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Felipe dos Santos

8-3-0 (1 NC)
26y·5' 7"·70" reach·Orthodox
0:39
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.05
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
0%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0
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 February 2024, 77 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%.

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Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 4 recorded bouts, 225 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 53%Body 26%Legs 21%
Position
Distance 83%Clinch 8%Ground 9%
And how often each lands
Head30%
Body51%
Legs76%
Distance36%
Clinch60%
Ground68%

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.

1Wins1 DEC
3Losses3 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.

1%
Kape
6%
Altamirano
5%
Lima
6%
Kavanagh

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
R13.90100%4
R24.10105%4
R33.2583%4

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min3.75
Strikes absorbed / min3.8
Striking accuracyof everything thrown39%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed41%
Takedowns / 15 min0
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land0%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed20%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.5
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together7.55
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 4 bouts15.0m

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.

36.5%
Landed at range
510 thrown over 4 bouts
Expected
against these opponents
Gap
below the cutoffs
Coverage
from real records

It takes 5 bouts before this comparison says anything. There are 4 here, so it's only showing what they actually landed.

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

LLone'er KavanaghMar 2025U-DEC0:56 ctrl51 str0 td
Significant strikes
51 of 104 · 49%
Total strikes
92 of 147 · 63%
Takedowns
0 of 3 · 0%
Control
0:56
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 55%Body 18%Legs 27%
Position
Distance 55%Clinch 8%Ground 37%
This fight on UFCStats
LAndre LimaSep 2024U-DEC0:41 ctrl38 str0 td
Significant strikes
38 of 76 · 50%
Total strikes
69 of 122 · 57%
Takedowns
0 of 8 · 0%
Control
0:41
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 37%Body 37%Legs 26%
Position
Distance 87%Clinch 13%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WVictor AltamiranoFeb 2024S-DEC0:51 ctrl37 str0 td
Significant strikes
37 of 87 · 43%
Total strikes
62 of 120 · 52%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:51
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 65%Body 22%Legs 14%
Position
Distance 84%Clinch 14%Ground 3%
This fight on UFCStats
LManel KapeSep 2023U-DEC0:08 ctrl99 str0 td
Significant strikes
99 of 304 · 33%
Total strikes
101 of 310 · 33%
Takedowns
0 of 5 · 0%
Control
0:08
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 54%Body 28%Legs 18%
Position
Distance 95%Clinch 4%Ground 1%
This fight on UFCStats

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