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Yana Santos vs Luana Santos prediction

Women's Bantamweight · Moicano vs Nolan · 31 Oct 2026
UFC 7-5 · Pro 17-8
VS
UFC 6-1 · Pro 11-2

Prediction

early read
Luana Santos 75%
25%75%
as of 11 Oct 2026, 09:03 UTC

By the numbers

  • Age

    Santos is 10 years younger. With an age gap of 10 years or more, the younger fighter wins 70% of UFC fights (353 of 508 fights).

  • Time away

    Santos’s first UFC fight in 13 months. A fighter coming back after 1 to 2 years away, against an opponent active within the year, wins 41% of the time (377 of 929 fights).

Counted from every UFC fight on record before this bout. These are history, not our model’s read.

Tale of the tape

The facts, side by side — Yana Santos vs Luana Santos.

Red corner YanaSantosAmerican Top Team · Born in Murmansk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union · Fights out of Saint Petersburg, Russia
VSUpcoming
Blue corner LuanaSantosFights out of São Paulo, Brazil
Women's BantamweightPicks published · graded in public after the card
The story
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Santos.
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
17-8
Record
11-2
36
Age
−10 yr26
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
+1″68″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+512
UFC bouts
7
0/70% of wins
Finishes
+50%3/650% of wins
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Fights out of
São Paulo, Brazil
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s.
All the vitals, as a table
UFC 7-5UFC recordUFC 6-1
17-8Pro record11-2
5' 6"Height5' 6"
68"Reach67"
OrthodoxStanceOrthodox
36Age26
135 lbs.Weight135 lbs.
RussiaNationalityBrazil
Murmansk, Russian SFSR, Soviet UnionBorn in—
Saint Petersburg, RussiaFights out ofSão Paulo, Brazil
American Top TeamCamp—
Vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves.

FightIQ Metrics

Our read — not official stats. Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the fighter’s own weight class (the full roster where a division is too thin to rank in). The better score on each row is highlighted in that fighter's corner colour.

Yana SantosLuana Santos
86
Striking
53
57
Defence
89
37
Grappling / TD
70
12
Cardio
27
20
Chin
77
42
Fight IQ
63
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within weight class.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Where they go — head to head

Career UFC significant strikes by target zone. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Yana Santos12 UFC fights · 677 landed

33.5%
HEAD
59.0%
41.2%
BODY
29.2%
25.3%
LEGS
11.8%

Luana Santos7 UFC fights · 195 landed

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.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Yana Santos

0.78takedowns / 15 min
0.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.14 / 15m
1.66 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.78 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
37%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Luana Santos

2.14takedowns / 15 min

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. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Bantamweight

Stats comparison

Yana Santos (left) vs Luana Santos (right) — career striking & grappling rates.

Strikes landed / min
4.41
vs
2.53
Striking accuracy
57%
vs
53%
Strikes absorbed / min
3.12
vs
2.45
Striking defence
52%
vs
64%
Takedowns / 15 min
0.78
vs
2.14
Takedown accuracy
47%
vs
37%
Takedown defence
51%
vs
85%
Sub attempts / 15 min
0.1
vs
1
Career averages from public UFC statistics.

Bios

Who these two are — reported newsroom prose where we have it, our own data-built profile where we don’t. Each is labelled.

Yana SantosFightIQ profileDecision fighter

5' 6" orthodox decision fighter campaigning at Women's Bantamweight. 7 UFC wins — 7 decision.

Built from Yana Santos’s own fight record and striking and grappling figures, recomputed for this build. Full profile →
Luana SantosFightIQ profileAll-rounder

5' 6" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Women's Bantamweight. 6 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 3 decision.

Built from Luana Santos’s own fight record and striking and grappling figures, recomputed for this build. Full profile →

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