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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: Taira vs. Park · Rafael Estevam vs Felipe Bunes
From the tape · 2 Aug 2025

Rafael Estevam vs Felipe Bunes

UFC Fight Night: Taira vs. Park · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Rafael Estevam beat Felipe Bunes

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Kerry Hatley

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 RafaelEstevam“Macapa”Nova Uniao · Macapa, Amapa
VSOn the tape
Blue corner FelipeBunes“Felipinho”Pitbull Brothers · Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Flyweight3 rounds2 Aug 2025
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 3.8 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Bunes.
14-1
Record
14-9
−7 yr28
Age
35
+1″5' 8"
Height
5' 7"
69″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
2
0/20% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Nova Uniao
Gym
Pitbull Brothers
Macapa, Amapa
From
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
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 action1 sub attempt
Rafael Estevam8 sig landed
HEAD12%1 of 9BODY25%2 of 5LEGS62%5 of 5
Felipe Bunes7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 6BODY29%2 of 4LEGS57%4 of 4
8 of 19
Sig.
strikes
7 of 14
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:48
Control
0:03
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Estevam firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Rafael Estevam17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 25BODY18%3 of 9LEGS6%1 of 1
Felipe Bunes9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 13BODY22%2 of 3LEGS11%1 of 1
17 of 35
Sig.
strikes
9 of 17
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:01
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Estevam firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Rafael Estevam8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 16BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Felipe Bunes10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 20BODY10%1 of 4LEGS10%1 of 1
8 of 16
Sig.
strikes
10 of 25
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:53
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Estevam firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Ron McCarthy10–9

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 · Kerry Hatley
Rafael EstevamFelipe Bunes
Official totals — Rafael Estevam first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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 — 9 scored, Rafael Estevam first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Jake Noecker Home of Fight30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Christian Laporte Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Estevam · 44%29-28 Estevam · 35%29-27 Estevam · 13%29-26 Estevam · 4%30-26 Estevam · 4%

23 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.

Rafael Estevam

4.91takedowns / 15 min
4.91 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.08 / 15m
14.88 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.32 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
25%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Felipe Bunes

1.08takedowns / 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.

Rafael Estevam↑ +5.5pp
open 78.6%close 84.0%
Felipe Bunes↓ −5.5pp
open 21.4%close 16.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rafael Estevam opened at 78.6% and closed at 84.0% (+5.5pp), with Felipe Bunes 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
Rafael Estevam-500-75678.6%84.0%+5.5pp
Felipe Bunes34049621.4%16.0%−5.5pp
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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