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Jorge Santiago

UFC 1-5Pro 25-12tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Jorge Santiago’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

UFC recordUFC 1-5 first fight 2006-06-28 · last fight 2013-02-16
Pro record25-12
Current streak5 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L L
DivisionMiddleweight
Age46
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Middleweight. 1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameThe Sandman
NationalityBrazil
Hometown (per Sherdog)Rio de Janeiro
Camppending
Height6' 1"
Reach75"
StanceOrthodox
Age46
Date of birthOct 09, 1980
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record25-12
UFC recordUFC 1-5 first fight 2006-06-28 · last fight 2013-02-16
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO

Career rates facts

Career averages over Jorge Santiago’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 / min1.69
Striking accuracy35%
Strikes absorbed / min2.62
Striking defence56%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.58
Takedown accuracy30%
Takedown defence52%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking22
Defence68
Grappling / TD30
Cardio40
Chin7
Fight IQ33

Strike zones

Strike zones

Jorge Santiago

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

HEAD59.6%ACC 24%BODY26.9%ACC 76%LEGS13.5%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 60% head / 27% body / 14% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
59.6% acc 24%−3.9 vs field
BODY
26.9% acc 76%+6.4 vs field
LEGS
13.5%−2.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 64%CLINCH 28%GROUND 8%

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.

6 UFC fights · 104 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Jorge Santiago

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

0.58takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.58 takedowns and 0.80 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS15
0.58 / 15m−1.70 vs field
ATTEMPTS21
1.93 / 15m−3.40 vs field
ACCURACY25
30%−17pp vs field
SUB ATT49
0.80 / 15m−0.75 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 25-12. In the UFC: 1-5. Jorge Santiago’s last 6 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.

Post-fight bonuses

1 post-fight bonus since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2011-05-28FOTNFight of the NightBrian StannUFC 130: Rampage vs Hamill

The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.

Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 245 of 1,339 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.

Full UFC career — 6 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2013-02-16LGunnar NelsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FUEL TV: Barao vs McDonald
2011-10-08LDemian MaiaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 136: Edgar vs Maynard 3
2011-05-28LBrian StannKO/TKOR2UFC 130: Rampage vs Hamill
2006-12-13LAlan BelcherKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Sanchez vs Riggs
2006-08-17LChris LebenKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night 6
2006-06-28WJustin LevensKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night 5

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 map

The 4 cities Jorge Santiago 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.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 3 bouts, 2006–2011Houston, Texas, USA — 1 bout, 2011London, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2013San Diego, California, USA — 1 bout, 2006Hometown: Rio de Janeiro

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

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