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Mairon Santos

The Legend
18-1-0
26y·5' 7"·72" reach·Orthodox
0:54
Control / 15m
time on top
+1.09
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
50%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
1.3
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 December 2025, 51 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, 156 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 49%Body 26%Legs 24%
Position
Distance 88%Clinch 9%Ground 3%
And how often each lands
Head36%
Body59%
Legs88%
Distance46%
Clinch82%
Ground67%

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%
Ofli
0%
Marshall
13%
Yusuff
8%
Naimov

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
R12.65100%4
R23.82144%4
R33.85145%3

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min3.33
Strikes absorbed / min2.24
Striking accuracyof everything thrown48%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed65%
Takedowns / 15 min0
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land0%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed69%
Sub attempts / 15 min0
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together5.57
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 4 bouts11.7m

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.

45.8%
Landed at range
301 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

WMuhammad NaimovDec 2025KO R30:47 ctrl27 str0 td
Significant strikes
27 of 45 · 60%
Total strikes
43 of 61 · 70%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:47
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 0:21
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 41%Body 30%Legs 30%
Position
Distance 70%Clinch 26%Ground 4%
This fight on UFCStats
WSodiq YusuffMay 2025U-DEC1:57 ctrl40 str0 td
Significant strikes
40 of 83 · 48%
Total strikes
71 of 114 · 62%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:57
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 55%Body 25%Legs 20%
Position
Distance 88%Clinch 13%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WFrancis MarshallMar 2025S-DEC0:02 ctrl58 str0 td
Significant strikes
58 of 129 · 45%
Total strikes
78 of 154 · 51%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:02
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 50%Body 24%Legs 26%
Position
Distance 98%Clinch 2%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WKaan OfliAug 2024KO R20:02 ctrl31 str0 td
Significant strikes
31 of 67 · 46%
Total strikes
32 of 68 · 47%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:02
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 1:30
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 48%Body 29%Legs 23%
Position
Distance 87%Clinch 3%Ground 10%
This fight on UFCStats

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