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Daniil Donchenko

Welterweight · REAL v1.0 (registered) #12; v1.1 (shadow) #12

Descriptive profile. The resume rank is what has been earned; these statistics are context, not a prediction. A test on Oct 20, 2026 found that career statistics add nothing reliable to age, layoff and experience as predictors of the next result (experiments/REGISTER.md, EXP-2026-10-20-14).

Weight band 12-12: the 10th to 90th percentile of his position across weight vectors drawn near the 70/30 weights (the position does not depend on the weights). Rating 1,649, deviation 185: measured from 4 UFC bouts; a one-bout newcomer sits near 290.

Age 25 (born 2001-08-04) · Height 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) · Reach 71 in (180 cm) · Stance Orthodox · 57 days since last bout (2026-09-05) · Last five 4-0 · Streak W4

Why he is ranked here

Rating 1,649 is the division's 17th highest of 76 board fighters; the ledger stands at +0.2 (+0.2 from quality wins; losses count for three years); 1 quality win in 15 years, 0 over top-10 opponents; no form penalty (4-0 last five). Score +0.33 = +0.27 (rating term, 70% weight) +0.06 (ledger term, 30% weight) -0.00 (form penalty); score order put him at #12.

TermValueDetail
Score+0.3370% rating term + 30% ledger term - form penalty
Rating term+0.27resume rating 1,649, scaled against the division's interdecile range
Ledger term+0.06quality ledger +0.2: +0.2 QW +0.0 proof -0.0 blowout -0.0 weak
Form penalty0.00last five 4-0
Quality wins, 15 years10 over top-10 opponents, 0 over top-15
Placementscore order #12v1.0 (registered)
Shadow board v1.1#12score +0.33; score order #12

Rules, weights and worked examples: methodology.

All 4 UFC bouts

DateEventOpponentOpp. official rankResultMethodRoundModel p
2026-09-05UFC Fight Night: Hooker vs. ParnassePunahele SorianounrankedWunanimous decision3 (5:00)61%
2026-06-27UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. TorresTheodor BerggrenunrankedWKO/TKO2 (1:35)69%
2026-02-07UFC Fight Night: Bautista vs. OliveiraAlex MoronounrankedWunanimous decision3 (5:00)69%
2025-09-13Noche UFC: Lopes vs. SilvaRodrigo SezinandounrankedWKO/TKO1 (4:27)50%

Opp. official rank = the UFC media-panel rank of the opponent on the date (C champion, #1 to #15, unranked; n/a before Feb 2013 or where no official board existed). Model p = the predictive model's pre-fight win chance for him (frozen performance-adjusted Elo; bouts before 2020 were in its tuning sample). Linked opponents have a profile.

Career statistics

Through 2026-10-31, UFC bouts only. Percentile = share of the 76 board fighters at Welterweight at or below this value; high is a position in the division, not a verdict.

Output
Significant strikes landed per minute7.14(92nd percentile at Welterweight)
Significant strike accuracy62%(95th percentile at Welterweight)
Knockdowns scored per 15 minutes1.83(89th percentile at Welterweight)
Share of wins by finish50%(44th percentile at Welterweight)
Defence and damage
Significant strikes absorbed per minute2.14(13th percentile at Welterweight)
Significant strike defence73%(97th percentile at Welterweight)
Knockdowns suffered per 15 minutes0.00(42nd percentile at Welterweight)
Significant strikes absorbed, career88(29th percentile at Welterweight)
KO/TKO losses0(37th percentile at Welterweight)
Submission losses0(66th percentile at Welterweight)
KO/TKO losses per bout over 10 years, each weighted down by the finisher's danger0.000(39th percentile at Welterweight)
Grappling
Takedowns landed per 15 minutes0.37(33rd percentile at Welterweight)
Takedown defence67%(54th percentile at Welterweight)
Share of cage time in control11%(38th percentile at Welterweight)
Share of significant strikes landed in the clinch or on the ground22%(45th percentile at Welterweight)
Stylestriker (1.5 takedown attempts per 15 min; 11% control)
Career stage
Age25.2(3rd percentile at Welterweight)
Age at UFC debut24.1(11th percentile at Welterweight)
Years since UFC debut1.1(25th percentile at Welterweight)
UFC bouts4(39th percentile at Welterweight)
Cage time, minutes41(39th percentile at Welterweight)
Bouts per year, last three years3.5(100th percentile at Welterweight)
Days since last bout57(25th percentile at Welterweight)

