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Events · UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs Zalal · Talita Alencar vs Julia Polastri
Red corner TalitaAlencar“Problem Child”Carutapera, Maranhao
VSSettled
Blue corner JuliaPolastri“Psycho”CWB Fighter · Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro
Women's Strawweight3 rounds25 Apr 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Lands 3.1 more significant strikes a minute than Alencar.
  • Averages 2.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Polastri.
8-1-1
Record
15-6
35
Age
−7 yr28
5' 1"
Height
+1″5' 2"
58″
Reach
+5″63″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
4
1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Carutapera, Maranhao
From
Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro
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
Julia Polastri
61.9% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 67%
Vs the market−3.9pp
Market had our pick at66%
The fight
Talita Alencar
LOSS
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Julia Polastri at 61.9%Talita Alencar won. We had the method right and the man wrong.
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
Talita Alencar12 sig landed
HEAD25%3 of 35BODY33%4 of 8LEGS42%5 of 6
Julia Polastri21 sig landed
HEAD38%8 of 11BODY24%5 of 6LEGS38%8 of 9
12 of 49
Sig.
strikes
21 of 26
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:00
Control
0:04
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alencar firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Talita Alencar20 sig landed
HEAD70%14 of 56BODY30%6 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Julia Polastri27 sig landed
HEAD67%18 of 31BODY19%5 of 5LEGS15%4 of 4
20 of 65
Sig.
strikes
27 of 40
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:27
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alencar firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Talita Alencar28 sig landed
HEAD61%17 of 60BODY32%9 of 18LEGS7%2 of 3
Julia Polastri30 sig landed
HEAD73%22 of 36BODY7%2 of 3LEGS20%6 of 6
28 of 81
Sig.
strikes
30 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alencar firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Talita AlencarJulia Polastri
Official totals — Talita Alencar first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28

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, Talita Alencar first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Polastri · 48%29-28 Alencar · 29%30-27 Polastri · 12%30-27 Alencar · 7%

56 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.

Talita Alencar

3.01takedowns / 15 min
3.01 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.62 / 15m
10.38 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.77 / 15m
29%
ACCURACY
80%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Julia Polastri

0.62takedowns / 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 (4.04 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Strawweight

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.

Talita Alencar↓ −3.4pp
open 35.7%close 32.3%
Julia Polastri↑ +3.4pp
open 64.3%close 67.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Talita Alencar opened at 35.7% and closed at 32.3% (−3.4pp), with Julia Polastri 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 Julia Polastri at 61.9%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 67.7% — our number sat 5.8pp 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
Talita Alencar17019735.7%32.3%−3.4pp
Julia Polastri-200-24064.3%67.7%+3.4pp
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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