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Events · Muhammad vs Bonfim · Iwo Baraniewski vs Junior Tafa
Red corner IwoBaraniewskiAligatores Fight Club · Warsaw
VSSettled
Blue corner JuniorTafa“The Juggernaut”NTG Fight & Fitness · Avondale
Light Heavyweight3 rounds7 Jun 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Tafa’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Lands 12.1 more significant strikes a minute than Tafa.
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Baraniewski.
9-0
Record
7-6
−2 yr27
Age
29
6' 0"
Height
+3″6' 3"
73″
Reach
+2″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+68
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
3/3100% of wins
Aligatores Fight Club
Gym
NTG Fight & Fitness
Warsaw
From
Avondale
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
Iwo Baraniewski
50.0% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledKO/TKO 66%
Market had our pick at80%
The fight
Iwo Baraniewski
WIN
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock1:25
Called it We called Iwo Baraniewski at 50.0% and Iwo Baraniewski won. The method call landed too.
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 11:25 of action⚡ 1 KD BaraniewskiEnded 1:25
Iwo Baraniewski6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 18BODY17%1 of 1LEGS50%3 of 3
Junior Tafa0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 8 thrown

6 of 22
Sig.
strikes
0 of 8
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:17
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 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

Iwo Baraniewski

Round
1
Clock
1:25
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: Dan Miragliotta.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Iwo Baraniewski

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
n/a
n/a
ACCURACY
n/a
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Junior Tafa

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

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Iwo BaraniewskiJunior TafaPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Iwo Baraniewski vs Junior Tafa — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Iwo Baraniewski and Junior Tafa from Jun 01 to Jun 06, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Iwo Baraniewski moves from 73% to 80% and Junior Tafa from 27% to 20%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.15%25%35%45%55%65%75%85%Jun 1Jun 3Jun 4Jun 5Jun 6▲ we passed here (toss-up)80%20%

Iwo Baraniewski's implied chance drifted up from 73% to 80% (+6.5pp) 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.

This series stops at Jun 06 23:54Z — 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 Iwo Baraniewski at 50.0%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 79.5% — our number sat 29.5pp below 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
Iwo Baraniewski — sportsbook consensus72.4%72.4%78.2%78.2%+5.8pp
Junior Tafa — sportsbook consensus27.6%21.8%27.6%21.8%−5.8pp
Iwo Baraniewski — Polymarket73.0%72.0%79.5%79.5%+6.5pp
Junior Tafa — Polymarket27.0%20.5%28.0%20.5%−6.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,472 snapshots on file · window Jun 01 17:27Jun 06 23:48Z · last capture Jun 06, 23:48Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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