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Imanol Rodriguez vs Kevin Borjas

Red corner ImanolRodriguezTeam Blackxicans · Hometown (per Sherdog): Ensenada, Baja California
VSSettled
Blue corner KevinBorjas“El Gallo Negro”Pitbull Martial Arts Center · Hometown (per Sherdog): Lima
Flyweight Bout3 rounds28 Feb 2026
The story going in
  • Lands 2.1 more significant strikes a minute than Borjas.
  • Carries 70 points more takedown defence than Rodriguez.
8-0
Record
11-6
−2 yr26
Age
28
5' 4"
Height
+1″5' 5"
64″
Reach
+4″68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Team Blackxicans
Gym
Pitbull Martial Arts Center
Ensenada, Baja Californiahometown, per Sherdog
From
Limahometown, per Sherdog
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Imanol Rodriguez
71.7% confidentHIGH
Method calledDEC 50%
Vs the market−4.6pp
Market had our pick at76%
The fight
Imanol Rodriguez
WIN✗
How it endedKO/TKO
Round2 of 3
Clock4:21
BonusPOTN
Called it We called Imanol Rodriguez at 71.7% and Imanol Rodriguez won. The method call missed.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 2 KD Borjas
Imanol Rodriguez12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 17BODY8%1 of 1LEGS17%2 of 4
Kevin Borjas12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 20BODY17%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 22
Sig.
strikes
12 of 23
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:28
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
2
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 24:21 of action⚡ 1 KD RodriguezEnded 4:21
Imanol Rodriguez34 sig landed
HEAD76%26 of 50BODY18%6 of 10LEGS6%2 of 2
Kevin Borjas10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 25BODY10%1 of 2LEGS20%2 of 2
34 of 62
Sig.
strikes
10 of 29
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 24Clinch 2Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Imanol Rodriguez

Round
2
Clock
4:21
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Raul Porrata.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Imanol Rodriguez

2.04takedowns / 15 min
2.04 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
4.08 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
50%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Kevin Borjas

0.00takedowns / 15 min

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. 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.

Ranked in Flyweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Imanol Rodriguez↑ +11.8pp
open 67.3%close 79.1%
Kevin Borjas↓ −11.8pp
open 32.7%close 20.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Imanol Rodriguez opened at 67.3% and closed at 79.1% (+11.8pp), with Kevin Borjas moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Our published call had Imanol Rodriguez at 71.7%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 79.1% — our number sat 7.4pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Imanol Rodriguez-230-48767.3%79.1%+11.8pp
Kevin Borjas19535532.7%20.9%−11.8pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · dated 2026-03-01 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · scraped 2026-10-11. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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