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Red corner Aoriqileng
VSSettled
Blue corner KaiAsakuraJapan Top Team · Toyohashi, Aichi
Bantamweight3 rounds29 Aug 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Asakura.
26-14
Record
23-6
33
Age
−1 yr32
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
69″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+710
UFC bouts
3
2/450% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
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
Kai Asakura
62.9% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 51%
Vs the market−16.4pp
Market had our pick at79%
The fight
Kai Asakura
WIN
How it endedKO/TKO
Round2 of 3
Clock0:34
Called it We called Kai Asakura at 62.9% and Kai Asakura 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 action
Aoriqileng13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 12BODY31%4 of 8LEGS31%4 of 5
Kai Asakura15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 24BODY20%3 of 4LEGS20%3 of 6
13 of 25
Sig.
strikes
15 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:33
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 20:34 of action⚡ 1 KD AsakuraEnded 0:34
Aoriqileng1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
Kai Asakura12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 14BODY17%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 3
Sig.
strikes
12 of 16
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 5

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

Kai Asakura

Round
2
Clock
0:34
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: Vitor Ribeiro.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Aoriqileng

1.20takedowns / 15 min
1.20 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
2.61 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
46%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Kai Asakura

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

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

AoriqilengKai AsakuraPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Aoriqileng vs Kai Asakura — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Aoriqileng and Kai Asakura from Aug 21 to Aug 29, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Aoriqileng moves from 22% to 20% and Kai Asakura from 78% to 80%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%Aug 21Aug 23Aug 25Aug 27Aug 29▲ our call: Kai Asakura (MED)20%80%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Kai Asakura's implied chance moved up from 78% to 80% (+2.0pp).

This series stops at Aug 29 11:39Z — 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 Kai Asakura at 62.9%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 79.5% — our number sat 16.6pp 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
Aoriqileng — sportsbook consensus23.4%17.9%23.8%20.9%−2.5pp
Kai Asakura — sportsbook consensus76.6%76.2%82.1%79.1%+2.5pp
Aoriqileng — Polymarket22.5%19.5%22.5%20.5%−2.0pp
Kai Asakura — Polymarket77.5%77.5%80.5%79.5%+2.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 2,248 snapshots on file · window Aug 21 17:15Aug 29 11:33Z · last capture Aug 29, 11:33Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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