Board position since Oct 2023

C1020304020252026Oct 2023Oct 20262025-09-26: #26, Welterweight2025-10-03: #26, Welterweight2025-10-10: #26, Welterweight2025-10-17: #26, Welterweight2025-10-24: #26, Welterweight2025-10-31: #26, Welterweight2025-11-07: #25, Welterweight2025-11-14: #24, Welterweight2025-11-21: #28, Welterweight2025-12-05: #29, Welterweight2025-12-12: #29, Welterweight2026-01-23: #30, Welterweight2026-01-30: #30, Welterweight2026-02-06: #31, Welterweight2026-02-20: #21, Welterweight2026-02-27: #22, Welterweight2026-03-06: #22, Welterweight2026-03-13: #22, Welterweight2026-03-20: #23, Welterweight2026-03-27: #23, Welterweight2026-04-03: #23, Welterweight2026-04-10: #23, Welterweight2026-04-17: #23, Welterweight2026-04-24: #23, Welterweight2026-05-01: #23, Welterweight2026-05-08: #24, Welterweight2026-05-15: #26, Welterweight2026-05-29: #25, Welterweight2026-06-05: #24, Welterweight2026-06-13: #23, Welterweight2026-06-19: #23, Welterweight2026-06-26: #23, Welterweight2026-07-10: #17, Welterweight2026-07-17: #17, Welterweight2026-07-24: #17, Welterweight2026-07-31: #17, Welterweight2026-08-07: #18, Welterweight2026-08-14: #18, Welterweight2026-08-21: #17, Welterweight2026-08-28: #17, Welterweight2026-09-04: #15, Welterweight2026-09-11: #11, Welterweight2026-09-18: #11, Welterweight2026-09-25: #11, Welterweight2026-09-26: #11, Welterweight2026-10-03: #11, Welterweight2026-10-10: #11, Welterweight2026-10-17: #11, Welterweight2026-10-24: #11, Welterweight2026-10-31: #12, Welterweight#12

Position on the registered v1.0 board at each weekly snapshot (C = title holder or reserved, drawn at the top; lower is better). Absent from 82 of 132 snapshots (gaps in the line).

Predictive rating by bout

1,5501,6001,6501,7001,7501,8002026Sep 2025Oct 20262025-09-13: 1,594 (W vs Rodrigo Sezinando)2026-02-07: 1,637 (W vs Alex Morono)2026-06-27: 1,696 (W vs Theodor Berggren)2026-09-05: 1,750 (W vs Punahele Soriano)1,750

Rating after each UFC bout from the frozen predictive model (performance-adjusted Elo, data/processed/elo_history.csv; a debut starts at 1,500). The resume rating's history is not stored, so this is the predictive line, which is a different number from the resume rating in the header.

Trajectory

Recent performances run about 71 points ahead of the rating: fighters this age typically run 48 points ahead of their rating, and his own recent results put him a further 23 points ahead.

ComponentPointsMeaning
Age component+48what fighters aged 25.2 typically run relative to their rating (population curve, all UFC bouts since 2011)
Own recent results+23his recency-weighted mean and trend over 4 bouts, shrunk toward zero; trend -0 points a year
Combined+71the rating's likely distance from his current performance level, in rating points
Readingahead of ratingahead of, in line with (within 30 points), or behind the rating

Performance relative to the rating, by age

-1.0-0.5+0.0+0.5+1.0232425262025-09-13 (age 24.1): W vs Rodrigo Sezinando, residual +0.532026-02-07 (age 24.5): W vs Alex Morono, residual +0.512026-06-27 (age 24.9): W vs Theodor Berggren, residual +0.352026-09-05 (age 25.1): W vs Punahele Soriano, residual +0.27+0.10

Each dot is one decided UFC bout at his age then: the performance score minus the rating's expectation, on the score's own scale from -1 to +1 (filled = win, hollow = loss; above zero is better than the rating implied; a finish as a slight favourite is about +0.45). The dashed line is the population curve for all fighters; the solid line is this fighter's own fitted level and trend as of the data date, weighted toward recent bouts. One unit sustained over many bouts corresponds to about 695 rating points; a single bout's residual is noisy.

Held-out evidence (walk-forward 2016 to 2026, EXP-2026-10-21-01): the age curve held in every test year; the individual component is a weak signal (correlation 0.06 with the next bout's residual; among fighters aged 33 or over, the lowest predicted quartile won 38% of next bouts against 53% expected, the highest 48% against 52%) and adds nothing to bout prediction beyond the shadow model. No board uses any of it: the rankings answer who has earned the place, not who wins next (EXP-2026-10-20-09). Method: src/mmalab/decline.py; settings: config/decline.yaml (expectation from the resume rating; one unit of residual is about 695 rating points).

Context flags

Descriptive only. Each line is a population fact about fighters like him, not a forecast for him; the register entries hold the measurements.

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