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Dricus Du Plessis vs Caio BorralhoFantasy matchup — not a booked fight

#2 at Middleweight · #5 at Middleweight
Not a booked fightFANTASY MATCHUP — this fight is not booked. What our two blind models would say if it were.
Dricus Du Plessis
UFC 10-1 · Pro 24-3
#2 at Middleweight
VS
Caio Borralho
UFC 8-1 · Pro 18-2
#5 at Middleweight

If they fought

A statistical read on a fight that does not exist — no market, no booking, nothing to grade it against.

Dricus Du Plessis 68% Caio Borralho 32%

Run as an unbooked fight, the numbers favour Dricus Du Plessis at 68% — a clear lean.

Our two reads agree, and closely. Both land on Dricus Du Plessis — 68% on the first, 61% on the second, 7 points apart.

The same read puts the chance it goes the full distance at 48%.

KO/TKO
31%
Submission
10%
Decision
59%
These figures come from the same statistical reads we run on real cards, with the betting market removed — there is no market on a fight nobody has booked. Nothing here is timestamped against a result, nothing here is graded, and none of it counts towards our public record. It is a thought experiment with real numbers behind it.

Tale of the tape

Dricus Du Plessis vs Caio Borralho — the facts, side by side. ▲ marks the reach edge.

UFC 10-1UFC recordUFC 8-1
24-3Pro record18-2
StillknocksNicknameThe Natural
6' 1"Height6' 1"
76"▲Reach75"
SwitchStanceSouthpaw
32Age33
185 lbs.Weight185 lbs.
South AfricaNationalityBrazil
Pretoria, GautengHometownSao Luis, Maranhao
Team CITFighting out ofThe Fighting Nerds
Vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves.

Stat-by-stat

Dricus Du Plessis (left) vs Caio Borralho (right) — career striking & grappling rates. The fighter ahead on each row is highlighted in their corner colour.

Strikes landed / min
5.21
vs
3.47
Striking accuracy
48%
vs
56%
Strikes absorbed / min
4.24
vs
2.61
Striking defence
54%
vs
60%
Takedowns / 15 min
1.9
vs
1.25
Takedown accuracy
48%
vs
50%
Takedown defence
50%
vs
76%
Sub attempts / 15 min
0.6
vs
0.4
Career averages from public UFC statistics. On “strikes absorbed / min”, fewer is better.

Fights that have happened between them

None.

Dricus Du Plessis and Caio Borralho have never met in the UFC.

Every matchup on this page is a pairing that has never happened. That is how they are chosen: if these two had already met in the Octagon, there would be a real result to read instead, and this page would not exist.

The real fighters

Everything above is hypothetical. These are not.

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