Compare Natalia Silva vs Tracy Cortez — UFC matchup breakdown
Tale of the Tape
The biometric deltas where one side genuinely has an edge.
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.
- Tracy is speeding up while opponent slows
Division percentiles below rank both fighters against the Women's Flyweight roster (26 fighters).
Recent form
Last five pro bouts (non-UFC fights dashed + tagged), current trajectory, and the level of opposition going into this matchup.
Common opponents
Every UFC opponent both fighters have faced — a direct comparison controlling for matchmaking.
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.
Per-tier records + bout-by-bout
| Tier | Natalia Silva | Tracy Cortez |
|---|---|---|
| Champion | 1-0 | — |
| Top-5 | 4-0 | 2-2 |
| Top-15 | 1-0 | — |
| Cross-div ranked | — | 1-0 |
| Building | — | 2-0 |
| Unproven | 2-0 | 1-0 |
- W vs Rose Namajunas#682Jan 24, 2026 · Top-5
- W vs Alexa Grasso#199May 10, 2025 · Champion
- W vs Jessica Andrade#688Sep 7, 2024 · Top-5
- W vs Viviane Araujo#776Feb 3, 2024 · Top-5
- W vs Andrea Lee#1371Aug 19, 2023 · Top-15
- W vs Victoria Leonardo8May 20, 2023 · Unproven
- W vs Tereza Bleda8Nov 19, 2022 · Unproven
- W vs Jasmine Jasudavicius54Jun 18, 2022 · Top-5
- L vs Erin Blanchfield#490Nov 15, 2025 · Top-5
- W vs Viviane Araujo#876Jun 28, 2025 · Top-5
- L vs Rose Namajunas#684Jul 13, 2024 · Top-5
- W vs Jasmine Jasudavicius#1572Sep 16, 2023 · Top-5
- W vs Melissa Gatto15May 7, 2022 · Building
- W vs Justine Kish45Apr 17, 2021 · Cross-div ranked
- W vs Stephanie Egger15Oct 10, 2020 · Building
- W vs Vanessa Melo8Nov 16, 2019 · Unproven
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.
Career splits
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.
Silva has the striking edge (+19).
Where Silva attacks (green = high volume) vs where Cortez gets hit (red = vulnerable) — Silva’s green zones meeting Cortez’s red zones are the openings.
- Head58%62nd289
- Body21%65th107
- Leg21%85th106
Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share of strikes
- Head67%61st256
- Body18%72nd69
- Leg15%59th57
Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share absorbed · partly opponent-dependent
- Standing94%474
- Clinch3%13
- Ground3%15
- Standing88%338
- Clinch10%38
- Ground2%6
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.
Full breakdown — all zones, both views
| Zone | Fighter | Landed / 15 | Accuracy | Absorbed / 15 | Career landed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Head | Natalia Silva | above division average39.9 | 35% | top 21% of division24.8 | 289 |
| Head | Tracy Cortez | above division average37.1 | 41% | above division average33.0 | 311 |
| Body | Natalia Silva | above division average14.8 | 65% | above division average9.9 | 107 |
| Body | Tracy Cortez | around division average11.5 | 72% | top 28% of division9.7 | 89 |
| Leg | Natalia Silva | top 15% of division13.6 | 88% | below division average8.5 | 106 |
| Leg | Tracy Cortez | above division average9.0 | 79% | above division average7.4 | 73 |
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.
Each metric graded on the division — the bar leans toward whoever wins that part of the grappling exchange (longer + greener = a bigger edge).
Cortez has the grappling edge (+20).
Full breakdown — career grappling totals
| Metric | Natalia Silva | Tracy Cortez |
|---|---|---|
| Takedowns landed / 15career takedowns | 0.43 | 1.916 |
| Takedown accuracycareer landed / attempted | 30%3 / 10 | 44%16 / 36 |
| Takedown defensecareer stopped / faced | 90%28 / 31 | 58%18 / 31 |
| Submission attempts / 15career attempts | 0.00 | 0.43 |
| Control time / 15 (min)career total | 0.9 min6:04 | 5.2 min43:15 |
| Time controlled by opponent / 15 (min)career total | 2.8 min19:34 | 2.4 min20:06 |
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.
When their fights end
every pro finish on the fight clockFinish & durability rates
Full professional career
Full method breakdown
| Outcome | Natalia Silva | Tracy Cortez |
|---|---|---|
| Wins | ||
| by KO / TKO | 5(25%) | 1(8%) |
| by submission | 7(35%) | 1(8%) |
| by decision | 7(35%) | 10(83%) |
| other | 1(5%) | 0(0%) |
| Losses | ||
| by KO / TKO | 1(20%) | 0(0%) |
| by submission | 2(40%) | 2(67%) |
| by decision | 2(40%) | 1(33%) |
| other | 0(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.
- Last time KO'dNever finished by strikes in the UFC
- Last time submittedNever submitted in the UFC
- Last time KO'dNever finished by strikes in the UFC
- Last time submittedvs Erin Blanchfield7 months agoUFC 322: Della Maddalena vs. Makhachev · Nov 15, 2025 · R2 · 4:44
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.
Both lean the same way, but Silva leans harder: Silva builds (+18% per round through round 3), Cortez builds (+4% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Silva lifts to 147% of round-1 output by round 3, Cortez 109%.
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.
| Round | Fighter | Output / min | Sig landed / min | Sig absorbed / min | TD att / min | Control | Bouts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | Natalia Silva | 4.5 | 4.0 | 2.4 | 0.11 | 6% | 8 |
| R1 | Tracy Cortez | 6.3 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 0.20 | 33% | 8 |
| R2 | Natalia Silva | 5.2 | 4.7 | 2.3 | 0.09 | 7% | 7 |
| R2 | Tracy Cortez | 5.6 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 0.40 | 35% | 8 |
| R3 | Natalia Silva | 6.4 | 5.9 | 2.3 | 0.10 | 4% | 7 |
| R3 | Tracy Cortez | 6.8 | 4.1 | 2.5 | 0.29 | 45% | 7 |
| R4 | Natalia Silva | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| R4 | Tracy Cortez | 3.3 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 0.20 | 8% | 1 |
| R5 | Natalia Silva | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| R5 | Tracy Cortez | 5.0 | 4.2 | 5.6 | 0.20 | 5% | 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.