Michel Prazeres

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Michel Prazeres

Nickname“Trator”

Record

27-7

Streak

L3

Age

45

Date of birth

Jul 25, 1981

Fighting out of: Belem, Para
Born: Brazil
Camps: Coalizao Fight Team·Frankiko Team·Trator Team
Weight class: Welterweight
Height: 5'6" · 168 cm
Reach: 67" · 170 cm
Stance: Orthodox
Last fight: Jun 26, 2021
Cut risk: 56%

UFC fight history

ResultOpponentMethodDetailEvent

Shavkat Rakhmonov

Shavkat Rakhmonov

Welterweight · Submission · Rear Naked Choke · R2 · 2:10

UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Volkov · Jun 26, 2021

Rear Naked Choke

UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Volkov

Ismail Naurdiev

Ismail Naurdiev

Welterweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Santos · Feb 23, 2019

UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Santos

Bartosz Fabinski

Bartosz Fabinski

Welterweight · Submission · Guillotine Choke After Drop to Ground · R1 · 1:02

UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Ponzinibbio · Nov 17, 2018

Guillotine Choke After Drop to Ground

UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Ponzinibbio

Zak Cummings

Welterweight · Decision · Split · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Usman · May 19, 2018

UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Usman

Desmond Green

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders · Feb 3, 2018

UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders

Mads Burnell

Lightweight · Submission · North-South Choke · R3 · 1:26

UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Struve · Sep 2, 2017

North-South Choke

UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Struve

Joshua Burkman

Lightweight · Submission · North-South Choke · R1 · 1:42

UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum · Mar 11, 2017

North-South Choke

UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum

Gilbert Burns

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Cyborg vs. Lansberg · Sep 24, 2016

UFC Fight Night: Cyborg vs. Lansberg

JC Cottrell

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC on FOX: Holm vs. Shevchenko · Jul 23, 2016

UFC on FOX: Holm vs. Shevchenko

Valmir Lazaro

Lightweight · Decision · Split · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Gastelum · Nov 21, 2015

UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Gastelum

Kevin Lee

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Thatch · Feb 14, 2015

UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Thatch

Mairbek Taisumov

Mairbek Taisumov

Lightweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson 2 · Mar 23, 2014

UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson 2

Jesse Ronson

Lightweight · Decision · Split · R3 · 5:00

UFC 165: Jones vs. Gustafsson · Sep 21, 2013

UFC 165: Jones vs. Gustafsson

Paulo Thiago

Welterweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold · May 18, 2013

UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold

Outside the UFC

17-3across 20 bouts · 17 promotions · wins by 1 KO · 8 sub · 8 decMF · SVT · DDG · ACA 186 · ACA 175 +12

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
L	Evgeny Galochkin7-2	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	ACA 186	May 10, 2025
L	Renat Lyatifov40-24	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	ACA 175	May 17, 2024
L	Abubakar Vagaev24-4	Decision	Unanimous	R5	5:00	ACA 162	Sep 2, 2023
W	Stefan Negucic12-3	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	SBC 44	Sep 9, 2022
W	Leandro Silva23-8	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Shooto	Jun 2, 2012
W	Sergio Leal14-7	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	1:49	Jungle Fight 37	Mar 31, 2012
W	Andre Luis Leal Lobato24-9	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	IMC	Jun 10, 2010
W	Cesar Augusto Souza Damasceno11-9	Submission	Triangle Choke	R1	0:00	MF	Jun 26, 2008
W	Frederick Samurai0-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	MCF	Nov 10, 2007
W	Valter Roberto de Menezes10-7	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Predador FC 5	Apr 21, 2007
W	Gabriel Santos9-8	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	MVVT	Mar 22, 2007
W	Anderson Silva1-2	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	0:00	Predador FC 4	Jan 25, 2007
W	Edilson Florencio13-19	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	MF	Oct 5, 2006
W	Jose de Arimateia Mesquita dos Santos14-11	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	IC	Jul 1, 2006
W	Luis Neto0-5-1	Submission	Punches	R1	4:16	IMVT	Jun 11, 2005
W	Elias Monteiro7-18	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	1:17	SVT	Apr 14, 2004
W	Cleber Santana1-1	Submission	—	R2	2:22	SVT	Sep 12, 2003
W	Rogerio de Souza Gama6-12	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	3:47	DDG	Mar 21, 2003
W	Sergio Araujo de Oliveira0-1	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	2:13	DDG	Mar 21, 2003
W	Sandro Lyon0-1	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	3:58	OFVT	Oct 9, 2000

Non-UFC bouts (regional/other promotions) — shown for context only, excluded from Schedule Score, striking/grappling rates, and every UFC-scoped metric.

