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Paulo Thiago
18-9tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Paulo Thiago’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

Pro record18-9
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W L
DivisionWelterweight
Age45
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox decision fighter campaigning at Welterweight. 5 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 decision. Top 10% of Welterweights: avoids 63% of the strikes thrown at him and absorbs only 1.99 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityBrazil
HometownBrasilia, Federal District
Fighting out ofX-Gym
Height5' 11"
Reach74.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age45
Date of birthJan 25, 1981
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record18-9
Finish split5 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Paulo Thiago’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 / min1.71
Striking accuracy39%
Strikes absorbed / min1.99
Striking defence63%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.42
Takedown accuracy31%
Takedown defence63%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight 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 Welterweight.
Striking28
Defence86
Grappling / TD46
Cardio13
Chin47
Fight IQ44

Strike zones

Strike zones

Paulo Thiago

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

HEAD61.4%ACC 29%BODY25.6%ACC 76%LEGS13.0%ACC 97%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 61% head / 26% body / 13% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
61.4% acc 29%−0.9 vs field
BODY
25.6% acc 76%+4.5 vs field
LEGS
13.0% acc 97%−3.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 60%CLINCH 29%GROUND 12%

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.

13 UFC fights · 254 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Paulo Thiago

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

1.42takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.42 landed per 15 minutes — −0.57 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS46
1.42 / 15m−0.57 vs field
ATTEMPTS53
4.58 / 15m−0.36 vs field
ACCURACY26
31%−15pp vs field
SUB ATT67
1.20 / 15m−0.12 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 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 Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 18-9. In the UFC: 5-8. Paulo Thiago’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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