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Manel Kape
“StarBoy”
AngolaFlyweightActiveage 32
22-7
76% win rate
W3 streak
Peak Vertex
2025-12-13 → 2025-12-1359held 4 boutscurrently at peak
Bouts at peak
- Wvs · KO · 2025-12-13
Still at career peak
Upcoming
Scheduled and newly announced fights. Announced bouts are reported bookings not yet on the official card.
- UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Horiguchi2026-06-20Flyweight
Career timeline
Each dot is a fight — green wins, red losses, larger dots are title fights. Hover for details, click to open the bout.
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- Loss
- Draw / No contest
- Title
7 wins3 losseslast 5: W W W L Wdrag to scroll · 1993–2025
Key stats
Six attributes derived from striking, grappling, and finishing rates.
Striking heatmap
Significant strikes by target zone, aggregated across all UFC rounds.
Round-by-round averages
Average values per round across the selected fights — toggle metrics below.
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Metrics
| Metric | R1(10) | R2(7) | R3(7) | R4 | R5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sig Str landed | 22.2 | 25.9 | 39.6 | — | — |
| Sig Str absorbed | 19.6 | 22.0 | 21.1 | — | — |
| Takedowns landed | 0.00 | 0.14 | 0.29 | — | — |
| Takedowns absorbed | 0.30 | 0.29 | 0.29 | — | — |
| Control time | 0:06 | 0:08 | 0:18 | — | — |
Fight history
Career UFC bouts in reverse chronological order.
- UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Kape2025-12-13W·KO·R1 · 3:18
- UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Almabayev2025-03-01W·KO·R3 · 2:16
- UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Buckley2024-12-14W·KO·R3 · 1:57
- UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 22024-07-27L·U-Dec·R3 · 5:00
- UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland2023-09-09W·U-Dec·R3 · 5:00
- W·U-Dec·R3 · 5:00
- UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Aldo2021-12-04W·KO·R1 · 4:02
- UFC 265: Lewis vs. Gane2021-08-07W·KO·R1 · 4:44
- UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Muhammad2021-03-13L·S-Dec·R3 · 5:00
- UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov2021-02-06L·U-Dec·R3 · 5:00
In the news
Recent MMA headlines that mention this fighter.
- Sherdog
The UFC Fight Night 279 card is nearing completion ahead of the June 20 event, which will take place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
Similar fighters
Closest stylistic matches by inverse-Euclidean similarity over striking and grappling rates.
