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Melissa Gatto

9-3-2
30y·5' 5"·69" reach·Orthodox
4:30
Control / 15m
time on top
+0.80
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
100%
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.

The Odometer

Backwards

Crossed into the heaviest third of head strikes eaten for their age in May 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%.

Read the research

Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 6 recorded bouts, 265 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 54%Body 29%Legs 17%
Position
Distance 85%Clinch 10%Ground 5%
And how often each lands
Head40%
Body67%
Legs73%
Distance47%
Clinch60%
Ground93%

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.

3Wins3 KO
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.

18%
Leonardo
29%
Eubanks
22%
Cortez
20%
Silva
66%
Vidal
32%
Barbosa

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
R12.57100%6
R24.67182%6
R32.93114%5

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min3.47
Strikes absorbed / min2.67
Striking accuracyof everything thrown49%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed54%
Takedowns / 15 min1.77
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land27%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed58%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.4
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together6.14
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 6 bouts12.7m

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.

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

LDione BarbosaApr 2026M-DEC4:48 ctrl33 str3 td
Significant strikes
33 of 67 · 49%
Total strikes
64 of 109 · 59%
Takedowns
3 of 12 · 25%
Control
4:48
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
Majority decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 42%Body 27%Legs 30%
Position
Distance 91%Clinch 6%Ground 3%
This fight on UFCStats
WTamires VidalMay 2024KO R36:58 ctrl30 str2 td
Significant strikes
30 of 52 · 58%
Total strikes
120 of 163 · 74%
Takedowns
2 of 2 · 100%
Control
6:58
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 0:37
Punch to Body At Distance
Target
Head 43%Body 53%Legs 3%
Position
Distance 73%Clinch 3%Ground 23%
This fight on UFCStats
LAriane da SilvaJul 2023S-DEC2:57 ctrl85 str0 td
Significant strikes
85 of 186 · 46%
Total strikes
100 of 201 · 50%
Takedowns
0 of 7 · 0%
Control
2:57
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 46%Body 40%Legs 14%
Position
Distance 82%Clinch 18%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LTracy CortezMay 2022U-DEC3:17 ctrl30 str3 td
Significant strikes
30 of 73 · 41%
Total strikes
49 of 95 · 52%
Takedowns
3 of 6 · 50%
Control
3:17
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 83%Body 10%Legs 7%
Position
Distance 90%Clinch 0%Ground 10%
This fight on UFCStats
WSijara EubanksDec 2021KO R33:04 ctrl17 str0 td
Significant strikes
17 of 34 · 50%
Total strikes
64 of 91 · 70%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
3:04
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 0:45
Kick to Body At Distance
Target
Head 65%Body 12%Legs 24%
Position
Distance 76%Clinch 12%Ground 12%
This fight on UFCStats
WVictoria LeonardoAug 2021DOC R21:50 ctrl70 str1 td
Significant strikes
70 of 121 · 58%
Total strikes
96 of 148 · 65%
Takedowns
1 of 5 · 20%
Control
1:50
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
Doctor's stoppage, R2 5:00
Arm Injury
Target
Head 60%Body 17%Legs 23%
Position
Distance 90%Clinch 9%Ground 1%
This fight on UFCStats

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