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Thiago Santos
22-11tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record22-11
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age42
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox power striker campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 14 UFC wins — 11 KO/TKO, 3 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameMarreta
NationalityBrazil
HometownRio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Fighting out ofTeam Marreta
Height6' 2"
Reach76.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age42
Date of birthJan 07, 1984
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record22-11
Finish split14 UFC wins — 11 KO/TKO, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Thiago 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 / min3.72
Striking accuracy48%
Strikes absorbed / min2.57
Striking defence53%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.88
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence65%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.10

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking66
Defence66
Grappling / TD23
Cardio59
Chin76
Fight IQ58

Strike zones

Strike zones

Thiago Santos

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

HEAD51.2%ACC 38%BODY23.0%ACC 67%LEGS25.8%ACC 74%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 25.8% to the legs — +8.8 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
51.2% acc 38%−12.6 vs field
BODY
23.0% acc 67%+3.8 vs field
LEGS
25.8% acc 74%+8.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 58%CLINCH 17%GROUND 26%

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.

24 UFC fights · 888 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Thiago Santos

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

0.88takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.88 landed per 15 minutes — −1.39 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS25
0.88 / 15m−1.39 vs field
ATTEMPTS28
2.67 / 15m−2.77 vs field
ACCURACY36
33%−10pp vs field
SUB ATT7
0.10 / 15m−1.49 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.96 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 Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 22-11. In the UFC: 14-10. Thiago 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.

Full UFC career — 24 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2022-08-06LJamahal HillKO/TKOR4UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Hill
2022-03-12LMagomed AnkalaevDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Ankalaev
2021-10-02WJohnny WalkerDecision (unanimous)R5
2021-03-06LAleksandar RakicDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya
2020-11-07LGlover TeixeiraSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Teixeira
2019-07-06LJon JonesDecision (split)R5UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos
2019-02-23WJan BlachowiczKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Santos
2018-12-08WJimi ManuwaKO/TKOR2UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega
2018-09-22WEryk AndersKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Marreta vs. Anders
2018-08-04WKevin HollandDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2
2018-04-21LDavid BranchKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee
2018-02-03WAnthony SmithKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders
2017-10-28WJack HermanssonKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Machida
2017-07-08WGerald MeerschaertKO/TKOR2UFC 213: Romero vs. Whittaker
2017-02-19WJack MarshmanKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Browne
2016-09-24LEric SpicelySubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Cyborg vs. Lansberg
2016-07-09LGegard MousasiKO/TKOR1UFC 200: Tate vs Nunes
2016-05-14WNate MarquardtKO/TKOR1UFC 198: Werdum vs Miocic
2015-12-10WElias TheodorouDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. VanZant
2015-06-27WSteve BosseKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Romero
2015-01-31WAndy EnzKO/TKOR1UFC 183: Silva vs Diaz
2014-07-05LUriah HallDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 175: Weidman vs Machida
2014-03-23WRonny MarkesKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Henderson 2
2013-08-03LCezar FerreiraSubmissionR1UFC 163: Aldo vs Jung

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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