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Events · Kape vs Horiguchi · Ion Cutelaba vs Navajo Stirling
Red corner IonCutelaba“The Hulk”Chisinau
VSSettled
Blue corner NavajoStirlingCity Kickboxing · Auckland
Light Heavyweight3 rounds21 Jun 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Unbeaten — 4-0 in the UFC.
  • 20 UFC bouts deep — 16 more than Stirling.
  • Lands 2.0 more significant strikes a minute than Cutelaba.
20-12-1
Record
11-0
32
Age
−4 yr28
6' 1"
Height
+3″6' 4"
75″
Reach
+4″79″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1620
UFC bouts
4
+42%6/967% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
Chisinau
From
Auckland
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
Navajo Stirling
71.5% confidentHIGH
Method calledDEC 53%
Vs the market−3.0pp
Market had our pick at75%
The fight
Navajo Stirling
WIN
How it endedKO/TKO
Round2 of 3
Clock3:23
Called it We called Navajo Stirling at 71.5% and Navajo Stirling 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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Ion Cutelaba6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 24BODY17%1 of 1LEGS17%1 of 1
Navajo Stirling16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 15BODY38%6 of 7LEGS6%1 of 2
6 of 26
Sig.
strikes
16 of 24
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:53
Control
1:10
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 23:23 of actionEnded 3:23
Ion Cutelaba13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 12BODY15%2 of 3LEGS38%5 of 7
Navajo Stirling36 sig landed
HEAD81%29 of 39BODY14%5 of 5LEGS6%2 of 2
13 of 22
Sig.
strikes
36 of 46
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:08
Control
0:43
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 20

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

Navajo Stirling

Round
2
Clock
3:23
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: Kerry Hatley.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Ion Cutelaba

3.76takedowns / 15 min
3.76 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.98 / 15m
7.67 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.50 / 15m
49%
ACCURACY
28%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Navajo Stirling

0.98takedowns / 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.

Ion CutelabaNavajo StirlingPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Ion Cutelaba vs Navajo Stirling — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Ion Cutelaba and Navajo Stirling from Jun 19 to Jun 20, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Ion Cutelaba moves from 28% to 25% and Navajo Stirling from 72% to 75%. 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%Jun 19 22:00Jun 20 04:00Jun 20 10:00Jun 20 15:00Jun 20 21:00▲ we flagged Navajo Stirling (HIGH) here25%75%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Navajo Stirling's implied chance moved up from 72% to 75% (+2.5pp). 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 Navajo Stirling at 71.5%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 75.0% — our number sat 3.5pp 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 captureMove
Ion Cutelaba — sportsbook consensus27.3%25.5%27.7%26.8%−0.6pp
Navajo Stirling — sportsbook consensus72.7%72.3%74.5%73.2%+0.6pp
Ion Cutelaba — Polymarket27.5%23.5%27.5%25.0%−2.5pp
Navajo Stirling — Polymarket72.5%72.5%76.5%75.0%+2.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 271 snapshots on file · window Jun 19 22:57Jun 20 21:21Z · last capture Jun 20, 21:21Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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