Daniel Santos
BrazilDaniel Santos, “Willycat”, is a Featherweight from Brazil with an official record of 14-3. Cage Brothers holds 15 of those bouts: 12 wins and 3 losses, the wins coming 7 by knockout, 1 by submission and 4 by decision. The most recent bout on file is a second-round knockout loss to Dooho Choi at UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Costa on 16 May 2026.
| Date | Opponent | Result | Method | Round | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | Dooho Choi | LOSS | KOPunch | R2 · 4:29 | UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Costa |
| Oct 4, 2025 | JooSang Yoo | WIN | KOPunch | R2 · 0:21 | UFC 320: Ankalaev vs. Pereira 2 |
| May 10, 2025 | JeongYeong Lee | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena |
| Jun 3, 2023 | Johnny Munoz | WIN | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Kara-France vs. Albazi |
| Oct 1, 2022 | John Castaneda | WIN | KOKnee | R2 · 4:28 | UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Yan |
| Apr 9, 2022 | Julio Arce | LOSS | DECDecision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie |
| Dec 14, 2019 | Zhunus Nizambek | WIN | SUBSubmission (Armbar) | R1 | WEF 91 / Brave CF 32: Brave Combat Federation |
| Jun 28, 2019 | Henrique Fantini | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R1 · 2:21 | Future FC 6: Cado vs. Giacomo |
| Jan 26, 2019 | Murad Kalamov | LOSS | DECDecision - Unanimous | R3 | ACA 91: Absolute Championship Akhmat |
| Feb 16, 2018 | Dukvaha Astamirov | WIN | DECDecision - Majority | R3 · 5:00 | ACB 80: Tumenov vs. Burrell |
| Sep 11, 2016 | Cleverson Silva | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R1 | Fighten: Decagon MMA Championship 3 |
| Apr 2, 2016 | Jose Alexandre | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R3 | Thunder Fight 6: Negao vs. Silverio |
| Oct 6, 2015 | Lucas Eurico | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R2 | Copa Euro |
| Mar 30, 2014 | Jose Mauro Dos Santos | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R2 · - | FA: Fatality Arena 6 |
Wins, losses and draws are Daniel Santos’s official record. Everything else is counted from the 14 bouts we hold a full result for — method, round and time. Per-fight striking and grappling statistics are not published in our data source, so they are not shown.
Daniel Santos’s record, in numbers
Daniel Santos’s official record is 14-3. Every figure on this page is counted instead from the 15 bouts Cage Brothers holds a result for — 12 wins, 3 losses — because 2 bouts from the official record are not in the history we hold.
The 12 wins break down as 7 by knockout, 1 by submission and 4 by decision — 8 of 12 inside the distance, a finish rate of 67%. Across the 14 of 15 bouts with a recorded finishing round, the average bout lasted 8 minutes 41 seconds.
Daniel Santos has been stopped once in the 15 bouts on file, by knockout — 7% of them.
The 15 bouts Cage Brothers holds a result for include no title fights and no main events. Three of them have come since September 2024.
Set against the 553 Featherweight fighters Cage Brothers holds eight or more bouts for, Daniel Santos has a finish rate above 49% of them, a record of avoiding stoppage above 78% of them and a two-year bout count above 81% of them. The comparison is made inside the division rather than across the whole roster, because how often a division finishes depends heavily on what it weighs.
Daniel Santos is listed at 5ft 7in with a reach of 67in, fights orthodox and is 31, born 11 March 1995.
These figures are recomputed from Daniel Santos’s bout history each time results are synced, so they follow the record rather than a fixed snapshot.