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Fight Report
Pre-fight analysis · prediction vs result
Mairon Santos withdrew, and the UFC handed Nathaniel Wood an unbeaten 24-year-old with seven finishes in eight wins and five days to prepare.
Nathaniel Wood spent this camp preparing for Mairon Santos. He will fight Pavel Andrusca instead — a 24-year-old Moldovan out of the UAE Warriors circuit who signed with the UFC and took the booking on five days' notice, and who arrives 8-0 with seven finishes and first-round knockouts in each of his last two fights. That is the whole fight in one sentence, and it cuts both ways. Wood is the know…
Wood (23-6) is on a four-fight UFC win streak, every one of them a unanimous or split decision — Keita in March, Delgado in October, Charriere in March 2025 and Pineda in July 2024. His last defeat was a decision to Muhammad Naimov in October 2023. Composite 50.6, momentum 60.0, chin 74.0. The 7.39 volume score is what wins him fights; the 1.57 striking score is why they go to the cards.
Andrusca (8-0) is a UFC debutant with no record in this database, so every rating attached to him would be invented. What is verifiable from outside it: seven of his eight wins came inside the distance, the last two by first-round knockout, he fought most recently under the UAE Warriors banner, and he accepted this fight on five days' notice as a replacement for Mairon Santos. He is 24. That is the sum of what anyone honestly knows.
Five days' notice for a UFC debutant against a fighter with a full camp
Andrusca's two consecutive first-round knockouts against Wood's 74.0 chin
Wood's 7.39 volume score in rounds two and three, where a short-notice debutant is most exposed
Wood's 3.93 grappling as an off-ramp if the striking exchanges turn ugly
Wood's 31.3 quality-of-victory — he has not beaten a puncher of this description recently
Andrusca is a blank row in the database; every rating comparison here is one-sided by necessity, not because he is worse
Wood was game-planning for Mairon Santos, a very different fighter, until five days ago
A first-round knockout artist only needs one clean opening, and Wood fights at close quarters by choice
This Fight — Statistics
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Combatrics radar — 6 fighting dimensions scored 0–10
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This fight · per-round breakdown