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Anna Melisano vs Dione Barbosa

Red corner AnnaMelisanoSpartan Fitness MMA · Hometown (per Sherdog): Travelers Rest, South Carolina
VSSettled
Blue corner DioneBarbosa“The Witch”Kings MMA · Hometown (per Sherdog): Recife, Pernambuco
Women's Flyweight3 rounds18 Jul 2026
6-2
Record
10-4
−5 yr29
Age
34
5' 4"
Height
+2″5' 6"
+2″68″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Spartan Fitness MMA
Gym
Kings MMA
Travelers Rest, South Carolinahometown, per Sherdog
From
Recife, Pernambucohometown, 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
Dione Barbosa
56.3% confidentLOW
Method calledDEC 52%
Vs the market+6.3pp
Market had our pick at50%
The fight
Dione Barbosa
WIN✗
How it endedSUB
Round1 of 3
Clock4:04
Called it We called Dione Barbosa at 56.3% and Dione Barbosa 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

1 round of tape

Round 14:04 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 4:04
Anna Melisano2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 4BODY0%0 of 1LEGS50%1 of 1
Dione Barbosa5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 4BODY60%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 6
Sig.
strikes
5 of 7
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
3:31
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 2

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

Dione Barbosa

Round
1
Clock
4:04
Method
SUB

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: Kevin Nix.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Anna Melisano

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.47 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
5.61 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
44%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.10 / 15m

Dione Barbosa

2.47takedowns / 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 (3.42 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Flyweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was published.

Anna MelisanoDione BarbosaPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Anna Melisano vs Dione Barbosa — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Anna Melisano and Dione Barbosa from Jul 16 to Jul 18, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Anna Melisano moves from 34% to 16% and Dione Barbosa from 66% to 84%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was published before the window opened, not at that price.10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%Jul 16 14:00Jul 17 03:00Jul 17 17:00Jul 18 07:00Jul 18 21:00▲ our call: Dione Barbosa (LOW)16%84%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Dione Barbosa's implied chance moved up from 66% to 84% (+19.0pp). Our pick was published before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

This series stops at Jul 18 21:12Z — the point at which this bout’s own market began the move that ended in settlement. Our capture window is card-level and kept running through the fight, so what follows it in the raw file is the market collapsing live and then paying out at 1.00 / 0.00. That is a settlement, not price history: it is not drawn, and it is not counted in the figures below.

Our published call had Dione Barbosa at 56.3%. At the last price we captured before this bout’s market began to settle, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 84.5% — our number sat 28.2pp 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
SeriesOpenLowHighLast pre-fightMove
Anna Melisano — sportsbook consensus17.5%16.5%17.7%16.5%−1.0pp
Dione Barbosa — sportsbook consensus82.5%82.3%83.5%83.5%+1.0pp
Anna Melisano — Polymarket34.5%15.5%38.5%15.5%−19.0pp
Dione Barbosa — Polymarket65.5%61.5%84.5%84.5%+19.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 670 snapshots on file · window Jul 16 14:06–Jul 18 21:09Z · last capture Jul 18, 21:09Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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