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Taila Santos

UFC 4-3Pro 19-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Taila Santos’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

UFC recordUFC 4-3 first fight 2019-02-02 · last fight 2023-08-26
Pro record19-3
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W W W
DivisionWomen's Flyweight
Age33
Height5' 6"
StanceOrthodox

5' 6" orthodox decision fighter campaigning at Women's Flyweight. 4 UFC wins — 1 submission, 3 decision. Top 4% of Women's Flyweights: stuffs 86% of the takedowns tried on her and completes 76% of her takedown attempts.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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)Jaragua do Sul, Santa Catarina
CampTeam Taila Santos
Height5' 6"
Reach68"
StanceOrthodox
Age33
Date of birthJun 22, 1993
Weight125 lbs.
Pro record19-3
UFC recordUFC 4-3 first fight 2019-02-02 · last fight 2023-08-26
Finish split4 UFC wins — 1 submission, 3 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Taila Santos has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, 2 of them, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Taila Santos in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Women's Flyweight141 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 21 December 2020No table on record · Dec 2020 – Jan 2021#11–15 · from the table of 18 January 2021#6–10 · from the table of 27 September 2021#1–5 · from the table of 23 November 2021No table on record · Dec 2021 – Jan 2022#1–5 · from the table of 17 January 2022No table on record · Dec 2022 – Jan 2023#1–5 · from the table of 17 January 2023First rankedLast rankedPound-for-pound70 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 13 June 2022No table on record · Dec 2022 – Jan 2023#6–10 · from the table of 17 January 2023#11–15 · from the table of 7 March 2023#6–10 · from the table of 20 June 2023#11–15 · from the table of 18 July 2023First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#1Women's Flyweight · Feb 2023
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–596on the published tables, title reigns aside
CurrentUnrankedsince Nov 2023

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 6 October 2026

A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.

Career rates facts

Career averages over Taila Santos’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on her official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min3.39
Striking accuracy48%
Strikes absorbed / min2.64
Striking defence58%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.00
Takedown accuracy76%
Takedown defence86%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.10

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Women's Flyweight 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 Women's Flyweight.
Striking57
Defence78
Grappling / TD88
Cardio55
Chin72
Fight IQ70

Our calls on Taila Santos’s fights

We have not called one of Taila Santos’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 1 of Taila Santos’s fights, 1 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

Taila Santos

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

HEAD53.1%ACC 34%BODY20.6%ACC 60%LEGS26.3%ACC 88%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 26.3% to the legs — +10.8 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
53.1% acc 34%−8.3 vs field
BODY
20.6% acc 60%−2.5 vs field
LEGS
26.3% acc 88%+10.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 68%CLINCH 14%GROUND 18%

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.

7 UFC fights · 315 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Taila Santos

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

2.00takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 2.00 takedowns per 15 minutes at 76% completion — +33pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS78
2.00 / 15m+0.48 vs field
ATTEMPTS39
2.63 / 15m−1.09 vs field
ACCURACY96
76%+33pp vs field
SUB ATT89
1.10 / 15m+0.48 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (3.42 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 Women's Flyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 19-3. In the UFC: 4-3. Taila Santos’s last 7 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 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2021-11-20POTNPerformance of the NightJoanne WoodUFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate

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 — 7 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2023-08-26LErin BlanchfieldDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie
2022-06-11LValentina ShevchenkoDecision (split)R5UFC 275: Teixeira vs. Prochazka
2021-11-20WJoanne WoodSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate
2021-09-25WRoxanne ModafferiDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega
2020-12-19WGillian RobertsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Neal
2020-07-15WMolly McCannDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Ige
2019-02-02LMara Romero BorellaDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Assuncao vs. Moraes 2

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 Taila Santos 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, 2020–2021Kallang, Singapore — 2 bouts, 2022–2023Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 1 bout, 2020Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil — 1 bout, 2019Hometown: Jaragua do Sul, Santa Catarina

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

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