Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos
18 UFC Fights | 61% Win Rate | 5 Finishes (45%)
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos UFC Record & Pro MMA Record
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos is 11-6-1 in the UFC across 18 fights, with 4 wins by knockout, 1 by submission and 6 by decision. The full pro MMA record is 26-10-1, 15-4 of it outside the UFC. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos competes at welterweight as an orthodox complete fighter, standing 5'11" with a 73" reach at 39 years old. The last bout was a win over Jesse Taylor by knockout in Jun 2026.
Best attribute: striking volume (significant strikes landed per minute) — 77th percentile among 280 welterweight fighters (4.1 sig. strikes/min).
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos's UFC win rate is 61% (11 of 18 fights), and 45% of those wins came by finish. Zaleski dos Santos averages 0.7 takedowns per fight at 21% accuracy and stops 64% of opponents' takedown attempts.
- Pro MMA Record
- 26-10-1
- UFC Record
- 11-6-1
- Height
- 5'11"
- Reach
- 73"
- Age
- 39
- Stance
- Orthodox
- Last Fight
- W vs Jesse Taylor · TKO (Punches) · Jun 2026
Pro record from Sherdog (snapshot 2026-07-03) plus every UFC bout since; UFC record from UFCStats.
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos's Last 5 Fights
Zaleski dos Santos is 1-3-1 in the last five UFC fights.
- Loss vs Neil Magny · KO/TKO · R2 4:39 · UFC Fight Night: Taira vs. Park · Aug 2025
- Loss vs Chidi Njokuani · KO/TKO · R2 2:19 · UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2 · Mar 2025
- Win vs Zachary Scroggin · KO/TKO · R1 1:15 · UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Prates · Nov 2024
- Loss vs Randy Brown · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier · Jun 2024
- Draw vs Rinat Fakhretdinov · Draw · R3 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Lewis · Nov 2023
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Round-by-Round Output
Sig. Strikes Landed per Round — Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos vs Average
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos lands 14.9 strikes in R1 but 23.3 in R3+ — output increases in later rounds.
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos's UFC Fight History
18 UFC fights on record (11-6-1), most recent first.
| Result | Opponent | Method | Rd · Time | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L | Neil Magny | KO/TKO | R2 · 4:39 | UFC Fight Night: Taira vs. Park | 2025-08-02 |
| L | Chidi Njokuani | KO/TKO | R2 · 2:19 | UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2 | 2025-03-15 |
| W | Zachary Scroggin | KO/TKO | R1 · 1:15 | UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Prates | 2024-11-09 |
| L | Randy Brown | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier | 2024-06-01 |
| D/NC | Rinat Fakhretdinov | Draw | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Lewis | 2023-11-04 |
| W | Abubakar Nurmagomedov | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Kara-France vs. Albazi | 2023-06-03 |
| W | Benoit Saint Denis | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira | 2021-10-30 |
| L | Muslim Salikhov | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 251: Usman vs. Masvidal | 2020-07-11 |
| W | Aleksei Kunchenko | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Lee vs. Oliveira | 2020-03-14 |
| L | Li Jingliang | KO/TKO | R3 · 4:51 | UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Zhang | 2019-08-31 |
| W | Curtis Millender | Submission | R1 · 2:35 | UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Dos Santos | 2019-03-09 |
| W | Luigi Vendramini | KO/TKO | R2 · 1:20 | UFC Fight Night: Marreta vs. Anders | 2018-09-22 |
| W | Sean Strickland | KO/TKO | R1 · 3:40 | UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington | 2018-05-12 |
| W | Max Griffin | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Machida | 2017-10-28 |
| W | Lyman Good | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Weidman vs. Gastelum | 2017-07-22 |
| W | Keita Nakamura | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson | 2016-10-01 |
| W | Omari Akhmedov | KO/TKO | R3 · 3:03 | UFC on FOX: Teixeira vs Evans | 2016-04-16 |
| L | Nicolas Dalby | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Alves | 2015-05-30 |
How Santos Ranks at Welterweight
Percentile among the 280 welterweight fighters in our database (higher is better; absorbed strikes are inverted).
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