Yousri Belgaroui, 4 KOs in 5: Borralho has been warned

Djorden Santos, Noche UFC. Round 1. KO/TKO. Lights out. Yousri Belgaroui didn't even bother getting settled in, and his three previous wins all went to the third round. A kickboxer who came up through Glory and is learning to finish fast is bad news for everyone at middleweight.

🥊 Quick Profile

Name: Yousri Belgaroui
Record: 11-3-0
Claim to fame: Three-time Glory middleweight title challenger in kickboxing

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His last 5 results:

• ✅ Djorden Santos — KO/TKO (R1) Noche UFC
• ✅ Mansur Abdul-Malik — KO/TKO (R3) UFC Fight Night
• ✅ Azamat Bekoev — KO/TKO (R3) UFC Fight Night
• ✅ Taiga Iwasaki — KO/TKO (R3) Dana White's Contender Series
• ✅ Ahmed Sami — Unanimous decision Levels Fight League 11

Five wins, zero losses, four finishes. Clean record.

The Origin Story

Tunisian and Dutch roots. The "Tunisian-Dutch" comes from kickboxing, not wrestling mats. His proving ground was Glory, the big leagues of kickboxing, and he went after the middleweight belt three times.

Three-time challenger is a level few guys reach. You can see it in his UFC numbers:

• 6.4 strikes landed per minute
• 63.2% accuracy
• 2.3 strikes absorbed per minute

Almost three strikes thrown for every one he takes. That's the résumé of a guy who spent years dialing in distance under the lights of big shows, and it carries weight when a fight stays on its feet.

As for his age, hometown, or childhood stories, we don't have anything solid. So we won't make things up, and we'll look at what he does inside the cage.

From Levels to KO: Turning Up the Heat

It all started at Levels Fight League 11. Points win over Ahmed Sami. No fireworks, no fancy finish, just clean work.

Then things changed:

• Contender Series: Taiga Iwasaki, KO/TKO in R3.
• UFC Fight Night: Azamat Bekoev, KO/TKO in R3.
• UFC Fight Night: Mansur Abdul-Malik, KO/TKO in R3.
• Noche UFC: Djorden Santos, KO/TKO in R1.

The script keeps repeating. He applies pressure, wears his opponent down, then it breaks late in the fight. Three times in R3, a sign of solid cardio and a volume game that eventually pays off. Then Santos went down in R1: the finisher knows how to go fast too.

UFC finish rate: 100%. Official archetype: FINISHER. He hasn't won a single UFC fight on points yet.

Now he's stepping up. Facing Caio Borralho on the UFC 334 card (Gane vs. Hokit), he's performing in front of a much bigger crowd.

Useless Knowledge

• He has challenged for the Glory middleweight title in kickboxing three times.
• Three of his four recent finishes came in the third round.
• His takedown accuracy is 100%, but on a tiny sample: 0.3 attempts per 15 minutes. He almost never wrestles, he strikes.

The MMX Eye

The stat that matters for your ranking in La Ligue: his takedown defense of 66.7%. In practical terms, an opponent who shoots for a takedown gets it roughly one time in three. If his rival wants to grab him and put him on the mat, that's the weak spot.

His 64% strike defense is decent, but not airtight. And his UFC sample is still small, so keep some distance from these numbers.

As for Caio Borralho, we don't have any reliable data on hand for this piece, so we won't pretend to be experts. Here's the barstool pick, with conditions:

• The fight stays standing: Belgaroui has the ratio, the volume, and the kickboxing background. A late KO/TKO is very plausible, like his last three finishes in R3.
• The fight drags on the ground: his main weapon gets neutralized, and the pick becomes risky.

Safe pick? Not blindly. Check first how his opponent likes to fight, then choose your side.

Three times at the gates of the Glory belt, four KO/TKOs in his last five fights: Belgaroui is building his legend with patience, then with his fists. Do you think he'll win his next fight? Come make your picks and challenge your friends on MMX.

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