Giva Santana
18–3 · 21 recorded bouts · 2005–2013
18–3
Giva Santana finished 94% of 18 wins inside the distance — the 86th percentile for middleweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Giva Santana — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-11-25
How this record is compiled
- Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2025-11-25. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one. - A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
- A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
- Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 244 middleweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Bout record
Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | L | Jason Butcher | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Brendan Sequin | Submission | 2 |
| 2012 | L | Bruno Santos | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Darryl Cobb | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Doug Marshall | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Anthony Ruiz | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Lodune Sincaid | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Radmir Gabdullin | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Min Suk Heo | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Jaime Jara | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Matt Lucas | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Jaime Fletcher | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Aram Ghukasyan | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Chris Ledwidge | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Michele Verginelli | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Boris Jonstomp | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Mavrick Harvey | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Jun Soo Lim | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Edwin Aguilar | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Zamirbek Syrgabayev | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Noriki Miyashita | Decision | 1 |
3 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Giva Santana — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-11-25
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 71″ (180.3 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Middleweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 14 of 21 dated bouts | |
| Country | Brazil |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Giva Santana, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
18–3
21 bouts on record
Finish rate
94%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 86th percentile
The career, bout by bout
21 recorded bouts from 2005 to 2013. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
9y
2005–2013
Longest unbeaten run
10
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2005
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
21
21 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Giva Santana's record?
- 18–3 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 21 bouts individually.
- Does a no contest change a record here?
- No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
- What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
- This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.
Where this record leads
The 244 middleweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Santana sits inside.
244 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA14 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsGiva Santana went 10 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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