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Fight breakdown · 18 Jul 2026

Levi Rodrigues Jr vs Felipe Franco

Levi Rodrigues Jr makes his UFC debut.

Levi Rodrigues Jr makes his UFC debut. Felipe Franco is 0-1, having lost a unanimous decision to Mario Pinto in March. Neither man has a UFC win. The model splits it and gives Franco the narrowest possible lean.

The read

This is as close to even as the model gets, and the single fact separating the two is that Franco has already been through 15 UFC minutes. Franco's path is that experience and whatever he took from losing it. Rodrigues' path is a debut, and the model's read on the fight was close to a coin flip. The method is the odd detail: this is the only fight on the card where the model's most likely finish is a knockout rather than a decision.

What decides it

Published by FightIQ on 18 Jul 2026. Claims about fights and records are checked against our own graded card data before publication — the same data behind the public track record. How this was written, checked and published.

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