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Yana Santos
17-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

5'6" orthodox leg-kick heavy with a 6-5 record, age 35. Standout metric: hits 50% of takedown attempts; averages 243s of control time per fight. Form: last 5: LLLWW · on a 2-fight win streak · 154 days off · Elo 1517.

Leg-kick heavyDecision machine
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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityRussia
HometownMurmansk, Murmansk Oblast
Fighting out ofAmerican Top Team
Height5' 6"
Reach68.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age36
Date of birthNov 11, 1989
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record17-8
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.
Striking86
Defence54
Grappling / TD30
Cardio12
Chin40
Fight IQ44

Our record on Yana Santos

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

FightIQ has picked Yana Santos 2×, 2 correct (2-0 — 100% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentCardWe saidResult
2025-05-03Miesha TateUFC Fight Night: Petersen vs Mayes53.3%Correct
2024-08-10Chelsea ChandlerUFC Fight Night: Kazama vs Grigoriou51.8%Correct

Strike zones

Strike zones

Yana Santos

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

HEAD33.5%ACC 37%BODY41.2%ACC 81%LEGS25.3%ACC 83%
FightIQ read Body puncher 41.2% of his landed strikes go to the body — +20.4 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
33.5% acc 37%−29.4 vs field
BODY
41.2% acc 81%+20.4 vs field
LEGS
25.3% acc 83%+9.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 56%CLINCH 39%GROUND 5%

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.

12 UFC fights · 677 landed

Recent form

Pro record: 17-8. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).

W · vs Miesha TateUFC Fight Night: Petersen vs Mayes2025-05-03
W · vs Chelsea ChandlerUFC Fight Night: Kazama vs Grigoriou2024-08-10
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