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Leonardo Santos

UFC 7-3 (1 draw/NC)Pro 18-7-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 7-3 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2013-06-08 · last fight 2022-08-20
Pro record18-7-1
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W W
DivisionLightweight
Age46
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 7 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 3 decision. Top 11% of Lightweights: stuffs 86% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityBrazil
Hometown (per Sherdog)Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
CampNova Uniao
Height6' 0"
Reach75"
StanceOrthodox
Age46
Date of birthFeb 05, 1980
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record18-7-1
UFC recordUFC 7-3 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2013-06-08 · last fight 2022-08-20
Finish split7 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 3 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Leonardo Santos’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 / min2.82
Striking accuracy46%
Strikes absorbed / min3.40
Striking defence54%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.88
Takedown accuracy25%
Takedown defence86%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight 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 Lightweight.
Striking58
Defence54
Grappling / TD17
Cardio6
Chin65
Fight IQ40

Strike zones

Strike zones

Leonardo Santos

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

HEAD61.6%ACC 39%BODY22.9%ACC 64%LEGS15.5%ACC 85%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 62% head / 23% body / 16% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
61.6% acc 39%−0.5 vs field
BODY
22.9% acc 64%+2.1 vs field
LEGS
15.5% acc 85%−1.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 70%CLINCH 12%GROUND 17%

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.

11 UFC fights · 336 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Leonardo Santos

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

0.88takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.88 landed per 15 minutes — −1.34 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS22
0.88 / 15m−1.34 vs field
ATTEMPTS36
3.52 / 15m−2.03 vs field
ACCURACY18
25%−18pp vs field
SUB ATT11
0.20 / 15m−1.11 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.19 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 Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 18-7-1. In the UFC: 7-3-1. Leonardo Santos’s last 8 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

2 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 2 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2019-06-01POTNPerformance of the NightStevie RayUFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Smith
2015-12-12POTNPerformance of the NightKevin LeeUFC 194: Aldo vs McGregor

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 — 11 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2022-08-20LJared GordonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards
2021-12-04LClay GuidaSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Aldo
2021-03-20LGrant DawsonKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Holland
2020-07-11WRoman BogatovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 251: Usman vs. Masvidal
2019-06-01WStevie RayKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Smith
2016-10-08WAdriano MartinsDecision (split)R3UFC 204: Bisping vs. Henderson
2015-12-12WKevin LeeKO/TKOR1UFC 194: Aldo vs McGregor
2015-03-21WAnthony Rocco MartinSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Maia vs LaFlare
2014-09-13WEfrain EscuderoDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Arlovski
2014-03-23DNorman ParkeDecision (majority)R3UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Henderson 2
2013-06-08WWilliam MacarioSubmissionR2UFC on FUEL TV: Nogueira vs. Werdum

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 9 cities Leonardo Santos has fought a UFC bout in, the camp on the record 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, 2015–2021Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 1 bout, 2020Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil — 1 bout, 2014Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil — 1 bout, 2013Manchester, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2016Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil — 1 bout, 2014Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 1 bout, 2015Salt Lake City, Utah, USA — 1 bout, 2022Stockholm, Sweden — 1 bout, 2019Camp: Nova UniaoHometown: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

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

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