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Taila Santos

19-3-0
33y·5' 6"·68" reach·Orthodox
5:58
Control / 15m
time on top
+0.75
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
20%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
1
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 August 2023, 113 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 7 recorded bouts, 315 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 53%Body 21%Legs 26%
Position
Distance 68%Clinch 14%Ground 18%
And how often each lands
Head34%
Body60%
Legs88%
Distance39%
Clinch75%
Ground71%

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.

5Wins1 SUB · 4 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.

18%
Borella
53%
McCann
85%
Robertson
54%
Modafferi
27%
Wood
35%
Shevchenko
1%
Blanchfield

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
R13.13100%7
R21.9763%6
R33.60115%6
R45.601
R52.201

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min3.39
Strikes absorbed / min2.64
Striking accuracyof everything thrown48%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed58%
Takedowns / 15 min2
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land76%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed86%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.1
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together6.03
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 7 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.

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

LErin BlanchfieldAug 2023U-DEC0:09 ctrl55 str0 td
Significant strikes
55 of 151 · 36%
Total strikes
96 of 202 · 48%
Takedowns
0 of 3 · 0%
Control
0:09
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 51%Body 16%Legs 33%
Position
Distance 84%Clinch 16%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LValentina ShevchenkoJun 2022S-DEC8:49 ctrl55 str3 td
Significant strikes
55 of 102 · 54%
Total strikes
128 of 180 · 71%
Takedowns
3 of 3 · 100%
Control
8:49
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
3
Reversals
2
Ended
Split decision, 5 rounds
Target
Head 33%Body 20%Legs 47%
Position
Distance 82%Clinch 7%Ground 11%
This fight on UFCStats
WJoanne WoodNov 2021SUB R11:17 ctrl30 str0 td
Significant strikes
30 of 60 · 50%
Total strikes
36 of 67 · 54%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:17
Knockdowns
2
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 4:49
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 70%Body 10%Legs 20%
Position
Distance 63%Clinch 0%Ground 37%
This fight on UFCStats
WRoxanne ModafferiSep 2021U-DEC8:03 ctrl55 str5 td
Significant strikes
55 of 95 · 58%
Total strikes
118 of 164 · 72%
Takedowns
5 of 5 · 100%
Control
8:03
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 69%Body 15%Legs 16%
Position
Distance 73%Clinch 15%Ground 13%
This fight on UFCStats
WGillian RobertsonDec 2020U-DEC12:47 ctrl27 str1 td
Significant strikes
27 of 37 · 73%
Total strikes
72 of 85 · 85%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
12:47
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 78%Body 11%Legs 11%
Position
Distance 15%Clinch 4%Ground 81%
This fight on UFCStats
WMolly McCannJul 2020U-DEC7:53 ctrl57 str5 td
Significant strikes
57 of 143 · 40%
Total strikes
75 of 164 · 46%
Takedowns
5 of 7 · 71%
Control
7:53
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 42%Body 37%Legs 21%
Position
Distance 60%Clinch 21%Ground 19%
This fight on UFCStats
LMara Romero BorellaFeb 2019S-DEC2:46 ctrl36 str1 td
Significant strikes
36 of 100 · 36%
Total strikes
57 of 123 · 46%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
2:46
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 47%Body 28%Legs 25%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 25%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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