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Events · UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland · Manel Kape vs Felipe dos Santos
From the tape · 9 Sep 2023

Manel Kape vs Felipe dos Santos

UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Result

Manel Kape beat Felipe dos Santos

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Greg Kleynjans

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.

Red corner ManelKape“StarBoy”Xtreme Couture · Luanda
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Felipe dosSantos“Lipe Detona”Chute Boxe Diego Lima · Maceio, Alagoas
Flyweight3 rounds9 Sep 2023
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
23-7
Record
8-3
29
Age
−7 yr22
5' 5"
Height
+2″5' 7"
68″
Reach
+2″70″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Xtreme Couture
Gym
Chute Boxe Diego Lima
Luanda
From
Maceio, Alagoas
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

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

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Kape
Manel Kape36 sig landed
HEAD50%18 of 35BODY36%13 of 15LEGS14%5 of 5
Felipe dos Santos32 sig landed
HEAD41%13 of 65BODY41%13 of 20LEGS19%6 of 11
36 of 55
Sig.
strikes
32 of 96
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:28
Control
0:08
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 28Clinch 2Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kape firstEric Colón10–9David Lethaby10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Manel Kape37 sig landed
HEAD70%26 of 46BODY19%7 of 8LEGS11%4 of 7
Felipe dos Santos35 sig landed
HEAD54%19 of 69BODY26%9 of 22LEGS20%7 of 11
37 of 61
Sig.
strikes
35 of 102
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 32Clinch 3Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kape firstEric Colón10–9David Lethaby10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Manel Kape39 sig landed
HEAD85%33 of 56BODY10%4 of 7LEGS5%2 of 3
Felipe dos Santos32 sig landed
HEAD66%21 of 81BODY19%6 of 18LEGS16%5 of 7
39 of 66
Sig.
strikes
32 of 106
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:17
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 32Clinch 1Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Kape firstEric Colón10–9David Lethaby9–10Clemens Werner9–10

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Greg Kleynjans
Manel KapeFelipe dos Santos
Official totals — Manel Kape first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide29–28

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 21 scored, Manel Kape first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Edwin Ayala Sherdog.com30–27
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com30–27
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv30–27
Bloody Elbow.com30–27
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com30–27
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com30–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Jake Noecker Cageside Press30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Nick Baldwin theScore29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Kape · 52%29-28 Kape · 30%29-28 dos Santos · 14%30-28 Kape · 2%30-26 Kape · 1%

122 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.

Manel Kape

0.40takedowns / 15 min
0.40 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
1.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
30%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Felipe dos Santos

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Manel Kape↑ +1.8pp
open 75.5%close 77.2%
Felipe dos Santos↓ −1.8pp
open 24.5%close 22.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Manel Kape opened at 75.5% and closed at 77.2% (+1.8pp), with Felipe dos Santos 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
Manel Kape-375-42675.5%77.2%+1.8pp
Felipe dos Santos29031924.5%22.8%−1.8pp
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% · dated 2023-09-10 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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