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Chris Padilla

Taco
17-6-1
30y·5' 9"·74" reach·Orthodox
2:29
Control / 15m
time on top
+1.31
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
75%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0.2
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 6 recorded bouts, 455 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 50%Body 17%Legs 33%
Position
Distance 84%Clinch 11%Ground 6%
And how often each lands
Head45%
Body69%
Legs68%
Distance51%
Clinch81%
Ground77%

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.

29%
Llontop
0%
Rongzhu
25%
Herbert
35%
Bonfim
14%
Mederos
5%
Haqparast

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
R14.73100%6
R28.52180%5
R37.53159%3

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min6.19
Strikes absorbed / min4.88
Striking accuracyof everything thrown54%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed49%
Takedowns / 15 min1.13
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land28%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed80%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.3
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together11.07
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 6 bouts11.4m

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.

50.6%
Landed at range
540 thrown over 5 bouts
43.7%
Expected
against these opponents
+6.9pp
Gap
above expected
81.6%
Coverage
from real records
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

WNasrat HaqparastAug 2026SUB R30:45 ctrl125 str1 td
Significant strikes
125 of 227 · 55%
Total strikes
125 of 227 · 55%
Takedowns
1 of 3 · 33%
Control
0:45
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R3 4:59
Arm Triangle Standing
Target
Head 50%Body 17%Legs 33%
Position
Distance 86%Clinch 6%Ground 8%
This fight on UFCStats
DMarQuel MederosApr 2026M-DEC2:09 ctrl147 str1 td
Significant strikes
147 of 271 · 54%
Total strikes
164 of 291 · 56%
Takedowns
1 of 4 · 25%
Control
2:09
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Majority decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 48%Body 20%Legs 31%
Position
Distance 84%Clinch 15%Ground 1%
This fight on UFCStats
WIsmael BonfimNov 2025KO R23:21 ctrl64 str0 td
Significant strikes
64 of 109 · 59%
Total strikes
88 of 134 · 66%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
3:21
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 4:30
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 52%Body 16%Legs 33%
Position
Distance 67%Clinch 9%Ground 23%
This fight on UFCStats
WJai HerbertMar 2025S-DEC3:41 ctrl39 str0 td
Significant strikes
39 of 98 · 40%
Total strikes
88 of 147 · 60%
Takedowns
0 of 6 · 0%
Control
3:41
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 51%Body 15%Legs 33%
Position
Distance 90%Clinch 10%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WRongzhuSep 2024DOC R20:00 ctrl68 str0 td
Significant strikes
68 of 105 · 65%
Total strikes
73 of 110 · 66%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Doctor's stoppage, R2 4:14
Eye injury to Rongzhu
Target
Head 53%Body 12%Legs 35%
Position
Distance 91%Clinch 9%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WJames LlontopApr 2024SUB R11:20 ctrl12 str3 td
Significant strikes
12 of 26 · 46%
Total strikes
14 of 29 · 48%
Takedowns
3 of 3 · 100%
Control
1:20
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 4:33
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 50%Body 8%Legs 42%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 17%Ground 8%
This fight on UFCStats

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