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Vanessa Melo

UFC 1-3Pro 11-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 1-3 first fight 2019-09-21 · last fight 2021-01-16
Pro record11-8
Current streak1 win
Last 4 (UFC)W L L L
DivisionWomen's Bantamweight
Age38
Height5' 5"
StanceOrthodox

5' 5" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Women's Bantamweight. 1 UFC win — 1 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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)Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
Camppending
Height5' 5"
Reach65"
StanceOrthodox
Age38
Date of birthMar 27, 1988
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record11-8
UFC recordUFC 1-3 first fight 2019-09-21 · last fight 2021-01-16
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Vanessa Melo’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 / min3.48
Striking accuracy30%
Strikes absorbed / min6.13
Striking defence59%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.00
Takedown accuracy0%
Takedown defence71%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Women's Bantamweight 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 Bantamweight.
Striking30
Defence44
Grappling / TDn/a
Cardio38
Chin65
Fight IQ44

Strike zones

Strike zones

Vanessa Melo

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

HEAD69.3%ACC 25%BODY14.4%ACC 51%LEGS16.3%ACC 79%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 69.3% upstairs — +8.1 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
69.3% acc 25%+8.1 vs field
BODY
14.4% acc 51%−8.6 vs field
LEGS
16.3% acc 79%+0.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 95%CLINCH 4%GROUND 1%

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 · 209 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Vanessa Melo

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

0.00takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.00 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.68 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m−1.68 vs field
ATTEMPTS
Attempts per 15 needs both a landed rate and a completion rate; one of them is missing, so we do not divide.
n/a
ACCURACY
No takedown attempt on the record — UFCStats writes 0% here, which is not a completion rate.
n/a
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−0.72 vs field

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.

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 Bantamweight

Recent form

Pro record: 11-8. In the UFC: 1-3. Vanessa Melo’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
2021-01-16WSarah MorasDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Kattar
2020-07-11LKarol RosaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 251: Usman vs. Masvidal
2019-11-16LTracy CortezDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Jacare
2019-09-21LIrene AldanaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Stephens

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 3 cities Vanessa Melo 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, 2020–2021Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico — 1 bout, 2019Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil — 1 bout, 2019Hometown: Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo

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

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