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Events · UFC Fight Night: Leavitt vs Valle · Ramiz Brahimaj vs Punahele Soriano
Red corner RamizBrahimajValle Flow Striking · Bronx, New York
VSSettled
Blue corner PunaheleSoriano“Puna”
Welterweight Bout3 rounds21 Feb 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Brahimaj’s 5 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
13-7
Record
13-4
33
Age
33
5' 10"
Height
+1″5' 11"
72″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
8
UFC bouts
+210
+33%5/5100% of wins
Finishes
4/667% of wins
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
Punahele Soriano
56.4% confidentLOW
Method calledDEC 44%
Vs the market+10.3pp
Market had our pick at46%
The fight
Punahele Soriano
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Punahele Soriano at 56.4% and Punahele Soriano won. The method call landed too.
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
Ramiz Brahimaj31 sig landed
HEAD42%13 of 37BODY55%17 of 18LEGS3%1 of 1
Punahele Soriano17 sig landed
HEAD82%14 of 47BODY18%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
31 of 56
Sig.
strikes
17 of 52
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:20
Distance 30Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brahimaj firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Ramiz Brahimaj5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 3BODY60%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Punahele Soriano7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 7BODY71%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 7
Sig.
strikes
7 of 12
2 of 6
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:47
Control
2:35
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 6Ground 1
Judges · this round · Brahimaj firstSal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ramiz Brahimaj2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 2BODY50%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Punahele Soriano16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 25BODY19%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 4
Sig.
strikes
16 of 28
1 of 4
Take-
downs
2 of 3
1:59
Control
2:05
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brahimaj firstSal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Ramiz BrahimajPunahele Soriano
Official totals — Ramiz Brahimaj first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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, Ramiz Brahimaj first · unofficial

Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Alex Behunin MMA Mania28–29
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Soriano · 75%29-28 Brahimaj · 18%30-27 Soriano · 7%

28 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.

Ramiz Brahimaj

1.99takedowns / 15 min
1.99 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.97 / 15m
5.85 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.86 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
51%
1.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Punahele Soriano

1.97takedowns / 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.

Ramiz Brahimaj↑ +6.2pp
open 39.2%close 45.4%
Punahele Soriano↓ −6.2pp
open 60.8%close 54.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ramiz Brahimaj opened at 39.2% and closed at 45.4% (+6.2pp), with Punahele Soriano 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.

Our published call had Punahele Soriano at 56.4%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 54.6% — our number sat 1.8pp above 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
Ramiz Brahimaj14611139.2%45.4%+6.2pp
Punahele Soriano-171-13360.8%54.6%−6.2pp
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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