This Saturday Hernandez vs Rodrigues · Golden 1 Center Sacramento , CA United States See tonight's picks →
FightIQ · Record · Daniel Santos
Daniel Santos
14-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Daniel Santos’s own numbers — style, standout rate and current form. Not reported prose.

5'7" orthodox wrestle-grinder with a 3-1 record, age 30. Standout metric: averages 278s of control time per fight. Form: last 5: LWWW · on a 3-fight win streak · 147 days off · Elo 1525.

Wrestle-grinderHigh-volume striker
Assembled from the striking, grappling and form figures on this page, as of 2025-10-04. 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 splitpending

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against every fighter on record. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats.
Striking64
Defence30
Grappling / TD55
Cardio69
Chin36
Fight IQ51

Our record on Daniel Santos

The moat — every call we've made on this fighter, timestamped and graded in public. Nobody else can copy this.

FightIQ has picked Daniel Santos 2×, 1 correct (1-1 — 50% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentCardWe saidResult
2026-05-16Dooho ChoiUFC Fight Night: Allen vs Costa61.5%Missed
2023-06-03Johnny MunozUFC Fight Night: Castaneda vs Gafurov51.2%Correct

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%+3.8 vs field
BODY
22.1% acc 65%+1.3 vs field
LEGS
11.2% acc 70%−5.1 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.

6 UFC fights · 357 landed

Recent form

Pro record: 14-3. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).

L · vs Dooho ChoiUFC Fight Night: Allen vs Costa2026-05-16
W · vs Johnny MunozUFC Fight Night: Castaneda vs Gafurov2023-06-03
← See the full public record