
Thiago Santos
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Biography
Professional mixed martial artist competing in the UFC Middleweight & Light Heavyweight divisions.
Known For

The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil is an installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship-produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter. This season marked the first time the show was filmed, in its entirety, outside of Las Vegas, Nevada, and consisted of 12 episodes and a live finale in Brazil. The season tournament finale appeared on pay-per-view in June 2012. It started filming in February 2012 and was in Portuguese. The season was produced by Floresta, a Brazilian production company, and aired in Brazil on Globo. Each episode was broadcast over the Internet at TUF.tv each Sunday night and later aired on Fuel TV in a marathon leading up to the finale.
The Ultimate Fighter: Brasil

UFC 200: Tate vs. Nunes was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on July 9, 2016, at the T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. This event suffered a major hit only three days before it happened, as it was announced that Jones was pulled out by USADA due to a potential Anti-Doping Policy violation stemming from an out-of-competition sample collection on June 16. Cormier declared he would still fight if an opponent brought to him "made sense". It was announced that former UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva would replace Jones on less than two days' notice and face Cormier in a three-round non-title light heavyweight bout. Due to those major changes, the already scheduled UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship bout between then champion Miesha Tate and top contender Amanda Nunes was revealed as the new main event.
UFC 200: Tate vs. Nunes

UFC 259: Błachowicz vs. Adesanya was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on March 6, 2021 at the UFC Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States. The event was headlined by a UFC Light Heavyweight Championship bout between then champion Jan Błachowicz (also former KSW Light Heavyweight Champion) and former UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya.
UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya

UFC Fight Night 145: Błachowicz vs. Santos was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that was held on February 23, 2019 at O2 Arena in Prague, Czech Republic. A light heavyweight bout between former KSW Light Heavyweight Champion Jan Błachowicz and Thiago Santos served as the event headliner.
UFC Fight Night 145: Błachowicz vs. Santos

UFC Fight Night 80: Namajunas vs. VanZant was a mixed martial arts event held on December 10, 2015 at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event was headlined by a women's strawweight bout between Paige VanZant and Rose Namajunas.
UFC Fight Night 80: Namajunas vs. VanZant

UFC on ESPN 40: Santos vs. Hill was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on August 6, 2022, at the UFC Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States. A light heavyweight bout between former UFC Light Heavyweight title challenger Thiago Santos and Jamahal Hill headlined the event. The heavyweight and women's flyweight finals of The Ultimate Fighter: Team Peña vs. Team Nunes took place at the event.
UFC on ESPN 40: Santos vs. Hill

UFC 198: Werdum vs. Miocic was a mixed martial arts event held on May 14, 2016, at Arena da Baixada in Curitiba, Brazil. A UFC Heavyweight Championship bout between champion Fabrício Werdum and top contender Stipe Miocic served as the main event.
UFC 198: Werdum vs. Miocic

UFC 175: Weidman vs. Machida was a mixed martial arts event held on July 5, 2014, at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
UFC 175: Weidman vs. Machida
Bellator LVI was a mixed martial arts event held by Bellator Fighting Championships. It took place on October 29, 2011 at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas. The event was distributed live in prime time by MTV2.
Bellator 56

UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2 is an MMA event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on August 4, 2018, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2

UFC 213: Romero vs. Whittaker is a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on July 8, 2017 at T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.
UFC 213: Romero vs. Whittaker

UFC Fight Night 105: Lewis vs. Browne was a mixed martial arts event promoted by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on February 19, 2017, at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
UFC Fight Night 105: Lewis vs. Browne

UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that was held on July 6, 2019 at T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada. A UFC Light Heavyweight Championship bout between current two-time champion Jon Jones and Thiago Santos served as the event headliner. A UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship bout between the current champion Amanda Nunes (also current UFC Women's Featherweight Champion) and former champion Holly Holm served as the event co-headliner.
UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos

UFC Fight Night 119: Brunson vs. Machida was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on October 28, 2017, at Ginásio do Ibirapuera in São Paulo, Brazil.
UFC Fight Night 119: Brunson vs. Machida

UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on December 8, 2018 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A UFC Featherweight Championship bout between Max Holloway and Brian Ortega served as the event headliner.
UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega

UFC Fight Night 203: Santos vs. Ankalaev was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on March 12, 2022 at the UFC Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States. A light heavyweight bout between former UFC Light Heavyweight Championship challenger Thiago Santos and Magomed Ankalaev served as the event headliner.
UFC Fight Night 203: Santos vs. Ankalaev

UFC Fight Night 95: Cyborg vs. Lansberg was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on September 24, 2016, at Ginásio Nilson Nelson in Brasília, Brazil.
UFC Fight Night 95: Cyborg vs. Lansberg

PFL vs. Bellator: Champs was a mixed martial arts event co-promoted by Professional Fighters League and Bellator MMA that took place on February 24, 2024, at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
PFL vs. Bellator: Champs

UFC Fight Night 137: Santos vs. Anders was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on September 22, 2018 at Ginásio do Ibirapuera in São Paulo, Brazil. A light heavyweight bout between former UFC Light Heavyweight Championship challenger Glover Teixeira and Jimi Manuwa was expected to serve as the event headliner. However, Teixeira pulled out on August 14 due to a shoulder injury. He was replaced by Thiago Santos. In turn, Manuwa pulled out on September 16 due to a torn hamstring and was replaced by Eryk Anders.
UFC Fight Night 137: Santos vs. Anders

Thiago Santos vs. Johnny Walker (Light Heavyweight) Kevin Holland vs. Kyle Daukaus (Middleweight) Alex Oliveira vs. Niko Price (Welterweight) Misha Cirkunov vs. Krzysztof Jotko (Middleweight) Alexander Hernandez vs. Mike Breeden (Lightweight)