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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
14-6
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

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
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
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

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 · Jason Herzog
Talita AlencarJulia Polastri
Official card — Talita Alencar first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Michael Bell10–910–99–1029–28
Derek Cleary2.1 avg spread · 43% wide10–910–99–1029–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide10–910–99–1029–28

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.

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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