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Gabriel Santos

12-2-0
29y·5' 9"·70" reach·Orthodox
5:23
Control / 15m
time on top
+0.04
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
50%
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.

Chin Decay

Predictive

First KO loss June 2023. Fighters at the same age and mileage lose by KO in 11.3% of fights; after a first KO it runs 17.3%.

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The Odometer

Backwards

Crossed into the heaviest third of head strikes eaten for their age in June 2023, 59 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. 2 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 4 recorded bouts, 223 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 56%Body 25%Legs 19%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 10%Ground 15%
And how often each lands
Head52%
Body75%
Legs82%
Distance55%
Clinch96%
Ground85%

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.

2Wins1 SUB · 1 DEC
2Losses1 KO · 1 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.

27%
Murphy
16%
Onama
44%
Yizha
52%
Jenkins

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
R15.80100%4
R23.6563%4
R33.0653%3

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min4.35
Strikes absorbed / min4.31
Striking accuracyof everything thrown60%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed45%
Takedowns / 15 min3.8
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land54%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed87%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.2
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together8.66
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 4 bouts12.8m

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.

54.8%
Landed at range
305 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

WJack JenkinsFeb 2025SUB R36:19 ctrl39 str4 td
Significant strikes
39 of 61 · 64%
Total strikes
96 of 123 · 78%
Takedowns
4 of 7 · 57%
Control
6:19
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R3 2:06
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 67%Body 15%Legs 18%
Position
Distance 59%Clinch 8%Ground 33%
This fight on UFCStats
WYizhaSep 2024U-DEC6:35 ctrl76 str2 td
Significant strikes
76 of 112 · 68%
Total strikes
110 of 150 · 73%
Takedowns
2 of 2 · 100%
Control
6:35
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 59%Body 22%Legs 18%
Position
Distance 70%Clinch 7%Ground 24%
This fight on UFCStats
LDavid OnamaJun 2023KO R21:31 ctrl39 str2 td
Significant strikes
39 of 73 · 53%
Total strikes
56 of 90 · 62%
Takedowns
2 of 4 · 50%
Control
1:31
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 4:13
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 56%Body 23%Legs 21%
Position
Distance 92%Clinch 3%Ground 5%
This fight on UFCStats
LLerone MurphyMar 2023S-DEC4:00 ctrl69 str5 td
Significant strikes
69 of 122 · 57%
Total strikes
87 of 141 · 62%
Takedowns
5 of 11 · 45%
Control
4:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 46%Body 35%Legs 19%
Position
Distance 80%Clinch 20%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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