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Events · UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs Prates · Junior Tafa vs Kevin Christian
Red corner JuniorTafa“The Juggernaut”NTG Fight & Fitness · Avondale
VSSettled
Blue corner KevinChristianCosme Junior Team · Rio Preto da Eva, Amazonas
Light Heavyweight3 rounds2 May 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Christian.
7-6
Record
9-4
−2 yr29
Age
31
6' 3"
Height
+4″6' 7"
75″
Reach
+5″80″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+67
UFC bouts
1
NTG Fight & Fitness
Gym
Cosme Junior Team
Avondale
From
Rio Preto da Eva, Amazonas
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
Junior Tafa
54.4% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 43%
Vs the market−7.0pp
Market had our pick at61%
The fight
Junior Tafa
WIN
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock2:42
Called it We called Junior Tafa at 54.4% and Junior Tafa won. The method call missed.
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

Round 12:42 of actionEnded 2:42
Junior Tafa21 sig landed
HEAD95%20 of 30BODY0%0 landedLEGS5%1 of 1
Kevin Christian13 sig landed
HEAD15%2 of 7BODY15%2 of 3LEGS69%9 of 11
21 of 31
Sig.
strikes
13 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:09
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Junior Tafa

Round
1
Clock
2:42
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: Matt Wynne.

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.

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