Alexandre Pantoja vs Kyoji Horiguchi — Compare

Compare any two UFC fighters

Alexandre Pantoja

30-6Flyweight

American Top Team

Anchored to Flyweight

Kyoji Horiguchi

36-5, 1 NCFlyweight

American Top Team

Data current through Jun 20, 2026

Tale of the Tape

The biometric deltas where one side genuinely has an edge.

Alexandre PantojavsKyoji Horiguchi

Age

younger

5'5"

165cm

Height

Even

5'5"

165cm

67"

170cm

Reach

reach

63"

160cm

Edge sizeSlightNotableMajor

Activity & layoff

The recency dimension Tale of the Tape doesn't carry. How active each fighter has been, and how that compares to active peers in their division.

Matchup-relevant delta

Alexandre has 6 months more layoff

Time since last UFC bout

Alexandre6 months

Kyoji4 days

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Alexandre Pantoja

Within a year

6 monthssince last bout

vs Joshua Van · Dec 6, 2025

Kyoji Horiguchi

Active

4 dayssince last bout

vs Manel Kape · Jun 20, 2026

Shared training affiliations

Camps both fighters currently affiliate with. The strongest signal first; secondary ties follow.

Primary teammates

American Top Team

Coconut Creek, United States

Elite

Roster

128

Alexandre Pantoja and Kyoji Horiguchi are primary teammates at American Top Team.

Alexandre PantojaPrimaryKyoji HoriguchiPrimary

Current affiliations only. Past camps the fighters may have shared (and since left) aren’t tracked in our schema yet, so absence below doesn’t rule out historical teammate ties.

Division context

Division percentiles below rank both fighters against the Flyweight roster (206 fighters).

Recent form

Last five pro bouts (non-UFC fights dashed + tagged), current trajectory, and the level of opposition going into this matchup.

Alexandre Pantoja

Kyoji Horiguchi

Pantoja — last 5

recent → old

Horiguchi — last 5

recent → old

WRIZIN

DEC

Zulu

Dec ’24

WRIZIN

DEC

Pettis

Jun ’24

Last 5 record

4-1

Even

4-1

Current streak

Even

Ranked opps

4 of 5

3 of 5

Layoff

7 mo

4 d

Common opponents

Every UFC opponent both fighters have faced — a direct comparison controlling for matchmaking.

Alexandre Pantoja

Kyoji Horiguchi

Record vs common opponents

Edge · Pantoja

2-0

2-0

1-1

1-1

Edge · Pantoja

Decision (Unanimous)R3· 5:00

Both won

Decision (Unanimous)R3· 5:00

Schedule Score

Who they've faced × what they've done. Composite + components compared head-to-head, percentile-ranked against every UFC fighter w/ ≥3 resolved bouts.

UFC only

Alexandre Pantoja

Schedule Score

Kyoji Horiguchi

Schedule Score

UFC experienceTotal octagon time + bouts

215 min

18 bouts

Octagon time

62 min

153 min

11 bouts

Schedule strength

78%

75%

Win quality

79%

69%

Ranked opponents

Title-holder bouts

Even

Opponent quality distribution

every UFC bout, bucketed by who the opponent was at the time

Alexandre Pantoja

18 bouts

Kyoji Horiguchi

11 bouts

Champion

Top-5

Top-15

Building

Unproven

Per-tier records + bout-by-bout

Per-tier records

Tier	Alexandre Pantoja	Kyoji Horiguchi
Champion	2-2	0-1
Top-5	6-1	2-1
Top-15	4-1	4-0
Building	2-0	1-0
Unproven	—	2-0

Alexandre Pantoja — bouts

Kyoji Horiguchi — bouts

All figures are 0–100 ratings (shown as %), not percentages of anything literal. Schedule strength = the average quality of every UFC opponent faced (win or lose). Win quality = the average quality of the opponents actually beaten. The composite Schedule Score combines schedule strength (65%) with win quality (35%). Per-bout opponent quality is scored on rank-at-time-of-fight (champion 100, ranks 1–5 = 90→78, ranks 6–15 = 75→60), with cross-division and P4P signals layered on, falling back to opponent UFC record-at-time for unranked opponents. For fighters with limited UFC experience the headline is held toward a rookie baseline, so debut / low-sample fighters read lower than established names. UFC ranking data is sparse before December 2018, so legacy-era fighters score from record-at-time when ranks are missing.

Striking matchup

Each fighter's offense mapped against the other's defense — where one attacks meets where the other gets hit, across head, body, and leg. Per 15 minutes of UFC fight time.

UFC only

Overall Striking

Striking

50th

+19

69th

Horiguchi has the striking edge (+19).

