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Events · Song vs Figueiredo · Rodrigo Vera vs Zhu Kangjie
Red corner RodrigoVeraPitbull Martial Arts Center · Lima
VSSettled
Blue corner ZhuKangjie
Featherweight3 rounds30 May 2026
22-1-1
Record
21-5
30
Age
30
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
Rodrigo Vera
50.5% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 38%
Vs the market−0.7pp
Market had our pick at51%
The fight
Rodrigo Vera
WIN
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock1:50
Called it We called Rodrigo Vera at 50.5% and Rodrigo Vera 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 11:50 of action⚡ 1 KD VeraEnded 1:50
Rodrigo Vera17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 20BODY6%1 of 1LEGS18%3 of 8
Zhu Kangjie7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 8BODY29%2 of 2LEGS43%3 of 4
17 of 29
Sig.
strikes
7 of 14
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:41
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 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

Rodrigo Vera

Round
1
Clock
1:50
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: Lukasz Bosacki.

Takedowns

Takedowns

Zhu Kangjie

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.33takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.33 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.03 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS4
0.33 / 15m−2.03 vs field
ATTEMPTS1
0.33 / 15m−5.54 vs field
ACCURACY100
100%+57pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.27 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Rodrigo VeraZhu KangjiePolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Rodrigo Vera vs Zhu Kangjie — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Rodrigo Vera and Zhu Kangjie from May 26 to May 30, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Rodrigo Vera moves from 50% to 50% and Zhu Kangjie from 50% to 50%. 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 26May 27May 28May 29May 30▲ we passed here (toss-up)50%50%

Rodrigo Vera's implied chance drifted down from 50% to 50% (−1.0pp) 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.

This series stops at May 30 08:27Z — the last capture we hold from before the bout that ran ahead of this one on the card had finished — so it is provably from before this fight started. Our capture window is card-level and kept running through the fight, so what follows it in the raw file is the market collapsing live and then paying out at 1.00 / 0.00. That is a settlement, not price history: it is not drawn, and it is not counted in the figures below.

Our published call had Rodrigo Vera at 50.5%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 49.5% — our number sat 1.0pp 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 pre-fightMove
Rodrigo Vera — sportsbook consensus52.2%49.5%52.2%49.5%−2.7pp
Zhu Kangjie — sportsbook consensus47.8%47.8%50.5%50.5%+2.7pp
Rodrigo Vera — Polymarket50.5%35.0%50.5%49.5%−1.0pp
Zhu Kangjie — Polymarket49.5%49.5%65.0%50.5%+1.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,002 snapshots on file · window May 26 19:54May 30 08:24Z · last capture May 30, 08:24Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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