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Thales Leites
28-9tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Thales Leites’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record28-9
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L L W L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age44
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight. 13 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 6 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
HometownNiteroi, Rio de Janeiro
Fighting out ofNova Uniao
Height6' 1"
Reach78.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age44
Date of birthSep 06, 1981
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record28-9
Finish split13 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 6 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Thales Leites’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 / min2.13
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min2.99
Striking defence52%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.10
Takedown accuracy27%
Takedown defence30%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.10

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking35
Defence54
Grappling / TD48
Cardio17
Chin79
Fight IQ47

Strike zones

Strike zones

Thales Leites

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

HEAD68.9%ACC 33%BODY10.1%ACC 61%LEGS21.0%ACC 89%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 68.9% upstairs — +5.3 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
68.9% acc 33%+5.3 vs field
BODY
10.1% acc 61%−10.5 vs field
LEGS
21.0% acc 89%+5.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 68%CLINCH 11%GROUND 21%

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.

21 UFC fights · 562 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Thales Leites

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

2.10takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.10 landed per 15 minutes — −0.17 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS63
2.10 / 15m−0.17 vs field
ATTEMPTS78
7.78 / 15m+2.46 vs field
ACCURACY20
27%−20pp vs field
SUB ATT62
1.10 / 15m−0.46 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 28-9. In the UFC: 13-8. Thales Leites’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.

Full UFC career — 21 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2018-09-22WHector LombardDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Marreta vs. Anders
2018-05-12LJack HermanssonKO/TKOR3UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington
2017-10-07LBrad TavaresDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee
2017-04-22WSam AlveyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov
2016-11-19LKrzysztof JotkoDecision (unanimous)R3
2016-08-06WChris CamozziSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Caceres
2016-02-27LGegard MousasiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Silva vs Bisping
2015-07-18LMichael BispingDecision (split)R5UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs Leites
2015-01-31WTim BoetschSubmissionR2UFC 183: Silva vs Diaz
2014-08-23WFrancis CarmontKO/TKOR2
2014-04-11WTrevor SmithKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Minotauro vs Nelson
2013-11-16WEd HermanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 167: St-Pierre vs Hendricks
2013-08-03WTom WatsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 163: Aldo vs Jung
2009-08-08LAlessio SakaraDecision (split)R3UFC 101: Declaration
2009-04-18LAnderson SilvaDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 97: Redemption
2008-10-25WDrew McFedriesSubmissionR1UFC 90: Silva vs Cote
2008-06-07WNate MarquardtDecision (split)R3UFC 85: Bedlam
2007-08-25WRyan JensenSubmissionR1UFC 74: Respect
2007-06-23WFloyd SwordSubmissionR1The Ultimate Fighter: Team Pulver vs. Team Penn Finale
2007-04-07WPete SellDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 69: Shootout
2006-11-11LMartin KampmannDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: The Comeback Finale

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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