Attacking

Pantoja’s offensevsHoriguchi’s defense

Where Pantoja attacks (green = high volume) vs where Horiguchi gets hit (red = vulnerable) — Pantoja’s green zones meeting Horiguchi’s red zones are the openings.

Alexandre PantojaOffense

Head63%79th597
Body21%74th202
Leg15%62nd142

Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share of strikes

Kyoji HoriguchiDefense

Head56%75th176
Body25%66th80
Leg19%60th61

Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share absorbed · partly opponent-dependent

Pantoja — by position

81%Standing

Standing81%764
Clinch10%94
Ground9%83

Horiguchi — absorbed by position

75%Standing

Standing75%237
Clinch17%55
Ground8%25

Each lane: the attacker’s strike rate (offense) vs the other’s rate absorbed (defense), graded on the division. The bar leans toward whoever wins the exchange — longer + greener = a bigger, higher-quality edge.

Pantoja’s offensevsHoriguchi’s defense

Head

79th

39.7

Even

75th

21.2

Body

74th

13.5

Even

66th

8.7

Leg

62nd

9.6

Even

60th

6.6

Horiguchi’s offensevsPantoja’s defense

Head

78th

38.6

+57

22nd

45.1

Body

49th

9.3

+27

75th

7.6

Leg

37th

5.4

+38

75th

4.9

Full breakdown — all zones, both views

Zone	Fighter	Landed / 15	Accuracy	Absorbed / 15	Career landed
Head	Alexandre Pantoja	top 21% of division39.7	42%	well below average45.1	597
Head	Kyoji Horiguchi	top 22% of division38.6	43%	top 25% of division21.2	417
Body	Alexandre Pantoja	top 26% of division13.5	74%	top 25% of division7.6	202
Body	Kyoji Horiguchi	around division average9.3	66%	above division average8.7	90
Leg	Alexandre Pantoja	above division average9.6	81%	top 25% of division4.9	142
Leg	Kyoji Horiguchi	below division average5.4	77%	above division average6.6	48

Per-15-minute rates are sourced from UFCStats fight totals across each fighter’s UFC career. Division percentile is computed against every UFC fighter who has competed in this weight class with at least two recorded bouts. Lower “absorbed” values are better — the percentile is inverted so “top of division” always means better outcome.

Grappling matchup

Takedowns, submission threat, and control. Per 15 minutes of UFC fight time, with takedown defense as a percentage of opponent attempts stopped.

UFC only

Alexandre Pantoja

Kyoji Horiguchi

Each metric graded on the division — the bar leans toward whoever wins that part of the grappling exchange (longer + greener = a bigger edge).

Overall Grappling

Grappling

71st

+18

53rd

Pantoja has the grappling edge (+18).

Takedowns

73rd

2.8

+17

57th

1.7

Takedown accuracy

73rd

48%

40/84

+11

62nd

40%

17/42

Takedown defense

61st

69%

54/78

+13

47th

61%

30/49

Submission threat

70th

1.0

+35

35th

0.1

Control time

78th

4.8 min

+13

65th

3.3 min

Full breakdown — career grappling totals

Metric	Alexandre Pantoja	Kyoji Horiguchi
Takedowns landed / 15career takedowns	2.840	1.717
Takedown accuracycareer landed / attempted	48%40 / 84	40%17 / 42
Takedown defensecareer stopped / faced	69%54 / 78	61%30 / 49
Submission attempts / 15career attempts	1.014	0.11
Control time / 15 (min)career total	4.8 min69:18	3.3 min33:10
Time controlled by opponent / 15 (min)career total	1.7 min23:43	2.7 min27:12

All rates computed from UFCStats fight totals across each fighter’s UFC career. Takedown defense = opponent attempts stopped ÷ opponent total attempts. Control time figures are minutes the fighter spent in a dominant position per 15 minutes of fight time. Accuracy under 8 career attempts is shown raw and ungraded — too small a sample to rate against the division.

Finishing & durability

How often each fighter ends fights early — and how often they get put away. Outcomes view, not per-minute output.

Alexandre Pantoja

Kyoji Horiguchi

When their fights end

every pro finish on the fight clock

Pantoja20W–1L by finish

Horiguchi21W–4L by finish

0:00

5:00

10:00

15:00

20:00

25:00

Win(above)Loss(below)KO / TKOSubmissionPosition = when the fight ended

Finish & durability rates

Full professional career

Finish rate

↑9%·Pantoja

percent of wins ending by KO or submission

↑9%·Pantoja

50th

67%

+14

36th

58%

Goes the distance

Even

percent of resolved bouts going to a decision (style read, not quality)

Even

42%

41%

KO durability

Even

percent of resolved bouts ending in a KO/TKO loss

Even

61st

+10

51st

Submission defense

Even

percent of resolved bouts ending by submission loss

Even

64th

Even

63rd

Full method breakdown

Outcome	Alexandre Pantoja	Kyoji Horiguchi
Wins
by KO / TKO	8(27%)	15(42%)
by submission	12(40%)	6(17%)
by decision	10(33%)	15(42%)
Losses
by KO / TKO	1(17%)	2(40%)
by submission	0(0%)	1(20%)
by decision	5(83%)	2(40%)

Full professional career method splits, graded against the full-pro division distribution. Career KO losses are the total — clean knockouts and cut/injury stoppages can’t be separated outside the UFC corpus. Finish-time pace is UFC-only.

