Kayla Harrison vs Yana Santos — Compare

Compare any two UFC fighters

Kayla Harrison

19-1W3Women'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.

Kayla HarrisonvsYana Santos

Age

younger

5'8"

173cm

Height

taller

5'6"

168cm

66"

168cm

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

Kayla has 3 months more layoff

Time since last UFC bout

Kayla1 year

Yana8 months

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Kayla Harrison

Layoff

1 yearsince last bout

vs Julianna Pena · Jun 7, 2025

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

Kayla Harrison and Yana Santos are primary teammates at American Top Team.

Kayla HarrisonPrimaryYana 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.

Kayla Harrison

Yana Santos

Harrison — last 5

recent → old

WPFL

DEC

Ladd

Nov ’23

LPFL

DEC

Pacheco

Nov ’22

Santos — last 5

recent → old

Last 5 record

4-1

3-2

Current streak

Ranked opps

3 of 5

4 of 5

Layoff

13 mo

9 mo

Common opponents

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

Kayla Harrison

Yana Santos

Record vs common opponents

Edge · Harrison

2-0

2-0

1-1

1-1

Both won

Decision (Unanimous)R3· 5:00

Decision (Unanimous)R3· 5:00

Edge · Harrison

Decision (Unanimous)R3· 5:00

opp ranked #3

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

Kayla Harrison

Schedule Score

Yana Santos

Schedule Score

UFC experienceTotal octagon time + bouts

32 min

3 bouts

Octagon time

122 min

154 min

12 bouts

Schedule strength

94%

72%

Win quality

100%

53%

Ranked opponents

Title-holder bouts

Opponent quality distribution

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

Kayla Harrison

3 bouts

Yana Santos

12 bouts

Champion

Top-5

Top-15

Cross-div ranked

Title-fight challenger

Unproven

Pre-UFC opposition

non-UFC slate for Kayla Harrison, from opponents’ full pro records

Kayla Harrison

Strong

Opponents' combined record

170-81-1

.677 win rate

Winning-record opponents

11 of 14

carried winning pro records

Pro bouts faced

14 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	Kayla Harrison	Yana Santos
Champion	2-0	1-1
Top-5	1-0	2-2
Top-15	—	3-0
Cross-div ranked	—	0-1
Title-fight challenger	—	0-1
Unproven	—	1-0

Kayla Harrison — 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

74th

+15

59th

Harrison has the striking edge (+15).

Attacking

Harrison’s offensevsSantos’s defense

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

Kayla HarrisonOffense

Head71%70th97
Body20%56th27
Leg9%49th12

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

Harrison — by position

53%Ground

Standing29%40
Clinch18%24
Ground53%72

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.

Harrison’s offensevsSantos’s defense

Head

70th

39.0

+13

57th

31.2

Body

56th

12.0

+20

35th

13.7

Leg

49th

7.2

+25

75th

4.5

Santos’s offensevsHarrison’s defense

Head

32nd

24.9

+38

70th

26.2

Body

A+

97th

23.7

+27

71st

8.3

Leg

A+

86th

14.8

+29

57th

6.6

Full breakdown — all zones, both views

Zone	Fighter	Landed / 15	Accuracy	Absorbed / 15	Career landed
Head	Kayla Harrison	top 30% of division39.0	56%	top 30% of division26.2	97
Head	Yana Santos	below division average24.9	37%	above division average31.2	227
Body	Kayla Harrison	above division average12.0	90%	top 29% of division8.3	27
Body	Yana Santos	elite — top of division23.7	81%	below division average13.7	279
Leg	Kayla Harrison	around division average7.2	80%	above division average6.6	12
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

Kayla Harrison

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

71st

+19

52nd

Harrison has the grappling edge (+19).

Takedowns

75th

2.8

+24

51st

0.8

Takedown accuracy

47th

38%

6/16

+17

64th

47%

8/17

Takedown defense

100%

2/2

36th

52%

16/31

Submission threat

77th

0.9

+32

46th

0.1

Control time

85th

8.9 min

+24

61st

4.4 min

Full breakdown — career grappling totals

Metric	Kayla Harrison	Yana Santos
Takedowns landed / 15career takedowns	2.86	0.88
Takedown accuracycareer landed / attempted	38%6 / 16	47%8 / 17
Takedown defensecareer stopped / faced	100%2 / 2	52%16 / 31
Submission attempts / 15career attempts	0.92	0.11
Control time / 15 (min)career total	8.9 min18:50	4.4 min45:18
Time controlled by opponent / 15 (min)career total	0.1 min0:15	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.

Kayla Harrison

Yana Santos

When their fights end

every pro finish on the fight clock

Harrison14W–0L by finish · 64% in round 1

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

↑27%·Harrison

percent of wins ending by KO or submission

↑27%·Harrison

55th

74%

+29

26th

47%

Goes the distance

Even

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

Even

30%

48%

KO durability

↑12%·Harrison

percent of resolved bouts ending in a KO/TKO loss

↑12%·Harrison

74th

+45

29th

12%

Submission defense

↑8%·Harrison

percent of resolved bouts ending by submission loss

↑8%·Harrison

48th

+16

32nd

Full method breakdown

Outcome	Kayla Harrison	Yana Santos
Wins
by KO / TKO	6(32%)	7(41%)
by submission	8(42%)	1(6%)
by decision	5(26%)	9(53%)
Losses
by KO / TKO	0(0%)	3(38%)
by submission	0(0%)	2(25%)
by decision	1(100%)	3(38%)

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.

Kayla Harrison

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).

Kayla HarrisonFinish 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

Kayla Harrison

—

< 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). Harrison hasn't reached the third round in enough UFC bouts to read a pace pattern yet.

Harrison

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

Harrison

Santoslanded / min

Takedown attempts

Harrison

Santosattempts / min

Control time

Harrison

Santos% of round

Round	Fighter	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	Kayla Harrison	8.6	4.7	0.8	0.47	61%	3
R1	Yana Santos	6.3	4.3	3.0	0.17	36%	12
R2	Kayla Harrison	7.1	3.6	1.5	0.43	56%	3
R2	Yana Santos	7.0	5.6	3.0	0.06	33%	10
R3	Kayla Harrison	9.5	4.6	1.0	0.80	62%	1
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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