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Events · UFC 234: Adesanya vs. Silva · Kai Kara-France vs Raulian Paiva
From the tape · 9 Feb 2019

Kai Kara-France vs Raulian Paiva

UFC 234: Adesanya vs. Silva · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Result

Kai Kara-France beat Raulian Paiva

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

KK
Red corner KaiKara-France“Don't Blink”City Kickboxing · Auckland
VSOn the tape
RP
Blue corner RaulianPaivaSantana, Amapa
Flyweight3 rounds9 Feb 2019
25-12
Record
21-5
25
Age
−2 yr23
5' 4"
Height
+4″5' 8"
69″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Auckland
From
Santana, Amapa
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Kai Kara-France12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 30BODY42%5 of 7LEGS8%1 of 2
Raulian Paiva16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 29BODY25%4 of 5LEGS25%4 of 5
12 of 39
Sig.
strikes
16 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:16
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Kai Kara-France21 sig landed
HEAD67%14 of 51BODY14%3 of 3LEGS19%4 of 4
Raulian Paiva25 sig landed
HEAD52%13 of 49BODY24%6 of 13LEGS24%6 of 6
21 of 58
Sig.
strikes
25 of 68
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:03
Control
1:23
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 5
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kai Kara-France25 sig landed
HEAD52%13 of 53BODY36%9 of 14LEGS12%3 of 4
Raulian Paiva26 sig landed
HEAD58%15 of 62BODY42%11 of 15LEGS0%0 landed
25 of 71
Sig.
strikes
26 of 77
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:18
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Official totals — Kai Kara-France first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Garth Harriman1.9 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Christopher Shen29–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 19 scored, Kai Kara-France first · unofficial

Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Adam Martin Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Straus MMAJA29–28
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Nolan King FloCombat28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Paiva · 74%29-28 Kara-France · 16%30-27 Paiva · 7%30-27 Kara-France · 1%30-29 Kara-France · 1%

81 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Kai Kara-France

0.56takedowns / 15 min
0.56 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.65 / 15m
1.87 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.83 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
23%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Raulian Paiva

0.65takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Kai Kara-France↑ +3.0pp
open 66.1%close 69.1%
Raulian Paiva↓ −3.0pp
open 33.9%close 30.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kai Kara-France opened at 66.1% and closed at 69.1% (+3.0pp), with Raulian Paiva moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Kai Kara-France-245-25566.1%69.1%+3.0pp
Raulian Paiva17521233.9%30.9%−3.0pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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