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Manel Kape
23-7tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Manel Kape’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

Pro record23-7
Current streak4 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W W W L
DivisionFlyweight
Age32
Height5' 5"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 5" southpaw power striker campaigning at Flyweight. 8 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 2 decision. Top 7% of Flyweights: connects with 56% of his significant strikes and lands 5.04 significant strikes a minute.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameStarBoy
NationalityAngola
HometownLuanda
Fighting out ofXtreme Couture
Height5' 5"
Reach68.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age32
Date of birthNov 14, 1993
Weight125 lbs.
Pro record23-7
Finish split8 UFC wins — 6 KO/TKO, 2 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Manel Kape’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 / min5.04
Striking accuracy56%
Strikes absorbed / min4.08
Striking defence57%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.40
Takedown accuracy30%
Takedown defence81%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.30

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Flyweight 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 Flyweight.
Striking92
Defence51
Grappling / TD19
Cardio83
Chin96
Fight IQ68

Our calls on Manel Kape’s fights

Every fight of Manel Kape’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 Manel Kape’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% 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
2026-06-21Kyoji HoriguchiManel Kape56.3%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 5 of Manel Kape’s fights, 4 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

Manel Kape

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

HEAD66.7%ACC 46%BODY18.6%ACC 76%LEGS14.7%ACC 87%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 67% head / 19% body / 15% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
66.7% acc 46%+3.5 vs field
BODY
18.6% acc 76%−2.2 vs field
LEGS
14.7% acc 87%−1.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 89%CLINCH 4%GROUND 7%

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.

11 UFC fights · 580 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Manel Kape

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

0.40takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.40 takedowns and 0.30 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS3
0.40 / 15m−1.74 vs field
ATTEMPTS7
1.33 / 15m−4.33 vs field
ACCURACY35
30%−12pp vs field
SUB ATT19
0.30 / 15m−0.84 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.00 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 Flyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 23-7. In the UFC: 8-3. Manel Kape’s last 8 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 — 11 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-06-20WKyoji HoriguchiKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Horiguchi
2025-12-13WBrandon RoyvalKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Kape
2025-03-01WAsu AlmabayevKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Almabayev
2024-12-14WBruno SilvaKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Buckley
2024-07-27LMuhammad MokaevDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2
2023-09-09WFelipe dos SantosDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland
2022-12-17WDavid DvorakDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Strickland
2021-12-04WZhalgas ZhumagulovKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Aldo
2021-08-07WOde OsbourneKO/TKOR1UFC 265: Lewis vs. Gane
2021-03-13LMatheus NicolauDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Muhammad
2021-02-06LAlexandre PantojaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov

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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