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Events · UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie · Erin Blanchfield vs Taila Santos
From the tape · 26 Aug 2023

Erin Blanchfield vs Taila Santos

UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie · Kallang, Singapore
Result

Erin Blanchfield beat Taila Santos

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's FlyweightMain cardReferee · Thomas Fan

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner ErinBlanchfield“Cold Blooded”Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu · Elmwood Park, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
TS
Blue corner TailaSantosTeam Taila Santos · Jaragua do Sul, Santa Catarina
Women's Flyweight3 rounds26 Aug 2023
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
14-2
Record
19-3
−6 yr24
Age
30
5' 4"
Height
+2″5' 6"
66″
Reach
+2″68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
+16
+35%3/560% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
Team Taila Santos
Elmwood Park, New Jersey
From
Jaragua do Sul, Santa Catarina
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Erin Blanchfield26 sig landed
HEAD62%16 of 45BODY27%7 of 7LEGS12%3 of 3
Taila Santos25 sig landed
HEAD52%13 of 56BODY20%5 of 8LEGS28%7 of 7
26 of 55
Sig.
strikes
25 of 71
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:22
Control
0:06
Distance 20Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Blanchfield firstHowie Booth9–10Ben Cartlidge9–10Luke Hill9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Erin Blanchfield9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 9BODY44%4 of 7LEGS22%2 of 2
Taila Santos11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 16BODY18%2 of 4LEGS36%4 of 4
9 of 18
Sig.
strikes
11 of 24
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
4:01
Control
0:03
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Blanchfield firstHowie Booth10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9Luke Hill10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Erin Blanchfield26 sig landed
HEAD69%18 of 45BODY27%7 of 9LEGS4%1 of 1
Taila Santos19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 46BODY11%2 of 3LEGS37%7 of 7
26 of 55
Sig.
strikes
19 of 56
0 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 2
2:45
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Blanchfield firstHowie Booth10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9Luke Hill10–9

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Thomas Fan
Erin BlanchfieldTaila Santos
Official totals — Erin Blanchfield first
JudgeTotal
Howie Booth1.8 avg spread · 33% wide29–28
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Luke Hill29–28

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 15 scored, Erin Blanchfield first · unofficial

Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
J. L. Kirven Sherdog.com29–28
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28
Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
Ben Davis29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Nick Baldwin theScore29–28
Dan Urban Couchside Judges29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
E. Casey Leydon29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Blanchfield · 78%29-28 Santos · 16%30-27 Blanchfield · 2%30-27 Santos · 2%

112 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Erin Blanchfield

1.96takedowns / 15 min
1.96 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.00 / 15m
5.76 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.63 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
76%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Taila Santos

2.00takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (3.58 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Flyweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Erin Blanchfield↑ +2.5pp
open 56.3%close 58.8%
Taila Santos↓ −2.5pp
open 43.7%close 41.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Erin Blanchfield opened at 56.3% and closed at 58.8% (+2.5pp), with Taila Santos moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Erin Blanchfield-142-16056.3%58.8%+2.5pp
Taila Santos12013243.7%41.2%−2.5pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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