Zhang Weili vs Denise Gomes — fantasy matchup

If they fought

A statistical read on a fight that does not exist — no market, no booking, nothing to grade it against.

Zhang Weili 37% Denise Gomes 63%

Run as an unbooked fight, the numbers favour Denise Gomes at 63% — a lean, not a conviction.

Our two reads agree, and closely. Both land on Denise Gomes — 63% on the first, 55% on the second, 8 points apart.

The same read puts the chance it goes the full distance at 67%.

KO/TKO

26%

Submission

13%

Decision

61%

These figures come from the same statistical reads we run on real cards, with the betting market removed — there is no market on a fight nobody has booked. Nothing here is timestamped against a result, nothing here is graded, and none of it counts towards our public record. It is a thought experiment with real numbers behind it.

Tale of the tape

Zhang Weili vs Denise Gomes — the facts, side by side. ▲ marks the reach edge.

UFC 10-3	UFC record	UFC 7-2
26-4	Pro record	13-3
Magnum	Nickname	Dee
5' 4"	Height	5' 2"
63"	Reach	63"
Switch	Stance	Orthodox
37	Age	26
115 lbs.	Weight	115 lbs.
—	Nationality	Brazil
Handan, Hebei, China	Born in	São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Beijing, China	Fights out of	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
—	Camp	GAEA Project

Vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves.

Stat-by-stat

Zhang Weili (left) vs Denise Gomes (right) — career striking & grappling rates. The fighter ahead on each row is highlighted in their corner colour.

Strikes landed / min

4.66

4.4

Striking accuracy

52%

48%

Strikes absorbed / min

2.63

3.19

Striking defence

53%

52%

Takedowns / 15 min

1.96

1.38

Takedown accuracy

44%

34%

Takedown defence

63%

66%

Sub attempts / 15 min

0.5

0.7

Career averages from public UFC statistics. On “strikes absorbed / min”, fewer is better.

Fights that have happened between them

None.

Zhang Weili and Denise Gomes have never met in the UFC.

Every matchup on this page is a pairing that has never happened. That is how they are chosen: if these two had already met in the Octagon, there would be a real result to read instead, and this page would not exist.

The real fighters

Everything above is hypothetical. These are not.

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