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Rafael Cavalcante
12-7tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record12-7
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age46
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameFeijao
NationalityBrazil
HometownIlha Solteira, Sao Paulo
Fighting out ofpending
Height6' 1"
Reach74.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age46
Date of birthApr 14, 1980
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record12-7
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 KO/TKO

Career rates facts

Career averages over Rafael Cavalcante’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 / min2.71
Striking accuracy53%
Strikes absorbed / min3.62
Striking defence49%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.60
Takedown accuracy40%
Takedown defence63%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.10

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light Heavyweight 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking64
Defence47
Grappling / TD24
Cardio21
Chin38
Fight IQ39

Strike zones

Strike zones

Rafael Cavalcante

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

HEAD82.0%ACC 42%BODY8.4%FIELD 19%LEGS9.6%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 82.0% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +18.2 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
82.0% acc 42%+18.2 vs field
BODY
8.4%−10.8 vs field
LEGS
9.6%−7.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 67%CLINCH 19%GROUND 13%

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.

5 UFC fights · 83 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Rafael Cavalcante

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

0.60takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.60 takedowns and 0.10 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS17
0.60 / 15m−1.67 vs field
ATTEMPTS12
1.50 / 15m−3.93 vs field
ACCURACY49
40%−3pp vs field
SUB ATT7
0.10 / 15m−1.49 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.96 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 Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 12-7. In the UFC: 1-4. Rafael Cavalcante’s last 5 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.

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