Bia Mesquita vs Yana Santos — Compare

Compare any two UFC fighters

Bia Mesquita

7-0W3Women's Bantamweight

American Top Team

Anchored to Women's Bantamweight

Yana Santos

17-8, 1 NCW3Women's Bantamweight

American Top Team

Data current through Jun 20, 2026

Tale of the Tape

The biometric deltas where one side genuinely has an edge.

Bia MesquitavsYana Santos

Age

younger

5'6"

168cm

Height

Even

5'6"

168cm

67"

170cm

Reach

reach

69"

174cm

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

Yana has 8 months more layoff

Time since last UFC bout

Bia4 days

Yana8 months

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Bia Mesquita

Active

4 dayssince last bout

vs Melissa Mullins · Jun 20, 2026

Yana Santos

Within a year

8 monthssince last bout

vs Macy Chiasson · Oct 4, 2025

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

Bia Mesquita and Yana Santos are primary teammates at American Top Team.

Bia MesquitaPrimaryYana SantosPrimary

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 Women's Bantamweight roster (31 fighters).

Recent form

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

Bia Mesquita

Yana Santos

Mesquita — last 5

recent → old

WLFA

KO R2

Dinwoodie

Jun ’25

WLFA

OTHER R2

Chase

Mar ’25

Santos — last 5

recent → old

Last 5 record

5-0

3-2

Current streak

Ranked opps

1 of 5

4 of 5

Layoff

4 d

9 mo

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

Bia Mesquita

Schedule Score

Yana Santos

Schedule Score

UFC experienceTotal octagon time + bouts

13 min

3 bouts

Octagon time

141 min

154 min

12 bouts

Schedule strength

30%

72%

Win quality

79%

53%

Ranked opponents

Title-holder bouts

Even

Opponent quality distribution

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

Bia Mesquita

3 bouts

Yana Santos

12 bouts

Champion

Top-5

Top-15

Cross-div ranked

Title-fight challenger

Building

Unproven

Pre-UFC opposition

non-UFC slate for Bia Mesquita, from opponents’ full pro records

Bia Mesquita

Opponents' combined record

9-4

.692 win rate

Winning-record opponents

2 of 2

carried winning pro records

Pro bouts faced

2 opponents with records on file

A descriptive read of the non-UFC slate from opponents’ full career pro records — not a UFC-grade Schedule Score.

Per-tier records + bout-by-bout

Per-tier records

Tier	Bia Mesquita	Yana Santos
Champion	—	1-1
Top-5	—	2-2
Top-15	1-0	3-0
Cross-div ranked	—	0-1
Title-fight challenger	—	0-1
Building	1-0	—
Unproven	1-0	1-0

Bia Mesquita — bouts

Yana Santos — 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

77th

+17

59th

Mesquita has the striking edge (+17).

Attacking

Mesquita’s offensevsSantos’s defense

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

Bia MesquitaOffense

Head93%70th53
Body4%41st2
Leg4%48th2

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

Yana SantosDefense

Head63%57th300
Body30%35th145
Leg7%75th34

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

Mesquita — by position

81%Ground

Standing19%11
Clinch0%0
Ground81%46

Santos — absorbed by position

57%Standing

Standing57%271
Clinch24%116
Ground19%92

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.

Mesquita’s offensevsSantos’s defense

Head

70th

40.5

+13

57th

31.2

Body

41st

9.5

Even

35th

13.7

Leg

48th

7.0

+27

75th

4.5

Santos’s offensevsMesquita’s defense

Head

32nd

24.9

+22

53rd

32.2

Body

A+

97th

23.7

+48

49th

10.0

Leg

A+

86th

14.8

+34

52nd

7.5

Full breakdown — all zones, both views

Zone	Fighter	Landed / 15	Accuracy	Absorbed / 15	Career landed
Head	Bia Mesquita	top 30% of division40.5	56%	around division average32.2	53
Head	Yana Santos	below division average24.9	37%	above division average31.2	227
Body	Bia Mesquita	below division average9.5	67%	around division average10.0	2
Body	Yana Santos	elite — top of division23.7	81%	below division average13.7	279
Leg	Bia Mesquita	around division average7.0	67%	around division average7.5	2
Leg	Yana Santos	top 14% of division14.8	83%	top 25% of division4.5	171

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

Bia Mesquita

Yana Santos

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

77th

+25

52nd

Mesquita holds a decisive grappling edge (+25).

