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Events · UFC Fight Night: Allen vs Costa · Ketlen Vieira vs Jacqueline Cavalcanti
Red corner KetlenVieira“Fenomeno”Nova Uniao · Manaus, Amazonas
VSSettled
Blue corner JacquelineCavalcantiAlmada
Women's Bantamweight3 rounds16 May 2026
The story going in
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Cavalcanti.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Averages 1.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Cavalcanti.
  • Lands 2.6 more significant strikes a minute than Vieira.
16-5
Record
10-2
34
Age
−6 yr28
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
68″
Reach
+2″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+914
UFC bouts
5
+11%1/911% of wins
Finishes
0/50% of wins
Manaus, Amazonas
From
Almada
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
Jacqueline Cavalcanti
60.7% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 80%
Vs the market+3.2pp
Market had our pick at57%
The fight
Ketlen Vieira
LOSS
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Jacqueline Cavalcanti at 60.7%Ketlen Vieira 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
Ketlen Vieira11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 44BODY9%1 of 2LEGS9%1 of 1
Jacqueline Cavalcanti24 sig landed
HEAD25%6 of 23BODY17%4 of 8LEGS58%14 of 15
11 of 47
Sig.
strikes
24 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vieira firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Ketlen Vieira2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 4BODY50%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Jacqueline Cavalcanti1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 of 1LEGS100%1 of 1
2 of 6
Sig.
strikes
1 of 3
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:42
Control
0:00
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vieira firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ketlen Vieira17 sig landed
HEAD100%17 of 38BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Jacqueline Cavalcanti28 sig landed
HEAD32%9 of 38BODY43%12 of 16LEGS25%7 of 7
17 of 39
Sig.
strikes
28 of 61
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vieira firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10David Lethaby9–10

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 · Jerin Valel
Ketlen VieiraJacqueline Cavalcanti
Official totals — Ketlen Vieira first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% 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 — 10 scored, Ketlen Vieira first · unofficial

Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
MM A Latinoamerica29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Cavalcanti · 58%29-28 Vieira · 38%30-27 Cavalcanti · 2%30-27 Vieira · 2%

40 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.

Ketlen Vieira

1.31takedowns / 15 min
1.31 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
3.12 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
42%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Jacqueline Cavalcanti

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Bantamweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Ketlen VieiraJacqueline CavalcantiPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Ketlen Vieira vs Jacqueline Cavalcanti — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Ketlen Vieira and Jacqueline Cavalcanti from May 02 to May 16, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Ketlen Vieira moves from 62% to 54% and Jacqueline Cavalcanti from 38% to 46%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.30%40%50%60%70%May 2May 6May 9May 13May 16▲ our call: Jacqueline Cavalcanti (MED)54%46%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Jacqueline Cavalcanti's implied chance moved up from 38% to 46% (+9.0pp). Our pick was frozen at the model cutoff, before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

Our published call had Jacqueline Cavalcanti at 60.7%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 46.5% — our number sat 14.2pp 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
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Ketlen Vieira — sportsbook consensus43.2%38.7%61.0%61.0%+17.8pp
Jacqueline Cavalcanti — sportsbook consensus56.8%39.0%61.3%39.0%−17.8pp
Ketlen Vieira — Polymarket62.5%42.5%62.5%53.5%−9.0pp
Jacqueline Cavalcanti — Polymarket37.5%37.5%57.5%46.5%+9.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 3,008 snapshots on file · window May 02 18:46May 16 23:57Z · last capture May 16, 23:57Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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