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0.4
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

Tells

Non-traditional predictors we've tested against the record. Only the ones that fire on this fighter show up here.

The Odometer

Backwards

Crossed into the heaviest third of head strikes eaten for their age in September 2024, 58 head strikes before that night. Never-yet-stopped fighters carrying that kind of mileage took a first KO in 11.0% of fights; the lightest third ran 15.6%.

Read the research

Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 8 recorded bouts, 502 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 58%Body 21%Legs 21%
Position
Distance 94%Clinch 3%Ground 3%
And how often each lands
Head35%
Body65%
Legs88%
Distance44%
Clinch81%
Ground68%

Control, bout by bout

Seconds spent controlling the opponent in each fight, oldest on the left. UFCStats records this per bout and never adds it up; this is what that looks like added up.

7%
Jasudavicius
19%
Bleda
9%
Leonardo
0%
Lee
0%
Araujo
5%
Andrade
2%
Grasso
9%
Namajunas

As the fight goes on

Which measure to show

Significant strikes landed, per minute fought. Every round is measured against round one, except rounds reached by fewer than 3 bouts, which are dimmed and left uncompared.

Landed / minvs R1Bouts
R13.97100%8
R24.71119%7
R35.90149%7

Only fights that reached a round count towards it, so later rounds are a smaller sample.

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min4.81
Strikes absorbed / min2.36
Striking accuracyof everything thrown45%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed66%
Takedowns / 15 min0.43
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land30%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed90%
Sub attempts / 15 min0
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together7.17
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 8 bouts13.1m

Earned Accuracy

How hard the opponents on this record were to hit at distance, and whether they beat it. Distance strikes only, so nobody gets credit for accuracy they picked up hammering someone already flat on the floor.

Women's divisions sit this one out for now. The baseline leans on how far striking has drifted era to era, and there isn't enough sample in the women's divisions to measure that drift. Building a baseline anyway would claim a precision we haven't earned.

The fine print

Distance strikes only

Nothing thrown in the clinch or on the ground counts. Those land at about 72% and 71%, against 44% at distance, so a blended accuracy mostly measures where a fight happened. Rank the sport that way and its best strikers are all wrestlers.

One pass, not a rating

How much each opponent lets through is taken raw. It isn't adjusted for who they fought, so a fighter whose opponents all had soft schedules comes out looking better here than they are. Running it to convergence is a later job.

Coverage, and who gets ranked

Coverage is how much of the expected number came from the opponents' own records instead of the division average. Under 65% it's mostly the division talking, so the comparison gets hidden. Same for anyone under 5 qualifying bouts, or under 300 distance strikes of their own, which is where an accuracy still moves on a single exchange. Miss any of the three and you'll see what they landed, nothing else, and they stay out of any ranking.

Short records get pulled to the middle

An opponent who hasn't been shot at much gets dragged toward their division's average, and the drag fades as their record fills in. At 60 distance strikes faced, their own record and the division average count for the same.

Bout log

WRose NamajunasJan 2026U-DEC1:24 ctrl51 str1 td
Significant strikes
51 of 133 · 38%
Total strikes
63 of 147 · 43%
Takedowns
1 of 2 · 50%
Control
1:24
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 49%Body 16%Legs 35%
Position
Distance 98%Clinch 2%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WAlexa GrassoMay 2025U-DEC0:15 ctrl65 str0 td
Significant strikes
65 of 164 · 40%
Total strikes
74 of 173 · 43%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:15
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 65%Body 14%Legs 22%
Position
Distance 98%Clinch 2%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WJessica AndradeSep 2024U-DEC0:49 ctrl117 str0 td
Significant strikes
117 of 208 · 56%
Total strikes
119 of 211 · 56%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:49
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 57%Body 32%Legs 10%
Position
Distance 91%Clinch 8%Ground 2%
This fight on UFCStats
WViviane AraujoFeb 2024U-DEC0:00 ctrl38 str0 td
Significant strikes
38 of 128 · 30%
Total strikes
65 of 157 · 41%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 63%Body 21%Legs 16%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WAndrea LeeAug 2023U-DEC0:00 ctrl70 str0 td
Significant strikes
70 of 174 · 40%
Total strikes
70 of 174 · 40%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 49%Body 24%Legs 27%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WVictoria LeonardoMay 2023KO R10:16 ctrl20 str0 td
Significant strikes
20 of 45 · 44%
Total strikes
21 of 46 · 46%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:16
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:58
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 80%Body 10%Legs 10%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WTereza BledaNov 2022KO R32:13 ctrl45 str0 td
Significant strikes
45 of 72 · 63%
Total strikes
62 of 89 · 70%
Takedowns
0 of 3 · 0%
Control
2:13
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 1:27
Spinning Back Kick Head
Target
Head 58%Body 16%Legs 27%
Position
Distance 91%Clinch 2%Ground 7%
This fight on UFCStats
WJasmine JasudaviciusJun 2022U-DEC1:07 ctrl96 str2 td
Significant strikes
96 of 185 · 52%
Total strikes
120 of 213 · 56%
Takedowns
2 of 3 · 67%
Control
1:07
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 57%Body 19%Legs 24%
Position
Distance 89%Clinch 1%Ground 10%
This fight on UFCStats

Numbers from UFCStats. Control time and strike placement are summed from each bout, everything else is as published.