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Manel Kape
“StarBoy”
AngolaFlyweightActiveage 32
23-7
77% win rate
W4 streak
Peak Vertex
2026-06-20 → 2026-06-2071held 2 boutscurrently at peak
Bouts at peak
- Wvs · KO · 2026-06-20
Still at career peak
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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- Draw / No contest
- Title
8 wins3 losseslast 5: W W W W Ldrag to scroll · 1993–2026
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(11) | R2(8) | R3(8) | R4 | R5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sig Str landed | 20.6 | 22.9 | 37.4 | — | — |
| Sig Str absorbed | 18.6 | 20.6 | 20.3 | — | — |
| Takedowns landed | 0.00 | 0.13 | 0.25 | — | — |
| Takedowns absorbed | 0.36 | 0.38 | 0.25 | — | — |
| Control time | 0:06 | 0:07 | 0:18 | — | — |
Fight history
Career UFC bouts in reverse chronological order.
- UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Horiguchi2026-06-20W·KO·R3 · 2:42
- 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.
- MMA Fighting
Eric Nicksick, head coach to UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland and flyweight contender Manel Kape, has downplayed reports of tension between himself and Kape's manager Ali Abdelaziz following…
- MMA Fighting
Flyweight contender Manel Kape has brushed off a recent social media conflict with UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland, dismissing the back-and-forth as nothing more than attention-seeking behavior.
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Closest stylistic matches by inverse-Euclidean similarity over striking and grappling rates.