Career striking

OverallC45th

47%407 / 863

Striking accuracy

57%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min-0.13 differential

Landed2.38

Absorbed2.51

52%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

+4%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head67%43rd273
Body15%35th63
Leg17%51st71

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

Sig. strikes by position

73%Standing

Standing73%298
Clinch10%42
Ground16%67

Striking zones

Per-15-minute breakdown — where this fighter lands, and where they get hit.

UFC only

Michel Prazeres

Michel Prazeres

Landed per 15

Head

D

41st

23.9

41st

Body

D

27th

5.5

27th

Leg

C

48th

6.2

48th

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Absorbed per 15

Head

A

77th

20.4

77th

Body

C

44th

10.2

44th

Leg

C

51st

7.0

51st

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Career totals — landed / attempted

Landed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	23.9	273	668	41%
Body	5.5	63	108	58%
Leg	6.2	71	87	82%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	20.4	233	766	30%
Body	10.2	117	154	76%
Leg	7.0	80	93	86%

UFCStats career rates, per 15 minutes. Percentiles vs the division; absorbed is inverted so higher is better.

Pace & fade

Round-by-round work rate, and whether they fade.

UFC only

Michel Prazeres

Michel Prazeres

14 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 171 min

96%

R3 pace · 11 bouts

Prazeres fades (-6% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Prazeres keeps 96% of round-1 output by round 3 (11 bouts).

Michel Prazeres

Prazeres ▼ 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

What drives the pace · per round

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

Sig. strikes landed

Michel Prazeres

Prazereslanded / min

Takedown attempts

Michel Prazeres

Prazeresattempts / min

Control time

Michel Prazeres

Prazeres% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	6.5	2.5	1.9	0.80	42%	14
R2	5.2	1.9	2.3	0.68	32%	12
R3	5.8	2.8	3.5	0.70	22%	11

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.

Schedule Score

Opponent quality, ranked across the UFC. Recent fights weighted heavier.

UFC only

Michel Prazeres

Michel Prazeres

14 resolved UFC bouts

Schedule Score

37/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

D

37th

28%

37th

Win quality

A

81st

51%

81st

Opponent quality distribution

Every UFC bout, grouped by who the opponent was at the time.

2

1

1

1

3

6

Top-5Ranked #1–#5 at the time
Ranked 6–15Ranked #6–#15 at the time
Cross-div rankedRanked #1–#15 in another division at the time
Contender-level8+ UFC wins entering the bout, ≥.55 win rate
Building3+ UFC fights, ≥.40 win rate
UnprovenFewer than 3 fights, or sub-.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Top-5	2	0-2	0%
Ranked 6–15	1	1-0	100%
Cross-div ranked	1	1-0	100%
Contender-level	1	1-0	100%
Building	3	2-1	67%
Unproven	6	5-1	83%

Highest-quality opponents

Toughest opponents on the scheduleScore, scored at the time of the fight.

All bouts — opponent quality bout-by-bout

Res	Opponent	Tier	Score	Date
L	Shavkat Rakhmonov	Top-5	59	Jun 26, 2021
L	Ismail Naurdiev	Building	15	Feb 23, 2019
W	Bartosz Fabinski	Building	18	Nov 17, 2018
W	Zak Cummings	Contender-level	40	May 19, 2018
W	Desmond Green	Building	15	Feb 3, 2018
W	Mads Burnell	Unproven	8	Sep 2, 2017
W	Joshua Burkman	Unproven	12	Mar 11, 2017
W	Gilbert Burns	Cross-div ranked	36	Sep 24, 2016
W	JC Cottrell	Unproven	8	Jul 23, 2016
W	Valmir Lazaro	Unproven	8	Nov 21, 2015
L	Kevin Lee	Top-5	59	Feb 14, 2015
W	Mairbek Taisumov	Ranked 6–15	42	Mar 23, 2014
W	Jesse Ronson	Unproven	8	Sep 21, 2013
L	Paulo Thiago	Unproven	12	May 18, 2013

Per-bout quality scoring: champion = 100; same-division ranks 1–5 = 90 → 78 linear; ranks 6–15 = 75 → 60 linear; cross-division champion = 78; cross-division ranked = 45; title-fight challenger (no rank signal) = 50, bumped to 65 when opp had an elite career UFC record at the time. Unranked opponents are scored on UFC record-at-time (long-tenured vet 60, contender-level 45, established 30, building 18, unproven 8). P4P top-10 at time adds +5; top-3 adds +8 (capped at 100). The Schedule Score combines schedule strength (65%) and quality wins (35%), then is held toward a rookie baseline for fighters with limited UFC experience so a thin résumé reads honestly low.