Fight completed
Yana Santos vs Luana Santos
Luana Santos def. Yana Santos · Decision - Unanimous · Round 3, 5:00
Orthodox · Judo · Syndicate MMA
Santos’s profileTale of the tape
How they win
Santos
17 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 7
- Submission
- 1
- Decision
- 9
Santos
11 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 1
- Submission
- 5
- Decision
- 5
How these figures are measured
- Sig. strikes landed per minute
- Significant strikes landed, divided by minutes fought. Career figure.
- Strike accuracy, all strikes
- Every strike landed as a share of every strike thrown, significant or not, over the career. ESPN's own figure. It is not significant-strike accuracy, which runs lower.
- Takedowns per 15 minutes
- Takedowns landed for every 15 minutes fought, the length of a three-round bout. Career figure.
- Takedown accuracy
- Takedowns landed as a share of those attempted. Career figure.
- Submission attempts per 15 minutes
- Submission attempts for every 15 minutes fought. Career figure.
- Finish rate
- Share of the wins on file that ended by knockout, technical knockout or submission.
- Days since last fight
- From the last bout on file to the date of this one.
Records, measurements and career averages are reported by ESPN. The UFC record, last fight, finish rate and win methods are counted by Statwell from the bouts on file for each fighter, which can be fewer than the full professional record. No striking or grappling averages are available for both fighters yet.
Matchup snapshot
Santos
12 measured UFC bouts, 153.6 minutes
Santos
7 measured UFC bouts, 77.1 minutes
- 4.41677 landed of 1170 thrown (58%)
- Significant strikes landedper minute
- 2.53195 landed of 364 thrown (54%)
- 3.12opponents landed 479 of 1015
- Significant strikes absorbedper minute
- 2.45opponents landed 189 of 531
- 47%8 of 17 attempts
- Takedowns completedof those attempted
- 38%11 of 29 attempts
- 52%conceded 15 of 31 faced
- Takedowns defendedof those faced
- 86%conceded 1 of 7 faced
- 1scored, 2 suffered
- Knockdownsscored and suffered
- 0scored, 0 suffered
About these statistics
Counted by Statwell from ESPN’s per-bout figures over each fighter’s measured UFC bouts. Small samples move quickly: read each figure with the number of bouts behind it. Nothing here is adjusted for the level of past opponents.
Recent form
Yana Santos
3-2 in last 5- W
vs Macy Chiasson
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC 320: Ankalaev vs. Pereira 2
Sig. strikes 65 of 124 · Takedowns 0 of 1
- W
vs Miesha Tate
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo
Sig. strikes 66 of 117 · Takedowns 0 of 1
- W
vs Chelsea Chandler
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Tybura vs. Spivac 2
Sig. strikes 94 of 135 · 1 knockdown
- L
vs Karol Rosa
Decision - Split · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Magomedov
Sig. strikes 95 of 156
- L
vs Holly Holm
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Sandhagen
Sig. strikes 21 of 46
Luana Santos
4-1 in last 5- W
vs Karol Rosa
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Horiguchi 2
Sig. strikes 9 of 11 · Takedowns 2 of 10
- W
vs Melissa Croden
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Kape
Sig. strikes 12 of 24 · Takedowns 3 of 7
- W
vs Tainara Lisboa
Submission · R2 · 4:59
· UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales
Sig. strikes 15 of 19 · Takedowns 2 of 2
- L
vs Casey O'Neill
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC 305: Du Plessis vs. Adesanya
Sig. strikes 41 of 97 · Takedowns 1 of 5
- W
vs Mariya Agapova
Submission · R1 · 3:27
· UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. Cortez
Sig. strikes 2 of 4 · Takedowns 1 of 1
Statwell Intel
The full analysis is published.
A striker who lands more than four significant strikes a minute against a judoka who has spent most of her last three fights in control. Yana Santos has won while being held before. What kind of control, and what she does inside it, is the question.
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