Michelle Montague vs Yana Santos — Compare

Compare any two UFC fighters

Michelle Montague

8-0W2Bantamweight

American Top Team

Anchored to 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.

Michelle MontaguevsYana Santos

Age

younger

5'9"

175cm

Height

taller

5'6"

168cm

68"

173cm

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 6 months more layoff

Time since last UFC bout

Michelle1 month

Yana8 months

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Michelle Montague

Active

1 monthsince last bout

vs Mayra Bueno Silva · Apr 25, 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

Michelle Montague and Yana Santos are primary teammates at American Top Team.

Michelle MontaguePrimaryYana 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.

Cross-division comparison

Division percentiles below rank both fighters against the Bantamweight roster (341 fighters). Michelle Montague fights at Bantamweight; Yana Santos at Women's Bantamweight — Yana Santos’s percentiles are measured against a division they don’t compete in, so read them with that in mind.

Recent form

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

Michelle Montague

Yana Santos

Montague — last 5

recent → old

WPFL

SUB R1

Morais

Aug ’24

WBELLATOR

SUB R1

Sobek

Jun ’24

WPFL

SUB R2

Montes

Aug ’23

Santos — last 5

recent → old

Last 5 record

5-0

3-2

Current streak

Ranked opps

1 of 5

4 of 5

Layoff

2 mo

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

Michelle Montague

Schedule Score

Yana Santos

Schedule Score

UFC experienceTotal octagon time + bouts

30 min

2 bouts

Octagon time

124 min

154 min

12 bouts

Schedule strength

56%

72%

Win quality

97%

53%

Ranked opponents

Title-holder bouts

Even

Opponent quality distribution

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

Michelle Montague

2 bouts

Yana Santos

12 bouts

Champion

Top-5

Top-15

Cross-div ranked

Title-fight challenger

Established

Unproven

Pre-UFC opposition

non-UFC slate for Michelle Montague, from opponents’ full pro records

Michelle Montague

Developmental

Opponents' combined record

18-22

.450 win rate

Winning-record opponents

2 of 6

carried winning pro records

Pro bouts faced

all opponents have 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	Michelle Montague	Yana Santos
Champion	—	1-1
Top-5	1-0	2-2
Top-15	—	3-0
Cross-div ranked	—	0-1
Title-fight challenger	—	0-1
Established	1-0	—
Unproven	—	1-0

Michelle Montague — 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

40th

+18

58th

Santos has the striking edge (+18).

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.

Montague’s offensevsSantos’s defense

Head

62nd

33.8

54th

31.0

Body

37th

7.9

+10

26th

13.6

Leg

31st

5.1

+46

78th

4.6

Santos’s offensevsMontague’s defense

Head

35th

24.3

+21

56th

30.4

Body

A+

94th

23.5

+39

55th

9.9

Leg

A+

87th

14.8

+40

47th

8.8

Full breakdown — all zones, both views

Zone	Fighter	Landed / 15	Accuracy	Absorbed / 15	Career landed
Head	Michelle Montague	above division average33.8	48%	above division average30.4	75
Head	Yana Santos	below division average24.3	37%	around division average31.0	227
Body	Michelle Montague	below division average7.9	58%	above division average9.9	7
Body	Yana Santos	top 6% of division23.5	81%	well below average13.6	279
Leg	Michelle Montague	below division average5.1	50%	around division average8.8	1
Leg	Yana Santos	top 13% of division14.8	83%	top 22% of division4.6	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

Michelle Montague

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

73rd

+20

53rd

Montague has the grappling edge (+20).

Takedowns

75th

3.5

+32

43rd

0.8

Takedown accuracy

72nd

54%

7/13

Even

66th

47%

8/17

Takedown defense

—

38th

52%

16/31

Submission threat

54th

0.0

45th

0.1

Control time

A+

93rd

10.5 min

+18

75th

4.4 min

Full breakdown — career grappling totals

Metric	Michelle Montague	Yana Santos
Takedowns landed / 15career takedowns	3.57	0.88
Takedown accuracycareer landed / attempted	54%7 / 13	47%8 / 17
Takedown defensecareer stopped / faced	—0 / 0	52%16 / 31
Submission attempts / 15career attempts	0.00	0.11
Control time / 15 (min)career total	10.5 min20:57	4.4 min45:18
Time controlled by opponent / 15 (min)career total	0.8 min1:39	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.

Michelle Montague

Yana Santos

When their fights end

every pro finish on the fight clock

Montague6W–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

↑28%·Montague

percent of wins ending by KO or submission

↑28%·Montague

58th

75%

+34

24th

47%

Goes the distance

Even

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

Even

25%

48%

KO durability

↑12%·Montague

percent of resolved bouts ending in a KO/TKO loss

↑12%·Montague

65th

+42

23rd

12%

Submission defense

↑8%·Montague

percent of resolved bouts ending by submission loss

↑8%·Montague

58th

+26

32nd

Full method breakdown

Outcome	Michelle Montague	Yana Santos
Wins
by KO / TKO	0(0%)	7(41%)
by submission	6(75%)	1(6%)
by decision	2(25%)	9(53%)
Losses
by KO / TKO	0	3(38%)
by submission	0	2(25%)
by decision	0	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.

Michelle Montague

Yana Santos

0 KO/TKO in 2 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).

Michelle MontagueFinish 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

Michelle Montague

93%

R3 vs R1 · 2 bouts reaching R3

Yana Santos

66%

R3 vs R1 · 10 bouts reaching R3

Both lean the same way, but Montague leans harder: Montague fades (-4% per round through round 3), Santos fades (-18% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Montague keeps 93% of round-1 output by round 3, Santos 66%.

Montague ▼ FADES

Santos ▼ FADESOutput / min

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

Montague

Santoslanded / min

Takedown attempts

Montague

Santosattempts / min

Control time

Montague

Santos% of round

Round	Fighter	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	Michelle Montague	6.6	2.6	2.4	0.30	77%	2
R1	Yana Santos	6.3	4.3	3.0	0.17	36%	12
R2	Michelle Montague	7.9	3.5	3.5	0.70	57%	2
R2	Yana Santos	7.0	5.6	3.0	0.06	33%	10
R3	Michelle Montague	6.1	2.2	1.5	0.30	76%	2
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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