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Daniel Santos
14-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Daniel Santos’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder

Pro record14-3
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W W W W
DivisionFeatherweight
Age31
Height5' 7"
StanceOrthodox

5' 7" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Featherweight. 4 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 2 decision. Top 12% of Featherweights: lands 5.15 significant strikes a minute.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.

NicknameWillycat
NationalityBrazil
HometownUberaba, Minas Gerais
Fighting out ofChute Boxe Diego Lima
Height5' 7"
Reach67.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age31
Date of birthMar 12, 1995
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record14-3
Finish split4 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Daniel Santos’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min5.15
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min5.38
Striking defence50%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.60
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence73%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Featherweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Featherweight.
Striking63
Defence27
Grappling / TD54
Cardio71
Chin37
Fight IQ50

Our calls on Daniel Santos’s fights

Every fight of Daniel Santos’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 1 of Daniel Santos’s fights in 2026: 0 correct (0–1 — 0% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-05-16Dooho ChoiDaniel Santos61.5%Missed
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Daniel Santos’s fights, 1 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Daniel Santos

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD66.7%ACC 34%BODY22.1%ACC 65%LEGS11.2%ACC 70%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 67% head / 22% body / 11% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
66.7% acc 34%+3.7 vs field
BODY
22.1% acc 65%+1.9 vs field
LEGS
11.2% acc 70%−5.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 76%CLINCH 9%GROUND 15%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

6 UFC fights · 357 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Daniel Santos

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

2.60takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.60 landed per 15 minutes — +0.24 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS69
2.60 / 15m+0.24 vs field
ATTEMPTS76
7.88 / 15m+2.01 vs field
ACCURACY39
33%−10pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.27 vs field

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.

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.

Ranked in Featherweight

Recent form

Pro record: 14-3. In the UFC: 4-2. Daniel Santos’s last 6 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

Full UFC career — 6 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-05-16LDooho ChoiKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Costa
2025-10-04WJooSang YooKO/TKOR2UFC 320: Ankalaev vs. Pereira 2
2025-05-10WJeongYeong LeeDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena
2023-06-03WJohnny MunozDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Kara-France vs. Albazi
2022-10-01WJohn CastanedaKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Yan
2022-04-09LJulio ArceDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

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