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Events · UFC Fight Night: Allen vs Costa · Timmy Cuamba vs Benardo Sopaj
Red corner TimmyCuamba
VSSettled
BS
Blue corner BenardoSopaj“Lion King”
Bantamweight3 rounds16 May 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Is 16 points more accurate striking than Cuamba.
10-4
Record
13-3
27
Age
−2 yr25
+3″5' 9"
Height
5' 6"
+5″71″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+24
UFC bouts
2
1/250% of wins
Finishes
0/10% 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
Timmy Cuamba
50.6% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 66%
Vs the market+5.1pp
Market had our pick at45%
The fight
Benardo Sopaj
LOSS
How it endedSUB
Round2 of 3
Clock2:25
Missed We called Timmy Cuamba at 50.6%Benardo Sopaj won. The method call missed as well.
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Timmy Cuamba20 sig landed
HEAD35%7 of 40BODY30%6 of 9LEGS35%7 of 11
Benardo Sopaj11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 18BODY0%0 landedLEGS18%2 of 2
20 of 60
Sig.
strikes
11 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:08
Control
0:52
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 22:25 of action⚡ 1 KD Sopaj1 sub attemptEnded 2:25
Timmy Cuamba9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 14BODY33%3 of 4LEGS11%1 of 2
Benardo Sopaj26 sig landed
HEAD96%25 of 35BODY0%0 landedLEGS4%1 of 1
9 of 20
Sig.
strikes
26 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:03
Control
1:02
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 23

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

Benardo Sopaj

Round
2
Clock
2:25
Method
SUB

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: Jerin Valel.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Timmy Cuamba

1.18takedowns / 15 min
1.18 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.43 / 15m
3.81 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.05 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
60%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Benardo Sopaj

2.43takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in 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.

Timmy CuambaBenardo SopajPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Timmy Cuamba vs Benardo Sopaj — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Timmy Cuamba and Benardo Sopaj from May 02 to May 16, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Timmy Cuamba moves from 50% to 46% and Benardo Sopaj from 50% to 54%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.35%40%45%50%55%60%65%May 2May 6May 9May 13May 16▲ we passed here (toss-up)46%54%

Timmy Cuamba's implied chance drifted down from 50% to 46% (−3.5pp) over this window. 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 Timmy Cuamba at 50.6%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 46.5% — our number sat 4.1pp 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
Timmy Cuamba — sportsbook consensus40.9%39.6%46.9%46.6%+5.7pp
Benardo Sopaj — sportsbook consensus59.1%53.1%60.4%53.4%−5.7pp
Timmy Cuamba — Polymarket50.0%43.0%56.5%46.5%−3.5pp
Benardo Sopaj — Polymarket50.0%43.5%57.0%53.5%+3.5pp
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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