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Manel Kape

23-7-0
32y·5' 5"·68" reach·Southpaw
0:26
Control / 15m
time on top
+0.80
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
75%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
1.4
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

Tells

Non-traditional predictors we've tested against the record. Only the ones that fire on this fighter show up here.

The Odometer

Backwards

Crossed into the heaviest third of head strikes eaten for their age in December 2022, 82 head strikes before that night. Never-yet-stopped fighters carrying that kind of mileage took a first KO in 11.0% of fights; the lightest third ran 15.6%.

Read the research

Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 11 recorded bouts, 580 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 67%Body 19%Legs 15%
Position
Distance 89%Clinch 4%Ground 7%
And how often each lands
Head47%
Body76%
Legs89%
Distance54%
Clinch68%
Ground66%

How fights end

UFC bouts only, so these will not add up to the record above. Counts rather than rates: two knockouts in three wins is not a 67% finisher.

8Wins6 KO · 2 DEC
3Losses3 DEC

Control, bout by bout

Seconds spent controlling the opponent in each fight, oldest on the left. UFCStats records this per bout and never adds it up; this is what that looks like added up.

3%
Pantoja
4%
Nicolau
1%
Osbourne
1%
Zhumagulov
6%
Dvorak
5%
Santos
0%
Mokaev
0%
Silva
4%
Almabayev
2%
Royval
1%
Horiguchi

As the fight goes on

Which measure to show

Significant strikes landed, per minute fought. Every round is measured against round one, except rounds reached by fewer than 3 bouts, which are dimmed and left uncompared.

Landed / minvs R1Bouts
R13.92100%11
R24.58117%8
R36.05155%8

Only fights that reached a round count towards it, so later rounds are a smaller sample.

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min4.68
Strikes absorbed / min3.88
Striking accuracyof everything thrown55%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed57%
Takedowns / 15 min0.36
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land30%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed78%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.2
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together8.56
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 11 bouts11.3m

Earned Accuracy

How hard the opponents on this record were to hit at distance, and whether they beat it. Distance strikes only, so nobody gets credit for accuracy they picked up hammering someone already flat on the floor.

53.9%
Landed at range
955 thrown over 11 bouts
37.8%
Expected
against these opponents
+16.1pp
Gap
above expected
69.3%
Coverage
from real records
The fine print

Distance strikes only

Nothing thrown in the clinch or on the ground counts. Those land at about 72% and 71%, against 44% at distance, so a blended accuracy mostly measures where a fight happened. Rank the sport that way and its best strikers are all wrestlers.

One pass, not a rating

How much each opponent lets through is taken raw. It isn't adjusted for who they fought, so a fighter whose opponents all had soft schedules comes out looking better here than they are. Running it to convergence is a later job.

Coverage, and who gets ranked

Coverage is how much of the expected number came from the opponents' own records instead of the division average. Under 65% it's mostly the division talking, so the comparison gets hidden. Same for anyone under 5 qualifying bouts, or under 300 distance strikes of their own, which is where an accuracy still moves on a single exchange. Miss any of the three and you'll see what they landed, nothing else, and they stay out of any ranking.

Short records get pulled to the middle

An opponent who hasn't been shot at much gets dragged toward their division's average, and the drag fades as their record fills in. At 60 distance strikes faced, their own record and the division average count for the same.

Bout log

WKyoji HoriguchiJun 2026KO R30:10 ctrl19 str0 td
Significant strikes
19 of 56 · 34%
Total strikes
47 of 88 · 53%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:10
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 2:42
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 58%Body 11%Legs 32%
Position
Distance 68%Clinch 0%Ground 32%
This fight on UFCStats
WBrandon RoyvalDec 2025KO R10:04 ctrl17 str0 td
Significant strikes
17 of 23 · 74%
Total strikes
18 of 24 · 75%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:04
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 3:18
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 35%Body 29%Legs 35%
Position
Distance 88%Clinch 0%Ground 12%
This fight on UFCStats
WAsu AlmabayevMar 2025KO R30:29 ctrl61 str0 td
Significant strikes
61 of 115 · 53%
Total strikes
62 of 119 · 52%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:29
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 2:16
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 77%Body 18%Legs 5%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 15%Ground 10%
This fight on UFCStats
WBruno SilvaDec 2024KO R30:01 ctrl111 str0 td
Significant strikes
111 of 168 · 66%
Total strikes
111 of 168 · 66%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:01
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 1:57
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 64%Body 16%Legs 20%
Position
Distance 98%Clinch 2%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LMuhammad MokaevJul 2024U-DEC0:04 ctrl20 str0 td
Significant strikes
20 of 48 · 42%
Total strikes
34 of 67 · 51%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:04
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 80%Body 20%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WFelipe dos SantosSep 2023U-DEC0:45 ctrl112 str1 td
Significant strikes
112 of 182 · 62%
Total strikes
116 of 186 · 62%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
0:45
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 69%Body 21%Legs 10%
Position
Distance 82%Clinch 5%Ground 13%
This fight on UFCStats
WDavid DvorakDec 2022U-DEC0:57 ctrl58 str0 td
Significant strikes
58 of 119 · 49%
Total strikes
67 of 136 · 49%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:57
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 57%Body 33%Legs 10%
Position
Distance 76%Clinch 9%Ground 16%
This fight on UFCStats
WZhalgas ZhumagulovDec 2021KO R10:03 ctrl53 str0 td
Significant strikes
53 of 72 · 74%
Total strikes
54 of 73 · 74%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:03
Knockdowns
2
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:02
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 74%Body 9%Legs 17%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WOde OsbourneAug 2021KO R10:02 ctrl19 str0 td
Significant strikes
19 of 29 · 66%
Total strikes
19 of 29 · 66%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:02
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:44
Flying Knee Head
Target
Head 74%Body 11%Legs 16%
Position
Distance 84%Clinch 0%Ground 16%
This fight on UFCStats
LMatheus NicolauMar 2021S-DEC0:38 ctrl61 str0 td
Significant strikes
61 of 150 · 41%
Total strikes
73 of 165 · 44%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:38
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 61%Body 16%Legs 23%
Position
Distance 95%Clinch 2%Ground 3%
This fight on UFCStats
LAlexandre PantojaFeb 2021U-DEC0:25 ctrl49 str2 td
Significant strikes
49 of 91 · 54%
Total strikes
51 of 94 · 54%
Takedowns
2 of 7 · 29%
Control
0:25
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 73%Body 16%Legs 10%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

Numbers from UFCStats. Control time and strike placement are summed from each bout, everything else is as published.