Takedowns

72nd

3.6

+22

51st

0.8

Takedown accuracy

75%

3/4

64th

47%

8/17

Takedown defense

0/1

36th

52%

16/31

Submission threat

A+

91st

3.6

+46

46th

0.1

Control time

67th

8.1 min

Even

61st

4.4 min

Full breakdown — career grappling totals

Metric	Bia Mesquita	Yana Santos
Takedowns landed / 15career takedowns	3.63	0.88
Takedown accuracycareer landed / attempted	75%3 / 4	47%8 / 17
Takedown defensecareer stopped / faced	0%0 / 1	52%16 / 31
Submission attempts / 15career attempts	3.63	0.11
Control time / 15 (min)career total	8.1 min6:51	4.4 min45:18
Time controlled by opponent / 15 (min)career total	1.7 min1:27	3.7 min37:29

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.

Bia Mesquita

Yana Santos

When their fights end

every pro finish on the fight clock

Mesquita7W–0L by finish

Santos8W–5L by finish · 88% in round 1

0:00

5:00

10:00

15:00

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

Finish & durability rates

Full professional career

Finish rate

↑39%·Mesquita

percent of wins ending by KO or submission

↑39%·Mesquita

68th

86%

+42

26th

47%

Goes the distance

Even

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

Even

48%

KO durability

↑12%·Mesquita

percent of resolved bouts ending in a KO/TKO loss

↑12%·Mesquita

74th

+45

29th

12%

Submission defense

↑8%·Mesquita

percent of resolved bouts ending by submission loss

↑8%·Mesquita

48th

+16

32nd

Full method breakdown

Outcome	Bia Mesquita	Yana Santos
Wins
by KO / TKO	1(14%)	7(41%)
by submission	5(71%)	1(6%)
by decision	0(0%)	9(53%)
other	1(14%)	0(0%)
Losses
by KO / TKO	0	3(38%)
by submission	0	2(25%)
by decision	0	3(38%)
other	0	0(0%)

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.

Bia Mesquita

Yana Santos

0 KO/TKO in 3 bouts

Knockout rate

0 KO/TKO in 12 bouts

0.0 / 100 head

Knockdowns dealt

0.4 / 100 head

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Clean KO losses

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

0.0 / 100 head

Knockdowns absorbed

0.7 / 100 head

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

Bia MesquitaFinish timeline

Last time KO'd
Never finished by strikes in the UFC
Last time submitted
Never submitted in the UFC

Yana SantosFinish timeline

Last time KO'd
vs Irene Aldana4y 11mo ago
UFC 264: Poirier vs. McGregor 3 · Jul 10, 2021 · R1 · 4:35
Last time submitted
Never submitted in the UFC

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

Bia Mesquita

—

< 2 bouts to R3

Yana Santos

66%

R3 vs R1 · 10 bouts reaching R3

Santos drops to 66% of round-1 output by round 3 (within fights reaching round 3). Mesquita hasn't reached the third round in enough UFC bouts to read a pace pattern yet.

Mesquita

Santos ▼ FADESOutput / 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

Mesquita

Santoslanded / min

Takedown attempts

Mesquita

Santosattempts / min

Control time

Mesquita

Santos% of round

Round	Fighter	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	Bia Mesquita	8.3	5.5	1.3	0.19	55%	3
R1	Yana Santos	6.3	4.3	3.0	0.17	36%	12
R2	Bia Mesquita	4.7	0.0	1.3	0.90	49%	1
R2	Yana Santos	7.0	5.6	3.0	0.06	33%	10
R3	Bia Mesquita	—	—	—	—	—	—
R3	Yana Santos	4.2	3.2	3.4	0.09	17%	10

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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