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Junior Dos Santos
21-9tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Junior Dos Santos’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

Pro record21-9
Current streak4 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age42
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox power striker campaigning at Heavyweight. 15 UFC wins — 10 KO/TKO, 5 decision. Top 15% of Heavyweights: lands 4.49 significant strikes a minute and avoids 56% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameCigano
NationalityBrazil
HometownCacador, Santa Catarina
Fighting out ofpending
Height6' 4"
Reach77.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age42
Date of birthJan 30, 1984
Weight238 lbs.
Pro record21-9
Finish split15 UFC wins — 10 KO/TKO, 5 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Junior Dos 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 / min4.49
Striking accuracy47%
Strikes absorbed / min3.33
Striking defence56%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.30
Takedown accuracy50%
Takedown defence81%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.10

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Heavyweight 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 Heavyweight.
Striking70
Defence65
Grappling / TD25
Cardio62
Chin29
Fight IQ50

Strike zones

Strike zones

Junior Dos Santos

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

HEAD61.5%ACC 40%BODY34.1%ACC 68%LEGS4.4%ACC 82%
FightIQ read Body puncher 34.1% of his landed strikes go to the body — +15.6 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
61.5% acc 40%−5.3 vs field
BODY
34.1% acc 68%+15.6 vs field
LEGS
4.4% acc 82%−10.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 85%CLINCH 8%GROUND 7%

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.

23 UFC fights · 1,109 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Junior Dos Santos

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

0.30takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.30 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.09 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS5
0.30 / 15m−2.09 vs field
ATTEMPTS6
0.60 / 15m−4.42 vs field
ACCURACY63
50%−1pp vs field
SUB ATT7
0.10 / 15m−1.55 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 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 Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 21-9. In the UFC: 15-8. Junior Dos Santos’s last 8 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.

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