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Benardo Sopaj
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FightIQ’s profile

Built from Benardo Sopaj’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record13-3
Current streak2 wins
Last 3 (UFC)W W L
DivisionBantamweight
Age25
Height5' 6"
StanceOrthodox

5' 6" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Bantamweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 submission, 1 decision. Top 5% of Bantamweights: connects with 58% of his significant strikes and completes 60% of his takedown attempts.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.

NicknameLion King
Nationalitypending
Hometownpending
Fighting out ofpending
Height5' 6"
Reach66.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age25
Date of birthSep 25, 2000
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record13-3
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 submission, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Benardo Sopaj’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min4.39
Striking accuracy58%
Strikes absorbed / min4.69
Striking defence52%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.43
Takedown accuracy60%
Takedown defence76%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Bantamweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Bantamweight.
Striking88
Defence34
Grappling / TD71
Cardio50
Chin limited sample26
Fight IQ54

Our calls on Benardo Sopaj’s fights

Every fight of Benardo Sopaj’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 1 of Benardo Sopaj’s fights in 2026: 0 correct (0–1 — 0% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-05-16Timmy CuambaTimmy Cuamba (against Sopaj)50.6%Missed
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 2 of Benardo Sopaj’s fights, 2 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Benardo Sopaj

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD85.9%ACC 56%BODY5.5%FIELD 22%LEGS8.6%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 85.9% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +24.3 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
85.9% acc 56%+24.3 vs field
BODY
5.5%−16.4 vs field
LEGS
8.6%−7.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 51%CLINCH 10%GROUND 39%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

3 UFC fights · 163 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Benardo Sopaj

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

2.43takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 2.43 takedowns per 15 minutes at 60% completion — +19pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS68
2.43 / 15m+0.35 vs field
ATTEMPTS44
4.05 / 15m−1.49 vs field
ACCURACY87
60%+19pp vs field
SUB ATT59
0.80 / 15m−0.27 vs field

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.

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 Bantamweight

Recent form

Pro record: 13-3. In the UFC: 2-1. Benardo Sopaj’s last 3 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

Full UFC career — 3 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-05-16WTimmy CuambaSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Costa
2025-01-18WRicky TurciosDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Moicano
2024-03-02LVinicius OliveiraKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Gaziev

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

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