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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.

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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