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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Almabayev · Manel Kape vs Asu Almabayev
From the tape · 1 Mar 2025

Manel Kape vs Asu Almabayev

UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Almabayev · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Manel Kape beat Asu Almabayev

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 5
Clock
2:16
FlyweightMainReferee · Mike Beltran

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 AsuAlmabayevAlmaty
Flyweight5 rounds1 Mar 2025
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Almabayev.
  • Averages 4.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Kape.
23-7
Record
24-3
31
Age
31
+1″5' 5"
Height
5' 4"
+3″68″
Reach
65″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+48
UFC bouts
4
+35%3/560% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
Luanda
From
Almaty
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Manel Kape19 sig landed
HEAD79%15 of 33BODY16%3 of 6LEGS5%1 of 1
Asu Almabayev14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 20BODY43%6 of 7LEGS7%1 of 1
19 of 40
Sig.
strikes
14 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Manel Kape14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 23BODY14%2 of 2LEGS14%2 of 2
Asu Almabayev18 sig landed
HEAD39%7 of 27BODY33%6 of 8LEGS28%5 of 5
14 of 27
Sig.
strikes
18 of 40
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 32:16 of actionEnded 2:16
Manel Kape28 sig landed
HEAD79%22 of 39BODY21%6 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Asu Almabayev8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 8BODY12%1 of 2LEGS25%2 of 2
28 of 48
Sig.
strikes
8 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:29
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 9Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Manel Kape

Round
3
Clock
2:16
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Mike Beltran.

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
4.46 / 15m
1.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.62 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
42%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.50 / 15m

Asu Almabayev

4.46takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Manel Kape vs Asu Almabayev.

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