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Carlos Leal

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FightIQ’s profile

Built from Carlos Leal’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Volume boxer

UFC recordUFC 2-2 first fight 2024-10-26 · last fight 2026-02-21
Pro record23-7
Current streak1 win
Last 4 (UFC)W L W L
DivisionWelterweight
Age32
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox volume boxer campaigning at Welterweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision. Top 2% of Welterweights: lands 8.75 significant strikes a minute and stuffs 90% of the takedowns tried on him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. 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 social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameThe Lion
NationalityBrazil
Hometown (per Sherdog)Curitiba, Parana
CampThai Brasil
Height5' 11"
Reach74"
StanceOrthodox
Age32
Date of birthMay 04, 1994
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record23-7
UFC recordUFC 2-2 first fight 2024-10-26 · last fight 2026-02-21
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Carlos Leal’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 / min8.75
Striking accuracy47%
Strikes absorbed / min7.78
Striking defence48%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.43
Takedown accuracy11%
Takedown defence90%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight 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 Welterweight.
Striking81
Defence21
Grappling / TD6
Cardio85
Chin34
Fight IQ45

Our calls on Carlos Leal’s fights

Every fight of Carlos Leal’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 1 of Carlos Leal’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-02-21Chidi NjokuaniCarlos Leal54.6%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Carlos Leal’s fights, 3 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Carlos Leal

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

HEAD64.3%ACC 37%BODY23.9%ACC 87%LEGS11.8%ACC 100%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 64% head / 24% body / 12% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
64.3% acc 37%+1.8 vs field
BODY
23.9% acc 87%+2.9 vs field
LEGS
11.8% acc 100%−4.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 87%CLINCH 13%GROUND 0%

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.

4 UFC fights · 306 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Carlos Leal

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

0.43takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.43 takedowns and 0.00 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS9
0.43 / 15m−1.67 vs field
ATTEMPTS46
3.91 / 15m−1.15 vs field
ACCURACY3
11%−35pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.33 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.27 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 Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 23-7. In the UFC: 2-2. Carlos Leal’s last 4 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 — 4 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-02-21WChidi NjokuaniDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Hernandez
2025-07-26LMuslim SalikhovKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. De Ridder
2025-03-08WAlex MoronoKO/TKOR1UFC 313: Pereira vs. Ankalaev
2024-10-26LRinat FakhretdinovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway

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.

On the scale

Carlos Leal’s official weigh-in — the weight the commission read off the scale, and the limit it had to be under.

DateOpponentWeight / limitDivisionSource
2026-02-21Chidi Njokuani170 / 171MADEWelterweightUFC.com

Weigh-in results cover the 31 UFC cards held in 2026 so far — 24 January 2026 to 12 September 2026. Earlier years are not on file yet, so a fighter with no row here is not a fighter who never missed weight.

On the map

The 3 cities Carlos Leal has fought a UFC bout in and the hometown on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 2 bouts, 2024–2025Houston, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2026Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2025Hometown: Curitiba, Parana

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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