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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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

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
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
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

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Ramiz BrahimajPunahele Soriano
Official card — Ramiz Brahimaj first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide10–99–109–1028–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide10–99–109–1028–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide10–99–109–1028–29

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.

Still to come on this page

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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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