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Events · UFC Fight Night: Leavitt vs Valle · Chidi Njokuani vs Carlos Leal
Red corner ChidiNjokuani“Bang Bang”Las Vegas, Nevada
VSSettled
Blue corner CarlosLeal“The Lion”Thai Brasil · Curitiba, Parana
Welterweight Bout3 rounds21 Feb 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Lands 3.6 more significant strikes a minute than Njokuani.
  • 9 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Leal.
26-12
Record
23-7
37
Age
−6 yr31
+4″6' 3"
Height
5' 11"
+6″80″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+69
UFC bouts
3
3/560% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Las Vegas, Nevada
From
Curitiba, Parana
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
Carlos Leal
54.6% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledKO/TKO 47%
Vs the market−0.2pp
Market had our pick at55%
The fight
Carlos Leal
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Carlos Leal at 54.6% and Carlos Leal 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 — 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
Chidi Njokuani46 sig landed
HEAD17%8 of 23BODY41%19 of 27LEGS41%19 of 20
Carlos Leal60 sig landed
HEAD47%28 of 95BODY35%21 of 25LEGS18%11 of 11
46 of 70
Sig.
strikes
60 of 131
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 39Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 58Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Njokuani firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10Jeff Rexroad9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Chidi Njokuani22 sig landed
HEAD27%6 of 16BODY41%9 of 11LEGS32%7 of 8
Carlos Leal5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS20%1 of 1
22 of 35
Sig.
strikes
5 of 20
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:04
Control
2:17
Distance 17Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Njokuani firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10Jeff Rexroad9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Chidi Njokuani52 sig landed
HEAD60%31 of 71BODY21%11 of 19LEGS19%10 of 10
Carlos Leal50 sig landed
HEAD78%39 of 112BODY16%8 of 10LEGS6%3 of 3
52 of 100
Sig.
strikes
50 of 125
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:02
Control
0:03
Distance 49Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 49Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Njokuani firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee10–9Jeff Rexroad10–9

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
Chidi NjokuaniCarlos Leal
Official totals — Chidi Njokuani first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Jeff Rexroad28–29

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 — 11 scored, Chidi Njokuani first · unofficial

Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Leal · 66%30-27 Leal · 28%29-28 Njokuani · 7%

29 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.

Chidi Njokuani

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.43 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
3.91 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
11%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Carlos Leal

0.43takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Chidi Njokuaniclose only
no opening line on recordclose 44.1%
Carlos Lealclose only
no opening line on recordclose 55.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Chidi Njokuani 44.1%, Carlos Leal 55.9%, vig removed.

Our published call had Carlos Leal at 54.6%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 55.9% — our number sat 1.3pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Chidi Njokuani11744.1%
Carlos Leal-260-14055.9%
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 2026-02-22 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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Chidi Njokuani, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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