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Events · UFC Fight Night: Allen vs Costa · Dooho Choi vs Daniel Santos
Red corner DoohoChoi“The Korean Superboy”
VSSettled
Blue corner DanielSantos“Willycat”Chute Boxe Diego Lima · Uberaba, Minas Gerais
Featherweight3 rounds16 May 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Choi’s 5 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
17-4-1
Record
14-3
35
Age
−4 yr31
+3″5' 10"
Height
5' 7"
+3″70″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+49
UFC bouts
5
+50%5/5100% of wins
Finishes
2/450% of wins
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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Daniel Santos
61.5% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 49%
Vs the market−0.0pp
Market had our pick at62%
The fight
Dooho Choi
LOSS
How it endedKO/TKO
Round2 of 3
Clock4:29
Missed We called Daniel Santos at 61.5%Dooho Choi won. The method call missed as well.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

Round by round

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

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Dooho Choi28 sig landed
HEAD71%20 of 51BODY21%6 of 6LEGS7%2 of 2
Daniel Santos47 sig landed
HEAD74%35 of 89BODY26%12 of 16LEGS0%0 of 1
28 of 59
Sig.
strikes
47 of 106
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:01
Control
0:12
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 26Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 40Clinch 7Ground 0
Round 24:29 of action⚡ 1 KD ChoiEnded 4:29
Dooho Choi44 sig landed
HEAD82%36 of 71BODY16%7 of 7LEGS2%1 of 1
Daniel Santos25 sig landed
HEAD76%19 of 67BODY12%3 of 6LEGS12%3 of 3
44 of 79
Sig.
strikes
25 of 76
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:10
Control
0:42
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 41Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Dooho Choi

Round
2
Clock
4:29
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Kerry Hatley.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Dooho Choi

1.26takedowns / 15 min
1.26 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.60 / 15m
2.38 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.88 / 15m
53%
ACCURACY
33%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Daniel Santos

2.60takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Dooho ChoiDaniel SantosPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Dooho Choi vs Daniel Santos — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Dooho Choi and Daniel Santos from May 02 to May 16, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Dooho Choi moves from 64% to 40% and Daniel Santos from 36% to 60%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.20%30%40%50%60%70%80%May 2May 6May 9May 13May 16▲ our call: Daniel Santos (MED)40%60%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Daniel Santos's implied chance moved up from 36% to 60% (+24.0pp). Our pick was frozen at the model cutoff, before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

Our published call had Daniel Santos at 61.5%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 60.5% — our number sat 1.0pp above the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Dooho Choi — sportsbook consensus45.7%38.7%48.3%39.6%−6.1pp
Daniel Santos — sportsbook consensus54.3%51.7%61.3%60.4%+6.1pp
Dooho Choi — Polymarket63.5%37.5%72.0%39.5%−24.0pp
Daniel Santos — Polymarket36.5%28.0%62.5%60.5%+24.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 3,604 snapshots on file · window May 02 18:46May 16 23:57Z · last capture May 16, 23:57Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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