Round 1⚡ 1 KD CostaEnded 4:56
7 of 11
Sig.
strikes
strikes
19 of 40
1 of 3
Take-
downs
downs
1 of 1
1:31
Control
0:32
0
Knock-
downs
downs
1
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 13Clinch 4Ground 2
VSSettled
The story going in
- Has finished 6 of 11 UFC wins.
- Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
- 20 UFC bouts deep — 12 more than Costa.
- Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
19-11
Record
26-8
34
Age
−5 yr29
5' 7"
Height
+3″5' 10"
71″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+1220
UFC bouts
8
+5%6/1155% of wins
Finishes
3/650% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
Chute Boxe Joao Emilio
Honolulu, Hawaii
From
Porto de Moz, Para
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
Melquizael Costa
71.9% confidentHIGH
The fight
Melquizael Costa
WIN✗
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
1 round of tape
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
Melquizael Costa
Round
1
Clock
4:56
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: Jacob Montalvo.
Still to come on this page
Named rather than hidden. It is built from data already on disk and lands in the next pass of this build-out.
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.