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Natalia Silva vs Erin BlanchfieldFantasy matchup — not a booked fight

#1 at Women's Flyweight · #4 at Women's Flyweight
Not a booked fightFANTASY MATCHUP — this fight is not booked. What our two blind models would say if it were.
UFC 8-0 · Pro 20-5-1
#1 at Women's Flyweight
VS
UFC 8-1 · Pro 14-2
#4 at Women's Flyweight

If they fought

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

Natalia Silva 65% Erin Blanchfield 35%

Run as an unbooked fight, the numbers favour Natalia Silva at 65% — a clear lean.

Our two reads agree on the winner but not on the margin. Both name Natalia Silva — 65% on the first, 54% on the second, a gap of 11 points. The wider that gap, the less settled the read.

The same read puts the chance it goes the full distance at 61%.

KO/TKO
15%
Submission
11%
Decision
74%
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

Natalia Silva vs Erin Blanchfield — the facts, side by side. ▲ marks the reach edge.

UFC 8-0UFC recordUFC 8-1
20-5-1Pro record14-2
NicknameCold Blooded
5' 4"Height5' 4"
65"Reach66"
SouthpawStanceOrthodox
29Age27
125 lbs.Weight125 lbs.
BrazilNationalityUnited States
Timoteo, Minas GeraisHometownElmwood Park, New Jersey
Team BorrachaFighting out ofRenzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
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

Natalia Silva (left) vs Erin Blanchfield (right) — career striking & grappling rates. The fighter ahead on each row is highlighted in their corner colour.

Strikes landed / min
4.81
vs
5.24
Striking accuracy
45%
vs
44%
Strikes absorbed / min
2.36
vs
4.25
Striking defence
66%
vs
58%
Takedowns / 15 min
0.43
vs
1.96
Takedown accuracy
30%
vs
34%
Takedown defence
90%
vs
78%
Sub attempts / 15 min
0
vs
0.9
Career averages from public UFC statistics. On “strikes absorbed / min”, fewer is better.

Fights that have happened between them

None.

Natalia Silva and Erin Blanchfield 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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