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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.

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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