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Denise Gomes

Dee
12-3-0
26y·5' 2"·63" reach·Orthodox
4:19
Control / 15m
time on top
+1.27
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
43%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
1.1
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 April 2023, 31 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 9 recorded bouts, 374 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 49%Body 30%Legs 20%
Position
Distance 62%Clinch 24%Ground 14%
And how often each lands
Head39%
Body71%
Legs72%
Distance42%
Clinch75%
Ground69%

How fights end

UFC bouts only, so these will not add up to the record above. Counts rather than rates: two knockouts in three wins is not a 67% finisher.

7Wins3 KO · 4 DEC
2Losses2 DEC

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.

37%
Lookboonmee
50%
Brasil
50%
Jauregui
7%
Hill
16%
Moura
39%
Kowalkiewicz
77%
Reed
26%
Pennington
0%
Xiaonan

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
R13.86100%9
R25.21135%7
R32.8875%5

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min4.43
Strikes absorbed / min3.16
Striking accuracyof everything thrown49%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed51%
Takedowns / 15 min1.45
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land34%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed66%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.7
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together7.59
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 9 bouts10.4m

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.

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

WYan XiaonanAug 2026KO R10:00 ctrl18 str0 td
Significant strikes
18 of 48 · 38%
Total strikes
20 of 50 · 40%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:49
Elbow to Head At Distance
Target
Head 67%Body 17%Legs 17%
Position
Distance 89%Clinch 0%Ground 11%
This fight on UFCStats
WTecia PenningtonNov 2025U-DEC3:51 ctrl53 str3 td
Significant strikes
53 of 138 · 38%
Total strikes
75 of 169 · 44%
Takedowns
3 of 10 · 30%
Control
3:51
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 36%Body 28%Legs 36%
Position
Distance 91%Clinch 4%Ground 6%
This fight on UFCStats
WElise ReedMay 2025KO R24:14 ctrl28 str3 td
Significant strikes
28 of 42 · 67%
Total strikes
69 of 86 · 80%
Takedowns
3 of 3 · 100%
Control
4:14
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 0:30
Punches to Head In Clinch
Target
Head 64%Body 18%Legs 18%
Position
Distance 39%Clinch 32%Ground 29%
This fight on UFCStats
WKarolina KowalkiewiczNov 2024U-DEC5:47 ctrl73 str0 td
Significant strikes
73 of 144 · 51%
Total strikes
91 of 166 · 55%
Takedowns
0 of 3 · 0%
Control
5:47
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 41%Body 45%Legs 14%
Position
Distance 73%Clinch 27%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WEduarda MouraJun 2024S-DEC2:20 ctrl50 str0 td
Significant strikes
50 of 88 · 57%
Total strikes
137 of 184 · 74%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
2:20
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
2
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 38%Body 44%Legs 18%
Position
Distance 62%Clinch 34%Ground 4%
This fight on UFCStats
LAngela HillNov 2023U-DEC1:03 ctrl62 str1 td
Significant strikes
62 of 133 · 47%
Total strikes
111 of 203 · 55%
Takedowns
1 of 3 · 33%
Control
1:03
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 47%Body 40%Legs 13%
Position
Distance 55%Clinch 44%Ground 2%
This fight on UFCStats
WYazmin JaureguiJul 2023KO R10:10 ctrl17 str0 td
Significant strikes
17 of 20 · 85%
Total strikes
21 of 24 · 88%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:10
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 0:20
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 100%Body 0%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 24%Clinch 0%Ground 76%
This fight on UFCStats
WBruna BrasilApr 2023KO R23:53 ctrl54 str3 td
Significant strikes
54 of 93 · 58%
Total strikes
94 of 133 · 71%
Takedowns
3 of 3 · 100%
Control
3:53
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 2:42
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 52%Body 15%Legs 33%
Position
Distance 39%Clinch 19%Ground 43%
This fight on UFCStats
LLoma LookboonmeeSep 2022U-DEC5:31 ctrl19 str0 td
Significant strikes
19 of 34 · 56%
Total strikes
45 of 66 · 68%
Takedowns
0 of 6 · 0%
Control
5:31
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
3
Reversals
2
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 68%Body 11%Legs 21%
Position
Distance 68%Clinch 32%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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