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Red corner ManoelSousa“Manumito”Academia Octogono · Acarau, Ceara
VSSettled
Blue corner RichieMiranda
Lightweight3 rounds8 Aug 2026
We hold no public fighter-register entry for Richie Miranda yet, so there is no side-by-side to lay out here — an empty ladder would say less than saying that.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Manoel Sousa
68.2% confidentMED
Method calledKO/TKO 38%
Vs the market−22.9pp
Market had our pick at91%
The fight
Manoel Sousa
WIN
How it endedU-DEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Manoel Sousa at 68.2% and Manoel Sousa 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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Manoel Sousa7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 11BODY14%1 of 2LEGS29%2 of 3
Richie Miranda17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 27BODY12%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 16
Sig.
strikes
17 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:04
Control
2:27
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 11
Judges · this round · Sousa firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Sousa
Manoel Sousa36 sig landed
HEAD67%24 of 36BODY6%2 of 2LEGS28%10 of 12
Richie Miranda12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 31BODY8%1 of 3LEGS8%1 of 1
36 of 50
Sig.
strikes
12 of 35
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:57
Control
0:31
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 26Clinch 5Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sousa firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Manoel Sousa24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 39BODY8%2 of 3LEGS29%7 of 11
Richie Miranda17 sig landed
HEAD94%16 of 50BODY6%1 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
24 of 53
Sig.
strikes
17 of 54
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:48
Control
0:53
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sousa firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Jason Herzog
Manoel SousaRichie Miranda
Official totals — Manoel Sousa first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 9 scored, Manoel Sousa first · unofficial

Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
CombatPress.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Simon Samano MMAJunkie.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Sousa · 69%29-28 Miranda · 23%28-27 Sousa · 4%

26 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

Manoel Sousa

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

0.00takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 1.60 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +0.30 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m−2.13 vs field
ATTEMPTS
Attempts per 15 needs both a landed rate and a completion rate; one of them is missing, so we do not divide.
n/a
ACCURACY
No takedown attempt on the record — UFCStats writes 0% here, which is not a completion rate.
n/a
SUB ATT80
1.60 / 15m+0.30 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.22 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 Lightweight

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.

Manoel SousaRichie MirandaPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Manoel Sousa vs Richie Miranda — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Manoel Sousa and Richie Miranda from Aug 03 to Aug 08, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Manoel Sousa moves from 42% to 74% and Richie Miranda from 58% to 26%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.20%30%40%50%60%70%80%Aug 3Aug 4Aug 6Aug 7Aug 8▲ our call: Manoel Sousa (MED)74%26%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Manoel Sousa's implied chance moved up from 42% to 74% (+33.0pp). 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 Aug 08 21:54Z — 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 Manoel Sousa at 68.2%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 74.5% — our number sat 6.3pp 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
Manoel Sousa — sportsbook consensus68.9%68.7%73.4%73.4%+4.4pp
Richie Miranda — sportsbook consensus31.1%26.6%31.3%26.6%−4.4pp
Manoel Sousa — Polymarket41.5%41.5%74.5%74.5%+33.0pp
Richie Miranda — Polymarket58.5%25.5%58.5%25.5%−33.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,617 snapshots on file · window Aug 03 08:06Aug 08 21:48Z · last capture Aug 08, 21:48Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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