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Joaquim Silva

14-6-0
37y·5' 8"·69" reach·Southpaw
0:52
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.74
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
43%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0.9
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 August 2019. Fighters at the same age and mileage lose by KO in 11.3% of fights; after a first KO it runs 17.3%.

Fired again Jun 2023

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The Odometer

Backwards

Crossed into the heaviest third of head strikes eaten for their age in December 2018, 92 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%.

Fired again Jun 2023

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Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 2 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 12 recorded bouts, 449 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 59%Body 29%Legs 13%
Position
Distance 76%Clinch 16%Ground 8%
And how often each lands
Head33%
Body72%
Legs93%
Distance39%
Clinch73%
Ground53%

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
5Losses3 KO · 2 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%
Malegarie
9%
Holbrook
14%
Madadi
0%
Pichel
5%
Gordon
0%
Haqparast
0%
Glenn
2%
Ronson
0%
Tsarukyan
17%
Guida
6%
Klose
7%
Puelles

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
R12.48100%12
R23.46139%10
R34.74191%8

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min3.43
Strikes absorbed / min4.17
Striking accuracyof everything thrown43%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed53%
Takedowns / 15 min0.34
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land50%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed70%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.8
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together7.6
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 12 bouts10.9m

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.

39.0%
Landed at range
878 thrown over 12 bouts
34.3%
Expected
against these opponents
+4.7pp
Gap
above expected
70.0%
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

WClaudio PuellesSep 2025S-DEC1:03 ctrl25 str0 td
Significant strikes
25 of 66 · 38%
Total strikes
95 of 136 · 70%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:03
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 48%Body 36%Legs 16%
Position
Distance 76%Clinch 12%Ground 12%
This fight on UFCStats
LDrakkar KloseMay 2024U-DEC0:55 ctrl59 str0 td
Significant strikes
59 of 93 · 63%
Total strikes
143 of 179 · 80%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:55
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 42%Body 36%Legs 22%
Position
Distance 56%Clinch 37%Ground 7%
This fight on UFCStats
WClay GuidaDec 2023U-DEC2:35 ctrl46 str2 td
Significant strikes
46 of 91 · 51%
Total strikes
85 of 141 · 60%
Takedowns
2 of 3 · 67%
Control
2:35
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 72%Body 20%Legs 9%
Position
Distance 61%Clinch 33%Ground 7%
This fight on UFCStats
LArman TsarukyanJun 2023KO R30:00 ctrl23 str0 td
Significant strikes
23 of 41 · 56%
Total strikes
77 of 96 · 80%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 3:25
Punches to Head From Mount
Target
Head 48%Body 39%Legs 13%
Position
Distance 48%Clinch 43%Ground 9%
This fight on UFCStats
WJesse RonsonOct 2022KO R20:11 ctrl45 str0 td
Significant strikes
45 of 90 · 50%
Total strikes
51 of 96 · 53%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:11
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 3:08
Flying Knee Head
Target
Head 58%Body 27%Legs 16%
Position
Distance 84%Clinch 0%Ground 16%
This fight on UFCStats
LRicky GlennJun 2021KO R10:00 ctrl1 str0 td
Significant strikes
1 of 2 · 50%
Total strikes
1 of 2 · 50%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 0:37
Punches to Head In Clinch
Target
Head 100%Body 0%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LNasrat HaqparastAug 2019KO R20:00 ctrl15 str0 td
Significant strikes
15 of 56 · 27%
Total strikes
15 of 56 · 27%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 0:36
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 0%Body 40%Legs 60%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WJared GordonDec 2018KO R30:38 ctrl95 str1 td
Significant strikes
95 of 191 · 50%
Total strikes
121 of 218 · 56%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
0:38
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 2:39
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 57%Body 32%Legs 12%
Position
Distance 82%Clinch 16%Ground 2%
This fight on UFCStats
LVinc PichelJan 2018U-DEC0:00 ctrl45 str0 td
Significant strikes
45 of 100 · 45%
Total strikes
54 of 109 · 50%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 67%Body 22%Legs 11%
Position
Distance 98%Clinch 2%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WReza MadadiMay 2017S-DEC2:03 ctrl40 str0 td
Significant strikes
40 of 142 · 28%
Total strikes
69 of 186 · 37%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
2:03
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 75%Body 25%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 70%Clinch 10%Ground 20%
This fight on UFCStats
WAndrew HolbrookJul 2016KO R10:03 ctrl6 str0 td
Significant strikes
6 of 8 · 75%
Total strikes
6 of 8 · 75%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:03
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 0:34
Punch to Head On Ground
Target
Head 100%Body 0%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 17%Clinch 0%Ground 83%
This fight on UFCStats
WNazareno MalegarieSep 2015S-DEC0:09 ctrl49 str0 td
Significant strikes
49 of 162 · 30%
Total strikes
49 of 162 · 30%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:09
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 71%Body 27%Legs 2%
Position
Distance 94%Clinch 6%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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