KO history

UFC fights only — knockout power and chin durability, head-to-head, then when the last finish landed, and on whom.

Alexandre Pantoja

Kyoji Horiguchi

11%

2 KO/TKO in 18 bouts

Knockout rate

18%

2 KO/TKO in 11 bouts

0.7 / 100 head

Knockdowns dealt

1.4 / 100 head

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Clean KO losses

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

0.1 / 100 head

Knockdowns absorbed

0.6 / 100 head

Chin bars use a league scale: green = clean record, red = bottom ~10% of UFC fighters (4+ KO losses · 6+ knockdowns absorbed).

Alexandre PantojaFinish timeline

Last time KO'd
vs Joshua Van6 months ago
UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2 · Dec 6, 2025 · R1 · 0:26
* injury · not a clean KO
Last time submitted
Never submitted in the UFC

Kyoji HoriguchiFinish timeline

Last time KO'd
vs Manel Kape4 days ago
UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Horiguchi · Jun 20, 2026 · R3 · 2:42
Last time submitted
vs Demetrious Johnson11y 1mo ago
UFC 186: Johnson vs. Horiguchi · Apr 25, 2015 · R5 · 4:59

Pace & fade

How each fighter's work rate holds up as a fight wears on — round-by-round output (striking, takedown attempts, and control time combined), and whether they fade. The fade % compares round-3 output to round 1 over bouts that reached the third round.

UFC only

Alexandre Pantoja

90%

R3 vs R1 · 11 bouts reaching R3

Kyoji Horiguchi

130%

R3 vs R1 · 9 bouts reaching R3

No clear cardio edge — Pantoja builds (+4% per round through round 5) and Horiguchi builds (+8% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Pantoja keeps 90% of round-1 output by round 3, Horiguchi 130%.

Pantoja ▲ BUILDS

Horiguchi ▲ BUILDSOutput / min

Faded points are drawn from a single bout that reached that round, so they’re less reliable than the solid points averaged over many fights.

Rounds backed by fewer than 2 bouts are drawn smaller and dimmed with an n= count — a deep round seen in one or two fights is a thin sample, not a settled rate. Per-round bout counts are in the breakdown below.

Full per-round breakdown — both fighters

What drives the pace · per round

The composite output line above blends these three inputs. Splitting them out shows whether a fighter’s work rate is built on striking volume, takedown pressure, or top control — and which input fades.

Sig. strikes landed

Pantoja

Horiguchilanded / min

Takedown attempts

Pantoja

Horiguchiattempts / min

Control time

Pantoja

Horiguchi% of round

Round	Fighter	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	Alexandre Pantoja	7.1	4.6	2.9	0.38	34%	18
R1	Kyoji Horiguchi	4.6	3.1	1.7	0.28	17%	11
R2	Alexandre Pantoja	6.8	4.8	4.3	0.36	24%	13
R2	Kyoji Horiguchi	6.7	4.2	1.8	0.35	35%	10
R3	Alexandre Pantoja	6.0	3.7	4.0	0.40	27%	11
R3	Kyoji Horiguchi	5.5	4.3	2.7	0.17	16%	9
R4	Alexandre Pantoja	6.3	2.9	4.6	0.47	51%	3
R4	Kyoji Horiguchi	3.5	1.4	3.6	0.60	9%	1
R5	Alexandre Pantoja	8.9	5.4	6.3	0.47	52%	3
R5	Kyoji Horiguchi	0.4	0.4	2.2	0.00	0%	1

Output / minis the headline work rate — significant strikes landed, plus 3 per takedown attempt, plus one per 15 seconds of control — so a takedown-and-grind round isn’t scored as idle the way bare striking volume would. The remaining columns are its components. Per-round rates use UFCStats per-round data (available for ~95% of bouts since 2008). Each round’s rates are averaged only over bouts that reached that round, so the bout count shrinks as rounds deepen. The final round of a finished fight is pro-rated by its actual length — a 2:30 stoppage counts as 2.5 minutes, not five — so an early finish doesn’t distort the per-minute pace.

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