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Luana Santos vs.
Casey O'Neill

Two full careers, measured against each man's own division and against each other — the tape, the read, and every number behind them.

6-1-0 Luana Santos · UFC
6-2-0 Casey O'Neill · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

Frame, age, layoff and recent form — green marks the edge on each line.

6-1-0
UFC record
6-2-0
Women's Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Flyweight
26
AgeΔ 2 yrs
28
5'6"
HeightΔ 0"
5'6"
67"
ReachΔ 2"
69"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1.5
Layoff (months)Δ 2.8 mo
4.3
WWWLW
Last 5 (newest first)
WWLLW
The read

What the numbers say.

Scouting notes, auto-generated — only stats deviating more than 25% from the division median make this list. No narratives, just deviations.

Luana Santos is a submission threat — 0.97 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.34 Women's Bantamweight norm.
Luana Santos hunts takedowns — 2.14 per 15 minutes, vs a 0.91 Women's Bantamweight norm.
Casey O'Neill is a submission threat — 0.70 attempts per 15 minutes, vs a 0.32 Women's Flyweight norm.
Level of competition

Who did they actually beat?

Full-career records re-graded by the tier of opposition — the same grading the Contender Series pick model uses. Records built on tier-4 competition are worth less than records built on killers.

Luana Santos

Full career not yet synced for Luana Santos — tier grading appears once their record documentation lands (refreshes weekly).

In the UFC: 3-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.1 wins over .500

Casey O'Neill

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 62
Tier 3 — regional circuit 50

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.57 · 6 tier-1/2 wins · 6 finish wins over 13 documented bouts

In the UFC: 2-0 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +0.0 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

Career totals; norms are the medians of each man's own division.

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

1952.53/min · norm 3.56
Sig. strikes landed
6777.89/min · norm 3.91
1892.45/min · norm 3.51
Sig. strikes absorbed
4755.53/min · norm 3.81
53.6%norm 46.65%
Striking accuracy
52.2%norm 44.9%
64.4%norm 52.45%
Striking defense
57.6%norm 55.95%
00.00/15 · norm 0.08
Knockdowns
10.17/15 · norm 0.09

Where the fight happens (share of sig. strike attempts)

Luana Santos

Distance 89.3% (norm 80.3%) · Clinch 9.3% (norm 9.7%) · Ground 1.4% (norm 7.5%)

Casey O'Neill

Distance 87.0% (norm 87.6%) · Clinch 3.2% (norm 7.3%) · Ground 9.8% (norm 4.9%)

What they throw (share of sig. strike attempts by target)

Luana Santos

Head 71.7% (norm 75.2%) · Body 20.9% (norm 14.3%) · Legs 7.4% (norm 8.8%)

Casey O'Neill

Head 85.4% (norm 78.1%) · Body 9.3% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 5.2% (norm 7.7%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

Green ≥ division median, red below. UFCStats tracks position and target as separate splits.

Zone Santos L/AAccWomen's Bantamweight med O'Neill L/AAccWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 174 / 325 53.5% 38.3% 550 / 1129 48.7% 39.9%
In the clinch 17 / 34 50.0% 73.3% 31 / 41 75.6% 73.3%
On the ground 4 / 5 too few to rate 70.8% 96 / 127 75.6% 74.7%
BY TARGET
To the head 115 / 261 44.1% 37.7% 519 / 1108 46.8% 34.9%
To the body 57 / 76 75.0% 70.0% 94 / 121 77.7% 69.5%
To the legs 23 / 27 85.2% 80.9% 64 / 68 94.1% 82.6%

Zones with fewer than 25 attempts are marked "too few to rate". Each fighter is measured against the median of leaderboard-eligible fighters in his own division (Women's Bantamweight: 40 fighters · Women's Flyweight: 46 fighters).

What lands on them Opponents' accuracy against each man

Green ≤ division median — harder to hit than the typical man in his division.

Zone vs Santos L/AOpp accWomen's Bantamweight med vs O'Neill L/AOpp accWomen's Flyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 149 / 478 31.2% 41.3% 383 / 1004 38.1% 38.8%
In the clinch 30 / 43 69.8% 74.7% 63 / 80 78.8% 74.1%
On the ground 10 / 10 too few to rate 74.2% 29 / 36 80.6% 73.4%
BY TARGET
To the head 123 / 426 28.9% 38.1% 353 / 975 36.2% 35.3%
To the body 43 / 67 64.2% 73.2% 88 / 108 81.5% 69.0%
To the legs 23 / 38 60.5% 80.9% 34 / 37 91.9% 78.7%
Grappling

The ground war.

Takedowns, control and submissions — career totals with each man's per-minute rates against his division norm.

1137.9% acc · 2.14/15 · norm 0.91
Takedowns landed
834.8% acc · 1.40/15 · norm 1.02
685.7% def · norm 62.5%
Takedowns stopped
1470.0% def · norm 58.95%
42:3355.2% of cage time · norm 26.55%
Control time
21:3025.0% of cage time · norm 19.15%
4:400:54 per 15 · norm 3:19
Time under control
10:031:45 per 15 · norm 3:03
50.97/15 · norm 0.34
Submission attempts
40.70/15 · norm 0.32

Bars compare the two men's rates (per-minute / per-15 figures), not raw totals — O'Neill has more cage time on record.

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