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Events · UFC: Kim vs Fan · Tai Tuivasa vs Tallison Teixeira
Red corner TaiTuivasa“Bam Bam”Lions High Performance Centre · Sydney, New South Wales
VSSettled
Blue corner TallisonTeixeiraTeam Lucas Mineiro · Vitoria da Conquista, Bahia
Heavyweight Bout3 rounds31 Jan 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 5 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 2.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Tuivasa.
  • Has finished 7 of 8 UFC wins.
15-10
Record
9-2
32
Age
−6 yr26
6' 2"
Height
+5″6' 7"
75″
Reach
+8″83″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1416
UFC bouts
2
7/888% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Lions High Performance Centre
Gym
Team Lucas Mineiro
Sydney, New South Wales
From
Vitoria da Conquista, Bahia
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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Tallison Teixeira
81.1% confidentLOCK
Method calledKO/TKO 68%
Vs the market+9.3pp
Market had our pick at72%
The fight
Tallison Teixeira
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Tallison Teixeira at 81.1% and Tallison Teixeira won. The method call missed.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

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
Tai Tuivasa2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 3BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Tallison Teixeira19 sig landed
HEAD84%16 of 20BODY11%2 of 2LEGS5%1 of 1
2 of 4
Sig.
strikes
19 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:42
Control
3:57
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 14
Round 25:00 of action
Tai Tuivasa13 sig landed
HEAD23%3 of 7BODY15%2 of 2LEGS62%8 of 9
Tallison Teixeira21 sig landed
HEAD86%18 of 27BODY10%2 of 2LEGS5%1 of 2
13 of 18
Sig.
strikes
21 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:06
Control
3:01
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 7
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tai Tuivasa27 sig landed
HEAD63%17 of 26BODY26%7 of 7LEGS11%3 of 3
Tallison Teixeira11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 13BODY55%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
27 of 36
Sig.
strikes
11 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
3:10
Control
0:02
Distance 15Clinch 9Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 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.

Judges’ scorecards

Every judge’s round, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Tai TuivasaTallison Teixeira
Official card — Tai Tuivasa first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide9–109–1010–928–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide9–109–1010–928–29
Evan Field2.2 avg spread · 48% wide9–109–1010–928–29

Media cards — 14 scored, Tai Tuivasa first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Connor The Fight City28–29
MM A Latinoamerica28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Teixeira · 71%29-27 Teixeira · 5%29-28 Tuivasa · 3%

94 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.

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The market story coming in this build-out

What the price did in the week before the cage door shut, with the moment our pick was frozen marked on it. Where we captured no price history for a bout, this panel will say so rather than draw a line that was never there.

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